{"id":21091,"date":"2021-09-27T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T08:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=21091"},"modified":"2021-09-27T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T08:30:30","slug":"serbia-wont-tolerate-any-acts-of-violence-against-serbs-in-kosovo-warns-vucic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/serbia-wont-tolerate-any-acts-of-violence-against-serbs-in-kosovo-warns-vucic\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia won\u2019t tolerate any acts of violence against Serbs in Kosovo, warns Vucic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serbia won\u2019t tolerate any violence or persecution of its Serbian population in Kosovo.<\/p>\n

These were the latest remarks made by Serbian president, Aleksandar Vucic, who also directed these statement at the General Secretary of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg.<\/p>\n

\u201c [I have told him that] We will be waiting for a reaction from NATO, for 24 hours, and if the pogrom against our people continues after that, Serbia will react and won\u2019t allow for what happened in 1995 and 2004 to repeat,\u201d \u2013 said Vucic on Pink TV.<\/p>\n

Vucic used the Slavic word \u2018pogrom\u2019 in his rhetoric, which implies a \u2018violent campaign of forcefully displacing ethnic or religious groups, particularly used in the 19th<\/sup> and 20th<\/sup> centuries, against the Hebrew population.<\/p>\n

In his statement, the Serbian president also underscored that \u201cSerbia\u2019s army hasn\u2019t entered Kosovo\u2019s territory because according to their agreement, it doesn\u2019t have the right to\u201d. He also added that \u201cSerbia doesn\u2019t want to have to take its troops into Kosovo because it wants to resolve everything in peace\u201d.<\/p>\n

In regards to the deployment of various forces at Serbia\u2019s border with Kosovo, Vucic claimed that this only happened in response to Kosovo\u2019s deployment of its special forces at the northern communes. He called this an indicator that \u201cSerbia won\u2019t allow to be humiliated\u201d.<\/p>\n

This last week, tensions have escalated between Kosovo-Serbia, following the implementation of the reciprocity principle on Serbian license plates by Kosovo\u2019s PM Albin Kurti.<\/p>\n

This principle involves mandating all Serbian drivers to replace their license plates with a temporary set (carrying the Republic of Kosovo acronym RKS) upon entering Kosovo \u2013 the same thing has been applied by Serbia to all Kosovar drivers since 2011, yet PM Kurti\u2019s decision do the same i.e. apply the principle of reciprocity, has caused the recent commotion.<\/p>\n

Faced with this situation, Serbia is refusing to continue the dialogue, whereas Kosovo has proposed that both countries remove these requirements.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, NATO and the EU have been making repeated calls for a lowering of tensions and a return to the dialogue process.<\/p>\n

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