{"id":21106,"date":"2021-09-27T12:10:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T10:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=21106"},"modified":"2021-09-27T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T10:13:06","slug":"rama-calls-serbias-military-tactics-unfair-and-theatrical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/rama-calls-serbias-military-tactics-unfair-and-theatrical\/","title":{"rendered":"Rama calls Serbia\u2019s military tactics ‘unfair and theatrical\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Albanian PM, Edi Rama said that Serbia\u2019s recent military actions at their border with Kosovo resemble \u2018theatrical manoeuvers that elicit vandal nationalism\u2019.<\/p>\n

During a joint press conference with his homolog in Kosovo, Albin Kurti, PM Rama considered Serbia\u2019s reaction unfair, by emphasizing that Kosovo has simply asked to implement an arrangement of \u201creciprocity that had been previously agreed upon\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose [military] maneuvers don\u2019t protect Serbian citizens in northern Kosovo, as is being alleged [\u2026] Serbian citizens are living their lives, unthreatened by anyone. In fact, their electricity bills are covered for, something that is completely unprecedented in the rest of the Balkans or anywhere in Europe,\u201d \u2013 argued Rama.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese maneuvers only serve to revive the old shadow of the past while also provoking a vandal nationalism of the arsonists of government offices, whose only role in the first place, is to serve Serbian citizens, who aren\u2019t victims of some kind of state-imposed repression or ethnic persecution \u2013 on the contrary, they are hostages of the constant stagnation of the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue,\u201d \u2013 continued the Albanian PM.<\/p>\n

In addition, Rama emphasized that \u201cKosovo is right, and that\u2019s that!\u201d while criticizing the way that Serbia\u2019s president, Aleksandar Vucic has turned the issue of license plates into a \u201cconflictual commonplace\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSerbia has no right to turn the issue of vehicle license plates for every-day use into a conflictual every-day thing, where he is giving the fly the configuration of a bull, as if the Government of Kosovo announced some kind of war, when in fact all they asked for, was the implementation of a previously reciprocally arranged agreement,\u201d \u2013 added Rama.<\/p>\n

Albania\u2019s PM also said that Tirana\u2019s official stance is clear \u2013 the sides should resolve this matter through dialogue and that this recent occurrence has repositioned Kosovo within the dialogue, granting it its rightful equal status.<\/p>\n

In turn, Rama also suggested that the engagement of Kosovo\u2019s Special Forces \u201cbe carefully considered\u201d so that it doesn\u2019t turn into an issue between Kosovo and its international partners.<\/p>\n

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