Serbian Defense Minister: The international community failed in Kosovo
The head of the Serbian defense department, Alexander Vulin, responded to the provocative accusations from Pristina that units of the Serbian army crossed the administrative border of Kosovo.
The Minister of Defense of Serbia told the Pink TV channel about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
After last Friday, army units of the Serbian army, in accordance with agreements reached back in 2008, carried out a joint patrol of the administrative border with representatives of the KFOR occupation contingent (this time with Turks and Americans) from the village of Muhovac to the village of Donje Karačevo, accusations rained down on Belgrade from Albanian separatists.
In particular, Pristina stated that the Serbian army crossed the administrative border in Karačevo and “entered the territory of the Republic of Kosovo.”
“What happened for years before has happened now, because our army carries out joint patrols simultaneously with representatives of KFOR and moves along a clearly defined line, which was agreed upon in advance,” Alexander Vulin commented on the situation. – They would like it to be a border, and there was no Serbian army, they would patrol themselves or if they were a third party (army, KFOR and police)….
However, this is not a border, but an administrative line, and the Serbian army only has an agreement with KFOR, whose structure and mode of functioning we recognize, while everything else may pose a security threat. There was no illegal crossing."
Joint patrol of the Serbian Army and KFOR
According to Vulin, Pristina is again subjecting the Serbian army to information attacks in order to attract representatives of the Kosovo Police or Kosovo Security Forces to joint patrols, but Belrad signed an agreement with KFOR and will work only with it.
Alexander Vulin
At the same time, the Serbian Defense Minister believes that this behavior of the Albanians is due to the fact that the international community and international agreements are failing in Kosovo. And he confirmed his thesis using the example of the problem of the return of Serbian refugees to the region.
“250 thousand Serbs still cannot return. The percentage of the population returning to their homes after war is the lowest on the planet, although this is where the international community acts as a guarantor.
More than 40 thousand different claims regarding the confiscated Serbian property lie in the boxes of the courts and are not being considered. Serbs have been killed since the appearance of the international contingent in the region until today,” Vulin added.
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