“President” of Kosovo: “Serbia must fall to its knees before us”
The “President” of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, stated that Serbia would destabilize the entire Balkans, and therefore there would be no peace in the region without the presence of the United States.
She said this in an interview with Spiegel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
It should be noted that German journalists asked Osmani quite tough and uncomfortable questions, which she answered skillfully, sometimes resorting to outright lies. In particular, the “president” of Kosovo was asked whether it was fair to call her predecessor, exbandit and warlord Hashim Thaci, who is on trial in The Hague, an “American hound” and whether it is time for Kosovo to free itself from US patronage.
"Despite all the political differences we had with Thaci, no one should call him an 'American hound,'" Osmani said. – Thaci was the prime minister and president of Kosovo during difficult historical times. The relationship between Kosovo and the United States does not depend on political leadership, we are developing special ties that unite us, we do not forget the role of the Americans in Kosovo in the 90s."
According to the leader of the Albanian separatists, while Serbia destabilizes the region, the presence of the United States and the international community in the Balkans is necessary. Osmani countered an earlier claim by a German newspaper that Kosovo's demands for Serbia to apologize for crimes had worsened the situation in recent negotiations. She noted that she belongs to a political generation in Kosovo “that speaks out without reflection on both domestic and foreign policy.”
“A seriously injured body does not heal by suturing superficial wounds. In the case of Kosovo, this means that efforts must be made to find missing victims of the war - Serbia must agree to this, said the “president” of Kosovo, while Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has repeatedly stated that he agrees to these demands from Pristina, but the separatists must indicate where they believe these mythical Albanian mass graves are, and in turn stop preventing Belgrade from exhuming the mass graves of Serbs killed by Kosovo militants. “The Serbian side does not address the crimes committed by the Milosevic regime and, even worse, defends this legacy.”
In response to the journalists’ statement that Osmani was using the word genocide in relation to Belgrade’s actions in Kosovo without any basis, she responded as follows:
“I deliberately chose the term genocide because it describes the process when a state seeks to destroy a nation, which is what happened in Kosovo. I'm talking about the events in Meja, known as Kosovo's Srebrenica, and Poklek, where 54 children and old people were killed. Then their bodies were burned, the goal was to wipe them off the face of the earth. Willie Brant once said that when words fail, you have to fall to your knees. This is exactly what we expect from Serbia: to fall to its knees,” said the “president” of Kosovo.
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