Kosovo - Serbia relations | Ipse by Context

Aleksandar Vucic

Inserted 10 months ago

“We are at the crossroads whether we will have peace or not … and there's one man in the Balkans who wants to incite conflicts at any cost - and that is Albin Kurti.”

Aljazeera

Serbian president

14 Jun 2023 2 2

Aleksandar Vucic

Inserted 1 year ago

“The removal of barricades will begin. This is not a simple process, and can't be done in two hours, as some imagined. But within 24 to 48 hours the barricades will be removed. But distrust is not removed. Those who are playing with [the] very existence of Serbs in Kosovo must know that, same like we didn't allow it now, we will not allow it in the future as well.”

Aljazeera

Serbian president

28 Dec 2022 1 2

Skender Perteshi

Inserted 1 year ago

“The idea of Serbia and Russia together is to try to make conflicts and crisis anywhere where the West has a role and to increase this kind of instability in the region to increase the influence of Russia and Serbia in the region.”

Aljazeera

Academic at the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies

28 Dec 2022 3 3

Xhelal Svecla

Inserted 1 year ago

“It is precisely Serbia, influenced by Russia, that has raised a state of military readiness and that is ordering the erection of new barricades, in order to justify and protect the criminal groups that terrorize.”

Aljazeera

Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo

27 Dec 2022 2 3

Milos Vucevic

Inserted 1 year ago

“Serbia's president … ordered the Serbian army to be on the highest level of combat readiness, that is to the level of the use of armed force.”

Aljazeera

Serbia’s Defence Minister

26 Dec 2022 2 2

Albin Kurti

Inserted 1 year ago

“Our worry [is] that removal of these barricades cannot exclude casualties. And that's why we want to be as careful as possible to make sure that there will be no destabilisation and relative peace and security will be in place. However, we cannot allow this violation of lawfulness and constitutionality for ever. So, yeah, this must end, sooner the better. The EU-US all agree that barricades should be removed. But they are also worried how this might be used and abused by Belgrade. I think that the worry of our western partners and friends is the links of Belgrade with Moscow. We do not know how they could be rendered operative in case of rising of tensions, towards escalation in the north. I think that their major concern is precisely this: now that Russia got severely wounded in Ukraine after its invasion and aggression, they have interest in spillover. They have interest in outsourcing their war-mongering drive to the Balkans where they have a client who's in Belgrade.”

Theguardian

Kosovo Prime Minister

20 Dec 2022 7 3

Besnik Bislimi

Inserted 1 year ago

“The intensity of hybrid attacks by Serbia and Russia against Kosovo has significantly increased… There was a Russia- Serbia plan to burn the Jarinje crossing point yesterday but it was prevented by Kosovo institutions in cooperation with international partners, particularly the Americans.”

Balkaninsight

Kosovo’s deputy prime minister in charge of dialogue with Serbia

19 Dec 2022 3 2

Albin Kurti

Inserted 1 year ago

“The barricades in the north will not be tolerated for too long. I cannot say it is a civic protest when there are armed people there [at the barricades] who want to return Kosovo to 1999 and who hold up slogans and photos of despotic [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.”

Balkaninsight

Kosovo Prime Minister

19 Dec 2022 3 2

Tim Judah

Inserted 1 year ago

“I am sure that the Russians are very happy and encouraging Serbia to take the stance that it is at the moment because clearly it is in its interests to try and make trouble in another part of the continent and distract Western attention from Ukraine. But this issue and the frequent flare-ups of tension long predate the Ukraine war so there is no reason to assume what we have seen recently would not be happening regardless. The only difference is that Ukraine has given an added impetus to the EU and US to try and resolve the Serbia-Kosovo issue, which is why we have seen so much diplomatic activity over the last few months.”

Aljazeera

Special correspondent for The Economist magazine

15 Dec 2022 5 10

John Feffer

Inserted 1 year ago

“Although Serbia hasn't imposed sanctions, it also didn't recognise the breakaway regions, and Vucic was unhappy with Putin's explicit use of Kosovo as a precedent to justify the independent status of the Donbas. Serbia is also dependent on EU assistance, so that serves as a serious brake on any steps Belgrade takes toward Kosovo.”

Aljazeera

Director of Foreign Policy in Focus

15 Dec 2022 6 5

Engjellushe Morina

Inserted 1 year ago

“I don't see a full blown-out armed conflict between Kosovo and Serbia for a very simple reason, NATO.”

Aljazeera

Senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations

15 Dec 2022 2 5

Josep Borrell

Inserted 1 year ago

“We have a deal. Under the EU-facilitated Dialogue, Serbia agreed to abolish entry/exit documents for Kosovo ID holders and Kosovo agreed to not introduce them for Serbian ID holders. Kosovo Serbs, as well as all other citizens, will be able to travel freely between Kosovo & Serbia using their ID cards. The EU just received guarantees from PM [Albin] Kurti to this end.”

Aljazeera

27 Aug 2022 4 3

Josep Borrell

Inserted 2 years ago

“Spoke to Albin Kurti and Aleksandar Vucic yesterday regarding the collection of votes in Kosovo for Sunday's constitutional referendum in Serbia. Collection of votes in the past has taken place through facilitation of the OSCE. People should be able to exercise their right to vote.”

Twitter

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

13 Jan 2022 6 2

Aleksandar Vucic

Inserted 2 years ago

“There would be greater and far-reaching consequences than expected if polling stations were not opened in Kosovo.”

Rferl

Serbian president

12 Jan 2022 2 2

Albin Kurti

Inserted 2 years ago

“A referendum in the sovereign territory of another state is not a practice accepted by any democratic country. Serbs in Kosovo with dual citizenship can vote in Serbia's referendum by mail or in the liaison office in Pristina.”

Rferl

Kosovo Prime Minister

12 Jan 2022 4 2

Gasper Dovzan

Inserted 2 years ago

“The Serbian government prioritized EU-related reforms and delivered on a number of important commitments, in particular on taxation and energy. But further efforts are needed. Serbia's progress on the rule of law and the normalization of relations with Kosovo remains essential and will continue to determine the overall pace of the negotiations.”

Rferl

State secretary at the Slovenian Foreign Ministry

14 Dec 2021 3 5

Maja Bjelos

Inserted 2 years ago

“Kosovo leadership should undertake the dialogue with Kosovo Serbs in order to counterbalance the leverage Belgrade has over them. They need to be shown that they are valuable and involved in the decision-making. Nobody worked on building the national consensus prior to reaching previous agreements. I advocate for more openness. We are witnessing a leadership crisis. We are shout out for this process, we don't own this process and feel that this Dialogue is imposed. In Serbia, the process has been captured by one person.”

Europeanwesternbalkans

Researcher for the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP)

29 Oct 2021 3 2

Aleksandar Vucic

Inserted 2 years ago

“Do not react to non-violence, but if they [Kosovo authorities] start violence, you protect your people and we will be with you. Just keep in mind what the price is that we will all have to pay for that, and why my request is to try to avoid it, and if they [Kosovo authorities] start and continue shooting our people, then we really won't have a choice.”

Balkaninsight

Serbian president

13 Oct 2021 2 2

Albin Kurti

Inserted 2 years ago

“We predicted there would be a reaction, but not the reaction that would see MiG-29 fighter jets in the air and T-72 tanks at our border and then armoured vehicles and military combat vehicles. These were not predicted.”

Theguardian

Kosovo Prime Minister

02 Oct 2021 3 2

Aleksandar Vucic

Inserted 2 years ago

“Any kind of destabilization, problems even if they aren't big, create a huge problem for all of us in terms of attracting investors and the country's image. It's in our interest to try to advance our economy and work on rule of law.”

Europeanwesternbalkans

Serbia's President

30 Sep 2021 3 3

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“We are at the crossroads whether we will have peace or not … and there's one man in the Balkans who wants to incite conflicts at any cost - and that is Albin Kurti.”

“The idea of Serbia and Russia together is to try to make conflicts and crisis anywhere where the West has a role and to increase this kind of instability in the region to increase the influence of Russia and Serbia in the region.”

“It is precisely Serbia, influenced by Russia, that has raised a state of military readiness and that is ordering the erection of new barricades, in order to justify and protect the criminal groups that terrorize.”

“Serbia's president … ordered the Serbian army to be on the highest level of combat readiness, that is to the level of the use of armed force.”

“The intensity of hybrid attacks by Serbia and Russia against Kosovo has significantly increased… There was a Russia- Serbia plan to burn the Jarinje crossing point yesterday but it was prevented by Kosovo institutions in cooperation with international partners, particularly the Americans.”

“The barricades in the north will not be tolerated for too long. I cannot say it is a civic protest when there are armed people there [at the barricades] who want to return Kosovo to 1999 and who hold up slogans and photos of despotic [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.”

“I don't see a full blown-out armed conflict between Kosovo and Serbia for a very simple reason, NATO.”

“Spoke to Albin Kurti and Aleksandar Vucic yesterday regarding the collection of votes in Kosovo for Sunday's constitutional referendum in Serbia. Collection of votes in the past has taken place through facilitation of the OSCE. People should be able to exercise their right to vote.”

“There would be greater and far-reaching consequences than expected if polling stations were not opened in Kosovo.”

“A referendum in the sovereign territory of another state is not a practice accepted by any democratic country. Serbs in Kosovo with dual citizenship can vote in Serbia's referendum by mail or in the liaison office in Pristina.”

“We predicted there would be a reaction, but not the reaction that would see MiG-29 fighter jets in the air and T-72 tanks at our border and then armoured vehicles and military combat vehicles. These were not predicted.”

“Any kind of destabilization, problems even if they aren't big, create a huge problem for all of us in terms of attracting investors and the country's image. It's in our interest to try to advance our economy and work on rule of law.”

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