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Pristina delegation pelts bottle at Serbian official at CEFTA meeting in Vlore 28 Jun 2019 21:05 3 minutes _____ TIRANA - A CEFTA meeting in Vlore, Albania at deputy ministerial level was cut short on Friday after members of the Pristina delegation threw a bottle at Serbian delegation head Ivan Markovic. Speaking to Tanjug by phone, Markovic said the meeting - aimed at recapping what had been done in the first half of the year and at preparing contributions for next week's meeting in Poznan - had proceeded quite normally until addressed by the Pristina delegation. The head of the Pristina delegation then began to make political statements and to provoke, and said Serbia was imposing non-tariff barriers on the "state of Kosovo", thwarting its development and trade, Markovic said. "Unfortunately, after that address, the chair of the meeting, which was Albania in this case, failed to react in an adequate manner so, as head of our delegation, I had to address the meeting and ask that such provocations not be used at a meeting within the CEFTA framework," Markovic said. In line with the state policy, Markovic said Kosovo-Metohija is an integral part of Serbia. In response, members of the Pristina delegation attacked the Serbian delegation, shouting that Kosovo was a republic and an independent state, and that it had won that status "in the holy war in 1999." "They found a bottle that stood on the table and threw it in my direction. It hit me, but before it reached me, the bottle flew by the head of the Moldovan delegation leader and by a female colleague from our delegation," Markovic added. Immediately afterwards, the members of the Pristina delegation rushed out of the room and the meeting was cut short, he said. Markovic promptly requested of the chairperson that the members of the Pristina delegation be banned from returning to the room and removed from the hotel where the meeting was held, and the request was granted. Photo Tanjug/D. Kujundzic, file -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/senet. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/senet/00fe01d52e87%24cdb7b8d0%2469272a70%24%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
