French MEP's strong message: Kosovo is a part of Serbia to me, pity that NATO 
did police work


According to him, in the territory where citizens of Serb nationality are 
majority, municipal authorities can only be representatives of the majority 
population


Photo: Tanjug/AP/Bojan Slavkovic

French member of the European Parliament (MEP) Thierry Mariani says that it is 
time for the situation in the north of Kosovo 
<https://www.telegraf.rs/teme/kosovo-and-metohija>  and Metohija to calm down 
and pointed out that it is necessary to "remember how it all started," reports 
Tanjug.

 

He told the agency that the reality is that it all started when the Pristina 
authorities wanted to forcibly appoint mayors who had no legitimacy.

"I regret the fact that NATO forces were engaged in that territory and used to 
perform police work on behalf of the government in Pristina. Now is the time 
for the situation to calm down," said Mariani and reminded that on June 12, the 
prime minister of Pristina's provisional institutions, Allbin Kurti, accepted 
to hold new elections.

According to him, in the territory where citizens of Serb nationality are 
majority, municipal authorities can only be representatives of the majority 
population.

"In the elections that were boycotted by the Serbs, the mayors who were elected 
by the votes of less than 5 percent of the electorate are not legitimate 
representatives," said Mariani and repeated that he regrets that the NATO 
forces engaged in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija were used by Pristina to 
forcibly "enthrone" illegitimate municipal leaders.

Commenting on yesterday's address of the president of the provisional 
institutions of Pristina, Vjosa Osmani, in the European Parliament, he stressed 
that he did not listen to it directly, because he only follows the speeches 
given by heads of state in that way.

"For me, Kosovo is a part of Serbia, not an independent state," he said.

He reminded that numerous EU member states - Cyprus, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, 
Greece - did not recognize Kosovo as independent.

"In my opinion, allowing Kosovo to join the European Union would be a 
destabilizing factor and a path to opening problems with Albania. I will 
persist in my position and the position of my party that we do not agree that 
this territory should join the European Union," said French MEP Mariani.

(Telegraf.rs)

 

https://www.telegraf.rs/english/3696999-french-mep-to-me-kosovo-is-a-part-of-serbia

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