8. januar 2023 13:55
Vucic: KFOR has given negative response to request for return of Serbian troops
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BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday KFOR had given a negative response to Serbia's request for a return of its army and police troops to Kosovo-Metohija, and noted that the response had "accidentally" been delivered on Orthodox Christmas Eve.
"We all knew and expected that answer, I think I had also announced that somewhere... Of course, they said they believe there is no need for a return of the Serbian Armed Forces to the territory of Kosovo-Metohija, invoking (UN SC) Resolution 1244," Vucic said in an appearance on Pink TV.
He said that, however, KFOR had said it had its role under UN SC Resolution 1244 but had not invoked any part of the resolution to decline the request because "there is no such a thing."
"Someone smart enough compiled that for them, because they have no right to reject that request, they knew they have nothing to invoke and then they invoked a positive norm from their point of view - that they have the right and the obligation to protect order, and they made another unintentional 'error,'" he said.
In the same way they have always liked to humiliate the Serbs in the past, they delivered the response on Orthodox Christmas Eve, Vucic said.
"It would have been good if they had handed a positive response to us on Christmas Eve, because then it would have made sense, rather than a negative one before Christmas, because then you know it is no coincidence. They made a mistake, with a clear political connotation, and said they were watching closely the developments in the north (of Kosovo-Metohija), while just two hours earlier, shots were fired at Serb boys, which everyone tried to hide. The shots were fired in the south," Vucic said.
KFOR's job is not to worry about barricades in the north, but to look after the security of Serbs and everyone else in Kosovo-Metohija across Kosovo-Metohija, he said.
"That very afternoon, it happened in the south of Kosovo-Metohija, and they mentioned only the north," he added.
