Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić’s complaint that he has been unable to enter Kosovo for years without Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s approval has prompted a response from Vetëvendosje Movement MP Agim Bahtiri.
In a Facebook post, Bahtiri mocked the statement, contrasting the current circumstances with a time when, he said, Belgrade directly influenced Kosovo’s institutions and developments in the country. His response also included criticism of the opposition and some journalists, Bota sot reports.
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The MP sarcastically described Vučić’s complaint that he and his family members were being denied entry to Kosovo as painful for the Serbian president. According to Bahtiri, Kosovo’s opposition and several people he calls pseudo-journalists share this concern.
Urging people to consider the scale of this historic change, Bahtiri recalled that Serbia once determined who could move around Kosovo. He said Belgrade maintained parallel structures in municipalities within the state of Kosovo.
According to him, at that time, every decision concerning the north depended on taking Serbia’s wishes into account, because Kosovo’s politicians at the time did not want to upset Serbian politicians.
In contrast to that past, Bahtiri continued, Serbia’s president now voices dissatisfaction because he cannot enter Kosovo. He described this as a shift from a period when Serbia imposed the rules in Kosovo to a time when, as he put it, it cannot even access its own territory without permission, let alone set the rules.
Bahtiri attributed this change in the reality of Kosovo’s statehood to Albin Kurti’s government. He stressed that everyone should understand that freedom was not won only for Kosovo to be forced to seek approval to be master in its own home.
In closing, the MP emphasized that Kosovo is no longer what it once was and that Vučić, too, must understand this.
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