Petkovic: Brnabic welcomed in North Kosovo, Kurti snuck around

Kosovo and Metohija is the official name for what the Serbian authorities consider to be Serbia’s southern province.

“The success of Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic’s visit to our southern province is best proved by the fact that already on the following day, as quickly as possible, Albin Kurti ran to have his photo taken in the north of Kosovo and Metohija. Only, Ana Brnabic was enthusiastically welcomed by several thousand Serbs, while Kurti had to sneak around the north of our province, secretly and covertly, and the only ones who met him were ROSU members,” said Petkovic in a press release.

The Regional Operational Support Unit (ROSU) is part of the Kosovo police.

Petkovic said Kurti’s only intention is “to trigger tensions, provocations and instability, with an obsessive desire to film for social media.”

"There is no doubt that Kurti remembered well how the Serbian people unequivocally showed him that he had no place in the north of Kosovo and Metohija the last time he publicly tried to set foot in a Serbian environment. That is why he now has to sneak around and 'bravely' film, to convince himself that he really was in the north," said Petkovic.

He said it was a good thing Kurti watched Brnabic’s visit to North Kosovo because that was an opportunity for him “to learn how messages of peace, democracy and stability are sent and who the Serbs accept as their only Prime Minister.”

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Internal Affairs Minister Xhelal Svecla paid a visit to North Kosovo on Tuesday.