Petkovic: Kurti’s most open threat to date

Kurti said that 500 police officers and 600 Kosovo Security Forces troops would be recruited in 2024 and added that no one will stop them in the north or the south. Petkovic said that his statement shows “the face of a war chief” who has made the most open threat to the Kosovo Serbs ever.

“The additional police and paramilitary forces Kurti intends to engage will not serve as a deterent for any outside threats because those threats do not exist. This is about strengthening the formations used to intimidate and terrorize the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija with the aim of ethnically cleansing them,” Petkovic said in a written statement.

Petkovic said that the Kosovo police and Security Forces have no business in Serb-majority communities because the Serbs are in charging of keeping law and order in those communities under the Brussels Agreement, the principles for the Community of Serbs Municipalities (CSM) and international guarantees.

He said Kurti’s announcement is a direct denial of the essence of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and accused the Kosovo Prime Minister of solving unemployment problems by giving young Albanians firearms.