New barricades in Mitrovica, West blackmailing Belgrade by demanding barricades in Kosovo be removed

1. The West is blackmailing Serbia by means of violence from Kosovars, demanding that barricades be removed in northern Kosovo and Metohija, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday in a joint address to the press with Patriarch of Serbia Porfirije.

"As if they have any right, they come from the West and threaten us, demanding that the barricades be removed. They say: ‘Time is running out, if you don’t do it, we will pit [Prime Minister of the unrecognized republic of Kosovo Albin] Kurti on you and he will do what we want.’ It is important to know that all you want is conflict, you want Serbs to be killed because it is more important for you to acknowledge the so-called sovereignty of the so-called Kosovo than how many Serbs are killed. I put it in simple terms so that everyone can see the truth," Vucic said.

According to the Serbian president, the Serbs blocked only those roads that are not used by anyone but them. He also recalled that the Pristina authorities had deceived the Serbs in Kosovo several times when they promised to establish a Community of Serb Municipalities but denied them the right to vote at referendums and elections, when they seized the building of election commissions and arrested policemen of Serb nationality. The president demanded the signature of NATO’s former Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen under the Brussels agreements be respected. Under these agreements, Kosovo can have no army, but they are establishing one, he added.

"All this is being done to oust the Serbs from northern Kosovo and Metohija. We are working with international representatives - with EU Special Miroslav Lajcak, with US Special Envoy Gabriel Escobar, with all others, we are using all resources, we are sparing no efforts to preserve peace. And these hysterical threats - ‘your time is running out,’ "Kurti will attack you,’ "Hurry up, Kurti will attack tomorrow’ - shame on you all, liars!" Vucic said.
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*2. Vucic met with Patriarch Porfirije to discuss the situation in Kosovo and Metohija after Pristina had banned the Patriarch from entering Kosovo ahead of Christmas.*
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3. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has accused the international community of escalating the conflict in Kosovo and Metohija.

"I think that yesterday’s ban to enter Kosovo and Metohija that the Pristina authorities issued to Patriarch of Serbia Porfirije and their hindering his visit to our sacred place - the Pec Patriarchate monastery - openly shows who organized it. The Pristina regime is only partially responsible for it," he said on Tuesday after a meeting with the Patriarch.

"It was enough to merely look at reports of those who had been announcing the discussion of what Pristina did for the whole day. Why should anyone be so insistent on removing the barricades? I will tell you why - because they want to oust the Serbs from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, because according to them, it is the only way to resolve the problem. I mean the Albanians from Pristina, some of the international community," he said, adding that he was "embarrassed to read" the EU’s statement.
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[https://www.kaos.gr/2022/12/vucic-blames-international-community.html]
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[https://www.elethos.gr/2022/12/serbias-army-ready-to-defend-serbs-in.html]
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[https://youtu.be/sRwwVyyQ6Xs]
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