As for our position for the first time, at least over the last ten years, opposing a statement issued by the European Union’s foreign policy, this position has to do with the fact that the EU statement  is a statement, which does not in itself have a problem, as it addresses everything already said before by the High Representative Joseph Borrell regarding Kosovo’s obligations to the dialogue, but there is a big problem that does not correspond to the reality of the last days , and as such we find it impossible to align with the European Union unless a second statement is issued, addressing the concern of the last few days, the tragedy where a police officer of the Republic of Kosovo was killed by a criminal gang that was clearly invested in exercising terror in northern Kosovo, which was followed by the decision to declare a national day of mourning in Belgrade.

For us, this is unacceptable, unwarranted, it is even reprehensible, because it is not European and at the same time it is the worst signal that Serbia could send at this moment to the entire region and Europe, and we have requested that the European Union, the entire Euro-Atlantic community should sound the alarm at the highest level, the democratic alarm at the highest level and use all available means to respond accordingly to this completely unacceptable message that comes from the declaration of national mourning in Belgrade and as long as there is not a second statement from the European Union to deliver a fair judgment on the last days, we will not align with the initial statement.

Once the second statement is released and if the second statement sends across what we ask for, then we have no problem aligning with the first statement because regardless of what Serbia does, which is what we have to do with Serbia, we do not budge an inch from all the requirements of the European Union and the Euro-Atlantic community for Kosovo, and at this point we are 100% aligned with the European Union and the Euro-Atlantic community, but I repeat, this is the moment to condemn out loud what happened in the north of Kosovo and what then ensued in Belgrade with the decision to declare three days of national mourning that glorifies the commitment of a criminal gang to cause terror in the north of Kosovo.