“All facts about the attack must be established. The perpetrators must be brought to justice,” Borrell said in a statement quoted by the Efe agency about the attacks that began this morning and which the Kosovo government attributes to a Serb armed group.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy said “more innocent lives are at risk” as a result of the ongoing hostilities and called for an “immediate stop” to these attacks.
The EU, Borrell recalled, has repeatedly called on all parties to stop the escalation of violence in northern Kosovo.
Borrell’s position has already been criticized by Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz, who called it “shameful” because it did not define the incidents as terrorism.
“Mr. Borrell, really. Some terrorists kill a police officer and you make an appeal to ‘all those involved’? Not a word of support for the police? Not even against the terrorists?”, the minister previously wrote on the social network X. Twitter responds to Borrell’s statement.
The minister wondered whether Borrell “also calls the terrorist attacks in Spain hostilities” and added: “What a shame! How can EU members continue to tolerate this cynicism?”
Tensions in northern Kosovo have increased since May, when Kosovo authorities decided to appoint Albanian mayors in four Serb-majority municipalities.
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti stated at a press conference that today’s attack was carried out by “at least thirty heavily armed people, professionals, both military and police,” according to local press.
“We condemn this criminal and terrorist attack,” the prime minister said.
Source: DN
