The President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, said tonight at the United Nations Security Council session in New York that "Serbia is trying to present itself as a victim rather than an aggressor."
Osmani's presentation began by listing the consequences of the war in Kosovo in 1998-1999. and mentioned that there were more than 13.000 victims of that war, of whom, according to her, many were children and the elderly, and underlined that the number of children killed in Kosovo, in relation to the number of inhabitants, was more than in any other war in the former Yugoslavia.
"What we heard from Serbia today is the expansion of efforts to promote that act of aggression. On the day of the attack, the institutions of Kosovo maintained contact with the international presence. We will continue to cooperate with our allies in order to oppose such acts and prevent them from happening again." Osmani said.
She also spoke about the victims of sexual violence who, in her words, chose not only to survive, but also to try to live, and added that this is the history of Kosovo.
"We started from scratch to build our lives, to build a future where all people, regardless of ethnicity, can live without fear, without discrimination," said Osmani.
The President of Kosovo said that Kosovo's determination is to go forward, not back.
"I am here to reaffirm that all the institutions of Kosovo do not allow the hard-won freedom that we have gained together with democracies from all over the world to go back, because the independent and sovereign Republic of Kosovo is the most successful story in the history of mankind," Osmani said.
She specifically referred to, as she said, "the attack by a Serbian paramilitary terrorist group supported by Serbia in Banjska, near Zvečana" on September 24.
"On that day, the Republic of Kosovo was the target of an act of aggression by Serbian terrorist and paramilitary groups," said Osmani.
She asked the UN Security Council for "substantial guarantees within the Euro-Atlantic framework".
"Furthermore, increasing security on Kosovo's borders with Serbia, adopting strict measures against Serbia as requested - this would mean a commitment to preserving peace and security in the entire region and on the entire European continent, it would mean that democracy does not remain silent in the face of autocratic regimes," she said. is the Ottomans.
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