The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, stated this evening before the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in New York that creating unbearable living conditions for Serbs and expelling them from Kosovo is the only goal of the authorities in Pristina.
At the extraordinary session of the UN Security Council on the situation in Kosovo, scheduled at the request of Belgrade, Vučić said that the Pristina authorities are intensifying "systematic attacks" on the Serbian population.
"Such actions, in the absence of an appropriate reaction, can cause irreparable damage to the survival of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija," said Vučić.
Vučić said that Belgrade asked for a session of the UN Security Council because the activities of Pristina "are of such a nature that they can cause irreparable damage" in the period until the convening of the regular session of the UN Security Council on Kosovo at the end of April.
"The direct reason for submitting the request is the decision of the Central Bank of Kosovo, which prohibited transactions in dinars from February 1. This measure represents an attack on Serbs because their survival in Kosovo depends to a large extent on the dinar funds that come from the Serbian budget," he said.
He added that "a huge number of people" in the territory of Kosovo depend on dinar revenues from the Serbian budget and that the decision on the euro as the only means of payment in Kosovo "directly deprives a large number of people of their means of living".
"The euro is not a legal currency in Kosovo and Metohija, it is only treated as such, and the abolition of the dinar is aimed at expelling the Serbs," said Vučić.
Vucic also said that Pristina has "no arguments" when it claims that the cancellation of the dinar was undertaken to ensure the rule of law.
"Keep in mind that they use the term rule of law exclusively to harm Serbs and the Serbian Orthodox Church," said Vučić.
The President of Serbia said that the continued accusation of Serb returnees to Kosovo "for false war crimes" is a form of pressure, while "Albanians who are accused of clear ethnically motivated crimes against Serbs and their property" are released.
Vučić said that before the arrival of Aljbin Kurti at the head of the Kosovo government, there were 669 ethnically motivated attacks in Kosovo, and that this number has increased by 300 percent since then.
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