of balkan bloodshed? prime minister albin kurti, welcome to hardtalk. welcome to pristina. and thank you for having me. well, it s a great pleasure to be in your office, mr prime minister, how close has kosovo come to seeing a renewal of conflict in the last few months? it has been very heavy because the two extremist terrorist organisations which are being financed by serbia and from where they also receive their orders, civil protection and the northern brigade have been very active and first intimidating serbs and serbian candidates who would like to vote and run in elections. and second, in attacking our police. journalist but first and foremost, nato s soldiers on 29th of may. you ve chosen in that answer to pile all of the blame on your serbian minority population. that is not the way the international community sees things right now. i never blame serbian minority population. they are 4% of population in kosovo. less than half of them live north of river ibar. but i wa
the eu envoy responsible for trying to normalise the situation here in kosovo, he had a discussion with you just a couple of days ago. he described that discussion is long, frank and open and he stressed to you to you the urgent need for de escalation. are you prepared to take actions to de escalate the tension? of course, and i have offered to have early elections in the four northern municipalities as soon as possible, and to that end, we have to have rule of law in place, so we have a fair and open campaign, prior to free and democratic elections. the united states and your european allies, certainly the united kingdom, asked you not to do that. you didn t seek their advice? you just did it. why? on 23rd ofjune, minister
actions to de escalate the tension? of course, and i have offered to have early elections in the four northern municipalities as soon as possible, and to that end, we have to have rule of law in place, so we have a fair and open campaign, prior to free and democratic elections. the united states and your european allies, certainly the united kingdom, asked you not to do that. you didn t seek their advice? you just did it. why? on 23rd ofjune, minister for internal affairs, xhelal svecla, together with our director of police, gazmend xoxha, they made a press conference where they have exposed all the ammunition and armaments, including rocket launchers, they have confiscated, in a car with belgrade car plates belonging to this northern brigade, but which actually was also belonging to the serbia railways,
northern municipalities as soon as possible, and to that end, we have to have rule of law in place, so we have a fair and open campaign, prior to free and democratic elections. the united states and your european allies, certainly the united kingdom, asked you not to do that. you didn t seek their advice. you just did it. why? on 23rd ofjune, minister for internal affairs, xhelal svecla, together with our director of police, gazmend xoxha, they made a press conference where they have exposed all the ammunition and armaments, including rocket launchers, they have confiscated, in a car with belgrade car plates belonging to this northern brigade, but which actually was also belonging to the serbia railways, a publicly owned enterprise in serbia. at that press conference, the minister of internal affairs