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From the explosion in Zubin Potok to the attack in Banjska, Prime Minister Albin Kurti explains the discussions from the meeting with O'Brien
2024-12-04 14:40:12 / KOSOVA
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, met in Brussels with the US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, James O'Brien, with whom he discussed the November 29 attack on the Ibër-Lepenci water channel in Zubin Potok.
Kurti, according to the media release, shared with the senior American official details about the attack on Kosovo's critical infrastructure.
"The attack of November 29 was an attack on the civilian population, as through it there was a risk that more than half of the country's population would be left without electricity and without water," said Kurti.
The attack in Zubin Potok's Varraghe has been condemned by the United States and the American ambassador in Pristina, Jeff Hovenier, stated a few days ago that despite the fact that it is still too early to know the culprit, at this stage "no group or state can be excluded".
Kosovo has blamed Serbia for the attack, but Belgrade has denied involvement and condemned it.
Kurti told O'Brien that the attack in Zubin Potok was the second attack "on a large scale against national security, after the paramilitary attack on September 24, 2023 in Banjska, which aimed to annex the north of the country and where a sergeant was killed of the Kosovo Police, and the biggest and most serious attack on critical infrastructure, which was aimed at interrupting or hindering essential services, such as electricity, water and telecommunications, and disorder of social, civic, economic and institutional life".
The Ibër-Lepenc Canal supplies water from Lake Ujman to the entire north of Kosovo, the regions of Mitrovica, Pristina and its surroundings, as well as the Kosovo Energy Corporation for cooling its thermal power plants.
Speaking about the attack in Banjska, for which Kosovo blames Serbia, Kurti said that it is important to "arrest and extradite Millan Radoicic", who, according to him, "continues to pose a risk to the security of the country and the region for as long as who roams freely in Serbia and has the support of the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, and the state apparatus there."
Radoicic, the former vice-president of Lista Serbe, the main Serbian party in Kosovo that has the support of Belgrade, has claimed responsibility for the attack in September last year.
On September 11, 2024, the Special Prosecutor's Office of Kosovo filed an indictment against 45 people, including Radoicic, who are accused of terrorism, financing of terrorism and other serious criminal offenses, but only three of them are in Kosovo.
Radoicic is blacklisted by the United States and the United Kingdom for links to international organized crime and corruption.
In Kosovo, he is also linked to the murder of a Serbian opposition politician, as well as the intimidation of witnesses in a court case over some illegal construction.
The judicial authorities in Serbia, a country that is conducting investigations into the attack in Banjska - have said that a decision will soon be made on whether or not to file an indictment against Radoicic regarding the armed attack in Banjska of Zvecan./ REL
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