Statement by Minister Selaković

29. Jun 2021.
It is completely inappropriate and shameless that the Member of the European Parliament, Viola von Cramon, speaks about a multiethnic society in Kosovo and Metohija, while being a guest of honor of the architects of the Albanian supremacy in our southern province.


Von Cramon, in a cynical way, went over the case of the only Serbian returnee in Djakovica, Dragica Gašić, who has been the target of attacks and death threats almost every day for the past month, and avoided to condemn those who endanger the safety of this brave Serbian woman.

The situation in Kosovo and Metohija cannot be improved with general messages in the style of "I want peace in the world", because this is a territory where ethnically motivated attacks on the Serbian and other non-Albanian population and facilities of the Serbian Orthodox Church take place almost every day.

The fact that since the beginning of this year, close to 70 incidents against Serbs and 15 attacks on the facilities of the Serbian Orthodox Church have been recorded in Kosovo and Metohija, testifies to the growing orgy of Albanian chauvinism on the ground, which Ms. von Cramon refuses to see and admit.

I remind the MEP that all cities in Kosovo and Metohija, except urban areas in the north of the province, are almost completely ethnically cleansed of Serbs and that the exodus of our people from their centuries-old hearths in Kosovo is one of the greatest crimes Europe has seen since the Second World War.

In 1981, there were 50,269 Serbs living in Pristina, in 2011 there were 430 of them. In Urosevac in 1981 there were 18,285 Serbs, in 2011 there were 32 of them. The number of Serbs in Gjilane in the same period decreased from 19,212 to 332, in Peć from 17,791 to 332, in Kosovska Kamenica from 14,813 to 1,554, in Prizren from 11,651 to 237, in Lipljan from 10,259 to 513, in Istok from 9,592 to 194, in Klina from 7,802 to 98, in Vitina from 8,369 to 113, in Vucitrn from 6,091 to 384, in Podujevo from 2,242 to 12, in Djakovica from 1,898 to 17.

Out of 437 places in Kosovo and Metohija where Serbs lived until 1999, 312 settlements were completely ethnically cleansed. Therefore, we are talking about more than 200,000 Serb refugees, who have never been given the opportunity to enjoy the "charms of a multiethnic society" in self-proclaimed Kosovo.

Viola von Cramon exceeded every measure of political and human decency by systematically working to relativize the horrors to which Serbs were and still are exposed in Kosovo and Metohija.