Serbian President Aleksandr Vucic (Photo: Milos Miskov/AFP/Profimedia)
Serbia “unequivocally denies any involvement” in the attack on a crucial channel in Kosovo and denounces “groundless, irresponsible and worrying accusations,” Serbian President Aleksandr Vucic said Saturday, according to AFP and Agerpres.
These “unfounded allegations aim to denigrate Serbia’s reputation and sabotage efforts to promote peace and stability in the region,” Vucic said in a statement and video message posted on his Instagram account.
Kosovo’s prime minister, Albin Kurti, accused Serbia of being behind the attack against the Ibar-Lepenac channel in the north of Kosovoessential for the water supply of hundreds of thousands of inhabitants and for the cooling of two thermal power stations, while the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Marko Djuric, said that the “regime” of the First Minister of Kosovo could be “potentially”. involved”.
Friday’s blast heightened tensions between Serbia and ethnic-Albanian-majority Kosovo, which unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, nearly a decade after a guerrilla uprising against the government in Belgrade. Serbia does not recognize the independence of Kosovo.
