“The EU treats Serbia like a spoiled child”

In an interview with the Associated Press, Osmani said that he believes Brussels has not learned from past mistakes and treats Serbia as a “spoiled child.”

“We should receive the same treatment during the dialogue. If that happens, it will be the way to a successful dialogue in the future,” said Osmani, Speaker of the Kosovo Assembly.

The US agency recalls that the EU has been mediating the negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo since 2011, adding that since then only some of the more than 30 agreements signed through dialogue have been implemented.

Osmani told the AP that Kosovo is setting a world precedent by having its highest officials go to court voluntarily, while Serbia, “whose regime killed civilians, many of whom were young children, is not doing the same.”

“They deny all the horrible crimes that they committed in Yugoslavia, but especially in Kosovo,” during the 1990s, Osmani said.

Osmani, 38, became the interim president of Kosovo on November 5 after former head of state Hashim Thaci resigned because the Kosovo Liberation Army crimes court in The Hague confirmed the accusation against him. . Thaci has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Osmani said that Serbia lost Kosovo in 1999 when it “abused territorial integrity and the principle of sovereignty to kill the people living in that territory.”

“When you accept reality, then we can have a successful dialogue,” Osmani added.

The AP reports that more than 10,000 people, mostly ethnic Albanians, were killed in the Kosovo war in the 1990s, and that more than 1,600 people are listed as missing.

Osmani also said that he hoped the international community “would understand that without their pressure, Serbia will never change.”

He added that “there is still no justice for the victims,” ​​more than 20 years since the end of the conflict.