(6 Dec 2024)
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Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina- 06 December 2024
1. Various of Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti preparing to address Bosnian think-tank gathering, participants greeting him with applause
2. Event participants applauding
3. Kurti approaching lectern
4. Wide of Kurti addressing event participants
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Albin Kurti, Kosovo’s Prime Minister:
“They (Serbia) have entered a new area by facilitating an attack on our critical infrastructure. We believe that this attack has been done by Serbia with the Russian playbook.”
6. Wide of Kurti addressing the Sarajevo gathering
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Albin Kurti, Kosovo’s Prime Minister:
“Time and again we have seen these attacks from Serbia. If it is not Serbia then it is Serbia and Russia together. But we do not have these kinds of attacks without Serbia being in. They are very aggressive against us, and they are very nervous now that there are no internal sources of destabilization that we cannot manage and control.”
8. Various of Kurti addressing Sarajevo gathering, members of audience clapping
STORYLINE:
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti reiterated Friday his accusation that Serbia was behind a powerful explosion last week that temporarily cut water and power to large swathes of his country.
“They (Serbia) have entered a new area by facilitating an attack on our critical infrastructure; we believe that this attack has been done by Serbia with the Russian playbook,” Kurti said in Bosnia, where he was a keynote speaker at an event organized by a Sarajevo-based think tank, Krug 99.
“Time and again we have seen these attacks from Serbia. If it is not Serbia then it is Serbia and Russia together, but we do not have these kinds of attacks without Serbia being in, they are very aggressive against us and they are very nervous that there are no internal sources of destabilization that we cannot manage and control,” he insisted.
Following the attack, Kosovo police have raided 10 locations in the north, confiscating more than 200 military uniforms, six shoulder-fired rocket launchers, long weapons, pistols and ammunition, they said.
About 15 to 20 kilograms (30 to 45 pounds) of explosives were used to damage the critical infrastructure, according to police.
The explosion has further fueled tensions between the two Balkan states.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, which is not recognized by Belgrade.
Most of the Serb minority living in Kosovo still consider Belgrade as their capital.
The European Union and the United States strongly denounced the explosion and demanded that the perpetrators are brought to justice.
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