Vucic blames international community for escalation in Kosovo

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has accused the international community of escalating the conflict in Kosovo and Metohija.

"I think that yesterday’s ban to enter Kosovo and Metohija that the Pristina authorities issued to Patriarch of Serbia Porfirije and their hindering his visit to our sacred place - the Pec Patriarchate monastery - openly shows who organized it. The Pristina regime is only partially responsible for it," he said on Tuesday after a meeting with the Patriarch.

"It was enough to merely look at reports of those who had been announcing the discussion of what Pristina did for the whole day. <…> Why should anyone be so insistent on removing the barricades? I will tell you why - because they want to oust the Serbs from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, because according to them, it is the only way to resolve the problem. I mean the Albanians from Pristina, some of the international community," he said, adding that he was "embarrassed to read" the EU’s statement.