Acting Interior Minister Xhelal Sveçla has said that they will not allow insults and desecration of the history of Kosovo, much less of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), following the arrest of the assistant director of the so-called Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, Igor Popović, on Friday at the border crossing in Brnjak.
Popovic was arrested after he described the KLA as a "terrorist organization" during a ceremony in Velika Hoca during the day.
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"I want to emphasize that the Republic of Kosovo is a democratic and sovereign state. We have neither violated another state, nor have we provoked the population of another state, nor will we allow such actions against us." "We will not tolerate insults and desecration of our history, much less of our Liberation War led by the KLA. This part of history enjoys the respect of the entire progressive world," Sveçla wrote.
The acting minister has said that Milosevic-style statements are reprehensible because they are untrue.
"The statements of the Milosevic model, which the political administration of Serbia led by Vučić still keeps alive and spreads everywhere, are reprehensible because they are divisive, untrue because they are fabricated, and harmful because they are contrary to every international norm of neighborliness and progressive societies," he wrote.
