14.09.2017.
Vulin: They attack the Red Cross because they do not recognize Kosovo and Metohija
Answering a journalist's question about a new provocation in Kosovo and Metohija and the capture of members of the Red Cross of Serbia, Minister Vulin said that it was an inexplicable attack on a humanitarian organization.
- The Red Cross is a symbol of goodness, peace and help to everyone. In Kosovo and Metohija, the Red Cross of Serbia helps everybody - both the Albanians and the Serbs, both the Gorans and the Bosniaks, to everyone who needs help, and they treat it as if it were a terrorist organization. This is unacceptable. This happens sometimes, but even then very rarely, in war zones where humanitarian workers are attacked. This to happen in a zone where there is no war, no conflict, it is unprecedented. This must trigger reaction of the entire international community. Until the new government is established in Kosovo and Metohija, and until Serbs takes over its part of the authority, power and influence, such things will happen. And it would happen even more thif there were no Serb representatives. It is an attack on the Serbs, but even more on the Red Cross. This must be understood by the whole world. The Red Cross is an organization that does not allow the existence of multiple organisations under that name in a single territory. The Red Cross does not recognize Kosovo and Metohija as a sovereign country. And that is why the Red Cross was attacked. It only recognizes one such organisation in Serbia, the one based in Belgrade. That is why it was attacked. This should be understood by the international community, but also by the Red Cross itself. It needs to protect its people, to protect their work. If they are not present in Kosovo and Metohija, thousands and thousands of people in that southern Serbian province will be left without meals, without help, without medication, and we will not know whether they are the Albanians, the Serbs or someone else. And that did not matter to the humanitarians of the Red Cross.
