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Kosovo's PM critical of Vucic's speech to Serbs

(10 Sep 2018) Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci said on Monday that the praising of former Yugoslav and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic by his Serbian counterpart was "a provocation", and dubbed Milosevic the "Balkans butcher". On Sunday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said, during a keynote addressing Kosovo's Serbs, that Milosevic "was a great Serbian leader" whose "aims were certainly the best". Vucic, an ultranationalist during the wars in the Balkans, was Milosevic's information minister in 1999. Milosevic, who died in 2006 while on trial at a UN war crimes tribunal, is widely considered the most responsible for the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia and the death of at least 120,000 people in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. "We heard words of peace, dialogue, good neighbourly relationship", said Thaci, referring to Vucic's speech. "But at the same time, we also heard provocations about the Balkan butcher responsible for the genocide in Kosovo, Bosnia and the wars in Slovenia and Croatia, Slobodan Milosevic." "The glorification of figures such as Milosevic and his generals, as well as the call for peace and agreement are not parallel to each other", added Thaci, during a news conference. Earlier, Thaci held a meeting with representatives from municipalities in Serbia's Presevo Valley, which he called important and productive. The representatives requested the Assembly of Kosovo issues a resolution in an extraordinary session that would accept the request of the municipalities to join Kosovo. "I believe in the cause that the Presevo valley needs to join Kosovo. No one can change my mind no matter who it would be", said Thaci. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...