The European Union on Tuesday condemned the “inflammatory” statement of a Serbian government minister supporting the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians during the 1998-99 war.
Snezana Paunovic, Minister for Local Government, on Monday told the Belgrade-based Kurir that she “would have ethnically cleansed Kosovo” had she been in the place of Serbia’s then strongman leader, Slobodan Milosevic, in 1999.
The Serbian government regularly accuses the Kosovo government of trying to drive out its remaining Serb population.
The minister is from the ranks of the government’s junior coalition partner, the Socialist Party of Serbia, the party Milosevic founded in 1990 and led until he died in a Hague detention centre in 2006, awaiting a war-crimes verdict.
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