Djuric: Kurti has no carte blanche support from US

BELGRADE - Serbian Ambassador to the US Marko Djuric said on Monday Kosovo's ethnic Albanians had no carte blanche support from the US for everything they did and that Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was greatly deluded and "still living in 1999."

The fact Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church has been banned from visiting the Patriarchate of Pec and that two Kosovo Serb youths were attacked on Christmas Eve has not gone unnoticed in the US, Djuric told Pink TV.

"The ban for the patriarch had a resounding effect because it is an unbelievable scandal. A number of US Congress members have been informed of that and they have exerted pressure on Pristina. Every day, we will keep saying what has been done to those boys and to the patriarch," he said.

He said his impression was that Kurti was fighting personal, internal wars.

"He is a man who is too...