Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy, Zorana Mihajlovic, has stated that KOSTT's decision in Kosovo not to cover electricity costs for northern municipalities is pressure on Serbs.
Mihajlovic has claimed without facts that this is another lie and an organized conspiracy against the Serbian people in Kosovo, and that the debt of 17 million euros that KOSTT has reported until December 2020 is not true, since according to her, until December 2020, the north's supply came directly from Serbia.
"There is another series of lies and conspiracies orchestrated against the Serbian population in Kosovo. The debt of 17 million euros that KOSTT reported in December 2020 is a lie. It is a lie because until December the electricity supply to Serbia was made directly from Serbia," Mihajlovic told the Serbian daily "Tanjug".
Link to the article published on "tanjug.rs" with the statement given by the Minister of Energy in Serbia, Zorana Mihajlovic:
http://www.tanjug.rs/full-view.aspx?izb=699730
On the other hand, during his report to the Committee on Economy, the Chairman of the KOSTT Board, Jeton Mehmeti, said that during this month KOSTT has stopped allocating funds to cover electricity costs in the four municipalities with a Serb majority in northern Kosovo, because the agreement between KOSTT and the Government of Kosovo has ended.
Among other things, Mehmeti said that since 2017, the total amount for electricity payments in the four northern municipalities is 27 million and 806 thousand euros, of which 10 million euros were from the Government of Kosovo, while over 17 million were paid by KOSST.
Link to the announcement on the KOSST website regarding the interruption of electricity payments in the north:
Analyze:
The Minister of Energy in Serbia, Zorana Mihajlovic, has claimed without evidence that the Serbian state has paid for the electricity in northern Kosovo. On the other hand, KOSTT proves the opposite, that the payment was made by the Kosovo side.
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