Acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said that Serbia understands better than ever before that Kosovo is a state, even though it continues to refuse recognition.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Kurti also accused opposition parties, saying that due to their lack of cooperation the country went to elections twice last year. He stressed that the people of Kosovo, according to him, refuse to return “to the era of corruption.” He added that the contributor to instability in the region, through Serbia, is the Russian Federation.

“Of the four neighbors that we have as the Republic of Kosovo, three recognize us. Only Serbia does not, and it does not seem that it will do so anytime soon. Even so, I think they understand better than ever that we are another state. Reality has changed a lot. But what needs to happen is for their dream of returning to be extinguished. Likewise, a contributor to this is the Russian Empire, or what is now the Russian Federation. The Russian Empire does not want neighbors, but it is impossible not to have neighbors,” he said.

At the same time, Kurti accused the opposition regarding the new elections, underlining that their lack of cooperation led to new elections and to a good result for him, in which he received over 51 percent of the vote.

On the other hand, Kurti said that during his governing mandate he inherited a situation of endemic corruption, and therefore, according to him, the people of Kosovo refuse to return to that condition in the future.

He emphasized that no one within his government cabinet even has the slightest imagination of being involved in corruption at any level.

The Vetëvendosje Movement won 51.11 percent of the vote in the elections held on December 28.