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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija exposed to various types of violence

Belgrade, 24 August 2023

Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petkovic informed today Director General for Europe at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) Peter Wilson about the constant institutional, political and physical violence exerted by the regime of Albin Kurti over the Serbs in the province.

Speaking at a meeting, which was also attended by UK Ambassador to Serbia Edward Ferguson, Petkovic expressed worry over frequent, unbased and illegal arrests of Serbs, as well as the attempt to seize the building in Kosovska Mitrovica that houses the premises of Serbian institutions, including the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund and others.

The crisis in the province, especially in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, is directed in Pristina, and it peaked with the appointment of illegal and illegitimate mayors and members of the special police in Serbian municipalities in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, which has become a threat to peace and stability in the entire region, he underlined.

The Director of the Office pointed out that this is only one in a series of moves that leads towards a new raising in tensions and a new crisis, which does not go in the direction of de-escalation, but of direct escalation of the situation on the ground.

According to him, Belgrade and Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija want lasting and sustainable peace in the territory of the province, and the formation of the Community of Serb Municipalities, for which the Serbs have been waiting for over ten years and which is an obligation of Pristina it assumed during the dialogue in Brussels, would contribute to this.