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Priština does not want dialogue, but confrontation with Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija

Belgrade/Brussels, 15 January 2025

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petković stated that Priština’s closure of Serb institutions in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija today shows that the prime minister of the provisional institutions in Priština, Albin Kurti, does not want dialogue, but rather violence and a direct confrontation with the Serb people in the province.

In Brussels, where a session of the Joint Commission on Missing Persons was to be held today, Petković said after pulling out of the talks due to Priština’s latest institutional violence against Serbs that around 35 Serb institutions have been closed, including provisional authorities, municipalities, social work centres and branches of postal operator Pošta Srbije.

He warned that 1,100 people were left without work in today’s illegal action alone, and that with the previous closures of Serb institutions in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, around 9,500 employees were made jobless, reiterating that all of them would continue to receive their salaries, despite Kurti trampling on their right to work.

According to him, more than 40,000 users have been denied a wide variety of services provided by Serb institutions that Priština has shut down.

Petković said that the Belgrade delegation had good intentions to continue the talks, but that due to new circumstances and the closure of Serb institutions south of the Ibar River, it left the meeting at which the issue of missing persons was supposed to be addressed.

It is clear to everyone, including the European Union, that the blame for the breakdown of the talks lies with Priština, not Belgrade, said Petković, noting that Priština’s negotiator Besnik Bislimi did not even show up to the meeting.