The Government of the Republic of Serbia passed at today’s session a Conclusion adopting a measure for the payment of one-off financial assistance to individuals currently held in prisons and judicial detention centres of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government in Priština in Kosovo and Metohija against whom trumped-up criminal proceedings are being conducted for crimes allegedly committed during the 1998-1999 armed conflicts against Albanians in the territory of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, as well as other trumped-up criminal proceedings initiated for the purpose of political persecution.