"If they steal our property, we will offer peaceful resistance, but we don't know what that can turn into"

We have received firm promises and assurances that Serbia will stand by its people - Goran Rakic, head of the Serb List, said after a meeting with President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic in the Palace of Serbia in Belgrade.

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"We clearly told President Vucic that if the Kosovo security forces, special police units or anyone else starts confiscating our property, including those license plates and those vehicles, that we will use all means and provide resistance through democratic, peaceful ways, it will be the resistance of the people," said Rakic.

"We don't know what that will all turn into and how the situation will develop further. Peaceful, democratic, non-violent resistance of the people, which neither I nor any of us who live down there know what it will turn into if someone starts to take away our property by force. I congratulate the people and citizens who are under great pressure."

According to him, so far only two persons have re-registered their cars in the registration centers in the north of Kosovo.

"Pristina has so far invested several million euros in the campaign, the Serbs have recognized this propaganda and we still trust only Serbia and Aleksandar Vucic. If Pristina starts forcibly confiscating vehicles with KM plates, we will block all crossings from the north and the entrances to central Kosovo to the south," said Rakic.

Vucic previously scheduled a meeting of the Council for National Security for this morning, also in the Palace of Serbia.

The session was scheduled after representatives of the Serb List from Kosovo and Metohija requested an urgent meeting with President Aleksandar Vucic due to Albin Kurti's announcement that Pristina would on November 1 begin "seizing the property of our citizens and vehicles with Serbian license plates."

The deadline set by Pristina for re-registration of license plates in Kosovo and Metohija expires on October 31, and Prime Minister of the provisional institutions in Pristina Albin Kurti said that this deadline will not be extended, despite appeals from the West.

(Telegraf.rs)