Why are Serbs leaving institutions in Kosovo and Metohija?

Photo: Tanjug/Milos Milivojevic

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petkovic today discussed the situation in the province with Chinese Ambassador Chen Bo, especially in light of the latest decision of the Serb people there to leave Kosovo's institutions. He also explained what motivated that decision.

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Petkovic conveyed to his interlocutor the firm determination of Belgrade, but also of the Serbs in the area of Kosovo and Metohija, to preserve peace and stability, stressing that the latest moves are a consequence of Albin Kurti's constant terror and violence against our people in the province.

In this light, the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija particularly singled out Kurti's last statement made in Berlin that he would never form the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), as well as the illegal and unlawful sacking of (policeman) Nenad Djuric, only because he did not want to issue warnings to his Serb people.

In this way, Kurti directly mocked the Brussels agreement and the European Union, which is the guarantor of the implementation of the said agreement, Petkovic noted, and added:

"Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija have suffered for too long both the physical and institutional violence at the hands of Albin Kurti and Pristina. They were banned from voting in the elections, from declaring themselves in a referendum, from getting vaccinated against Covid in Kosovo and Metohija at the peak of the pandemic, special (Pristina police) units invaded the north of the province every day, defying of all agreements, and on top of all that, our people have been waiting for 10 years for the ZSO to be formed."

He underlined that leaving Pristina's institutions is not a move by which the Serbs want to destroy or cancel the Brussels agreement, but to fight for the document to be respected, as each of them has respected all the obligations assumed over the past 10 years.

"The Serbs are not threatening anyone, they just want to live in peace in their centuries-old homesteads and for their human rights to be respected, and with their moral act they defended the Brussels agreement, but also international public law," said the director of the Office.

He particularly thanked Ambassador Chen Bo for the great friendship and support that China provides in respect to Serbia's territorial integrity and sovereignty, as well as the principled respect for international public law and UN Security Council Resolution (1244).

(Telegraf.rs)