"Secret indictments against Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija are an unacceptable form of political pressure"

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Secret indictments against Serbs represent an unacceptable method of political pressure against the already disenfranchised Serb population in Kosovo and Metohija, said the Serbian ambassador to the US, Marko Djuric.

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"There can be no justification for their secrecy, considering that the agreements, mediated by the European Union, provide for mechanisms of mutual legal assistance between the central government in Belgrade and the provisional institutions (in Pristina) with the mediation of EULEX", Djuric explained for today's Politika.

He stressed that transparency in actions of all institutions is a necessary precondition for establishing trust in them.

"But what kind of trust can we talk about at the level of an individual, if the collective political rights of an entire people guaranteed even in the constitution of 'Kosovo' are being trampled on," said Djuric.

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petkovic said on December 16 that there is a list for arrest of 230 Serbs, whom Pristina charges with alleged war crimes.

In recent days, four Serbs have been arrested in Kosovo, and Petkovic said that this shows the prime minister of the provisional institutions in Pristina, Albin Kurti, does not want to calm tensions, but continues to hunt down Serbs.

(Telegraf.rs)