Petkovic: Belgrade will not tolerate Pristina's violence in attacking rights of company MTS doo in Kosovo

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Belgrade will not tolerate violence and arbitrariness of Pristina in the attack on the rights of the company MTS doo in Kosovo and Metohija, the daughter company of Telekom Srbija, because this is not only a violation of the inviolable rights of a company to unhindered business, but above all an attack on the rights of the Serb people, announced the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic.

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"The MTS company has legal mechanisms at its disposal to overturn the senseless decision of the so-called Kosovo Business Registration Agency, and due to its unilateral acts, Pristina may suffer serious consequences in the field of telecommunications," the statement said.

"This time once again, as during all previous provocations and escalations, Kurti made the first move, and therefore the responsibility for all the consequences that could result from such demonstrations of force will be solely on him.

We have informed all relevant foreign interlocutors, including the EU mediator in the dialogue and the Quint countries (US, Germany, France, Italy, UK), through diplomatic means on the first day, about the latest act of arbitrariness by Albin Kurti and his henchmen, as well as about our positions on this occasion, demanding an immediate reaction, and our country will, as from from the very beginning, continue to protect valid agreements, law and justice together with MTS and Telekom Srbija and their management," it is stated.

"At a time when MTS doo regulated its operations in Kosovo and Metohija in accordance with the agreements reached in Brussels and all the regulations valid in Pristina, procedurally everything was fine, however, there is obviously nothing fine with Kurti.

I would like to remind you that the issue of the functioning of telecommunications in Serb communities in Kosovo and Metohija is regulated by a series of documents agreed upon in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, with the mediation of the EU," said Petar Petkovic.

"Therefore, on September 8, 2013, Belgrade and Pristina reached an agreement in the field of telecommunications, which was elaborated in the later phase of negotiations through the provisions of the Action Plan initialed on August 25, 2015, the conclusions of the EU mediator from November 13, 2016 and the statement issued by the EU mediator in support of the adoption of the conclusions in order to specify the agreed provisions, so that on November 18, 2016, a supplement to the conclusions was also adopted in Brussels.

"Behind these arrangements are hundreds of hours of negotiations, while the capricious Allbin Kurti destroys all of it in an attack of arbitrariness, in order to once again demonstrate that he is not bound by anything agreed so far in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

"Pristina, using a senseless administrative argument to prevent MTS from working, actually wanted to achieve a more far-reaching and dangerous goal than simply blocking the work of one business entity, which is to disable mobile connections between the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija and the rest of Serbia and to, by shutting down the TV signal and the internet, completely, information-wise. isolate current users of MTS services.

In this way, Kurti also in the most primitive way belittles the efforts made by the European Union and its mediators in the process of normalizing relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

His determination to continue on the path of violating the Brussels agreements is another wake-up call, because if he is allowed to do so, we can in every sense return to the period before the beginning of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, and from there, only one more small step remains until a full escalation on the ground," the statement concluded.

(Telegraf.rs)