Djuric: Serbian embassy in Switzerland also received threats, they will not scare us

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After threats of attacks previously received by our embassies and consulates in Germany and Austria, Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Djuric stated, the Serbian embassy in Bern also received threats.

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"Our institutions, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Information Agency and others, are in contact with their colleagues in those countries. Our diplomats, our diplomatic and consular missions and our citizens are safe and we will continue to work together with partners in the international community to suppress this type of extremism," he told RTS.

He stressed that Serbia will not be intimidated or prevented from acting by such threats, therefore every Serbian embassy and every Serbian consulate will be a small office for Kosovo and Metohija that will speak about the violation of the collective human rights of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija and the persecution to which the Serbs are exposed.

"We will not retreat in the face of terror. On the contrary, we will unite. Serbia acts on behalf of all its citizens, regardless of nationality. We will equally fight for the rights of citizens including the rights of Albanians, Bosniaks, and all other Serbian citizens. But we will not retreat in the face of extremists, in the face of violence and terror," he said.

He assessed that someone must be held accountable for threats of terrorist attacks and added that when he says this, he does not mean only the person or persons who are chosen to make the threats or prepare attacks, but those whose policies introduce this type of extremism in the political mainstream, who also must be held accountable.

In connection with threatening messages previously sent by email to Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport, our embassies and consulates in Austria and Germany, and the Belgrade Center for Security Policy, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia has received official information that Denis Krasniqi from Switzerland, originally from Kosovo and Metohija, was behind them.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)