Igor Simic: I call on KFOR, Quint and EULEX to support Serbs and take concrete action

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The vice-president of the Serb List and the director of the PIO (state pension) fund for Kosovo and Metohija, Igor Simic, today called on KFOR, UNMIK, EULEX and the Quint (US, Germany, France, Italy, UK) countries to support all those prevented from entering Serb institutions in the north of Kosovo and Metohija and to enable them to exercise their right to work.

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"I invite KFOR to come and enable freedom of movement and the right to work. I invite Quint, the EU, UNMIK, everyone who condemned the moves (by Pristina) to come and support these people. That is the only way, not their anemic statements. How many of their statements are left in drawers. On Saturday, we told them everything that was happening and now we expect concrete action. The (so-called Kosovo) police searched for two days and could not find anything," Simic told reporters in front of the building where the PIO Fund for Kosovosko-Moravicki district is located as well as the Office for Kosovo and Metohija and the Center for Social Welfare.

He said that "usurpers" came and stole the property of the Serb state and prevented people from working.

"Here, more than 40 families earn their living, more than 30,000 people receive services from the work of these institutions. These are not parallel institutions because the services they provide are not provided by anyone else. The pension fund pays pensions regardless of ethnicity. More than 4,000 Albanians will not get their pensions because of this," Simic said.

Previously, Simic tried to talk to the representatives of the so-called Kosovo police located in front of the building, to whom he said that he knew that they were also ashamed of what they were doing because they came armed to face regular people.

"When you go home, will you brag to your children that you prevented Serbs from working. We built this building and the facade, you didn't show any papers that this is yours. Please allow us to do our work," Simic told the police.

He repeated that these are not "parallel institutions."

"Serbs, Bosniaks and Albanians (now) cannot receive pensions. Maybe your cousin is among them. And you know that what you are doing is not right. 30,000 people depend on this. We only ask that you allow us to enter our workplace," said Simic, addressing members of the so-called Kosovo police.

In front of the building of the Provisional Authority of the Municipality of Kosovska Mitrovica, as well as in front of the building where the PIO Fund and Kosovosko-Moravicki administrative district, the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, the Center for Social Welfare are located, employees of those institutions gathered to try to get to work, but they were prevented from doing so by the so-called Kosovo police.

The so-called Kosovo police on Friday raided the buildings of the Provisional Authorities in Leposavic, Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvecan and Zubin Potok, as well as the hospital area of the KBC Kosovska Mitrovica, the building where the premises of the PIO Fund, the premises of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, the Kosovosko-Moravicki district and the Center for Social Welfare are located.

On Sunday, Pristina institutions put up trilingual signs that feature so-called Kosovo symbols.

On the building where the PIO Fund and the Kosovosko-Moravicki district are located there is a paper pasted on it reading: "Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Local Self-Government Administration and Ministry of Labor and Transfers."

The provisional Pristina institutions, it can be assumed, have already determined a new purpose for the premises that they forcibly closed on Friday in all four municipalities in the north of Kosovo and Metohija.

This unilateral action by Pristina was condemned by the EU mission in Pristina, as well as the US embassy and the ambassadors of Germany, Britain and France in Pristina.

(Telegraf.rs)