Igor Simic: Situation in Kosovo and Metohija has never been worse

PHOTO TANJUG/ ZORAN ZESTIC

A member of the Presidency of the Serb List, Igor Simic, has said that the situation in Kosovo and Metohija has never been worse, that it is deteriorating every day, and that the Serbs in the province are living in circumstances similar to apartheid.

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"The fact is the following, if there is no security for Serbs, there will be no Serbs in Kosovo. People are leaving, economically well-off people are leaving, because they don't know what awaits them tomorrow," Simic told RTS.

He said that the state must take a clear and strong position, that it is necessary to strengthen security and economic and financial assistance for the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija.

"We are faced with a situation where there are no products from central Serbia, and the prices that the population in the north of Kosovo and Metohija pays for lower-quality products from the region are almost twice as high," said Simic.

He said that Serbs do not trust EULEX at all because that mission has never done anything to protect them.

Simic stressed that "every day things are getting worse" in Kosovo, that these are the consequences of a systematic plan of the provisional authorities in Pristina aimed at the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Kosovo.

"The situation has never been worse, I was born in Kosovo and Metohija, I have been in politics for 12 years and I most responsibly claim that the Serbs live in circumstances similar to apartheid," said Simic.

He added that there are no "individual incidents" in Kosovo, but that Pristina is implementing a "systematic plan and institutional violence, which ultimately results in ethnic cleansing."

"The time for anemic statements by the international community has passed," Simic stressed and noted that KFOR has 8,000 members in the province and EULEX has several hundred, and that there is a way to react to the violence coming from the provisional Pristina institutions.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)