Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic informed the EU Special Representative for the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Miroslav Lajcak, about the unbearable living conditions for Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija due to constant pressure from the Kosovo Albanian authorities, as reported on social networks.
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The EU Special Representative arrived in Belgrade after a visit to Pristina, where he called on the Kosovo Albanian authorities to begin forming the Community of Serb Communities (CSO) from municipalities with a predominantly Serb population in the province, agreements on which were reached in Brussels in 2013 and 2015.
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“An open and correct conversation with Miroslav Lajcak about the situation in Kosovo and Metohija and about the practically impossible (unbearable – ed.) living conditions for the Serbian population caused by the constant pressure and arbitrariness of the authorities in Pristina. I repeated that a return to a constructive dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina and the normalization of relations lies, first of all, in the implementation of the Brussels agreements, that is, the urgent formation of the MTR,” Vucic wrote on social networks.
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He noted that the EU remains the main mediator in this process and in Serbia will have a “serious and responsible partner.”
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Vučić and the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija under the Cabinet of Ministers of Serbia Petar Petkovic yesterday informed the UN Under-Secretary General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas Miroslav Jenč and the head of the UN mission in Kosovo Caroline Ziyade about the constant pressure on the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija and the unilateral steps of Pristina.
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Petkovic informed them in detail about the latest incidents – the use of force by the Kosovo “police” against Serbian youths celebrating a birthday and a search of two Serbian schools in the village of Leposavic. According to him, Pristina’s plans to write a charter for the Community of Serbian Communities (CCO) in the region are an attempt by the Kosovo Albanian “prime minister” Albin Kurti to postpone the formation of the CCO.
