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Strong support of Serbian government to Serbian List in upcoming Kosovo elections

Belgrade, 21 May 2017

Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric said today that on 11 June parliamentary elections will be held in Kosovo which will be of crucial importance for the survival and fate of our people in the southern Serbian province.

Djuric said at a press conference in the Serbian government after a meeting between representatives of the Serbian List and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic that the Serbian List gathers all Serbian representatives who want to work and cooperate with Serbia, would like to fight for the interests of the Serbian people in the southern province and rely on the strong support of the Serbian state, the nation, and most of the compatriots in the province.

According to him, the Serbian government believes that the Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija should gather around the Serbian List primarily because in this election it also means continued support of Serbian state to the institutions in Kosovo-Metohija, as well as the continuation of institutional relations.

Only the Serbian List can guarantee and fight in the provincial institutions that the relationship between Belgrade and our people in Kosovo remains unbroken, Djuric said.

He pointed out that deputies of the Serbian List prevented the formation of a Kosovo army and that its establishment requires four out of 10 Serbian votes, which must not be allowed.

Albanians are trying in every way through various abuses and machinations, including through buying of certain Serbian representatives to get Serbian mandates, as well as other mandates, Djuric noted, adding that they had registered a series of lists on which there are actually people who are in direct function and directly delegated by Albanian parties in order to take control of the most part of the non-Albanian population and placed the political system in the province under their full control.

Djuric said that Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic conveyed today to representatives of the Serbian people in Kosovo the support and solidarity of the people of Serbia and the desire of Serbian state institutions and all our people that the Serbs in Kosovo vote strongly for their interests.

Minister of Labour, Employment, Social and Veterans' Affairs Aleksandar Vulin said that the only reason that the Kosovo Army has not been formed is because the MPs of the Serbian List prevent that.

If there are no deputies who really speak on behalf of the Serbian people, rest assured that the Kosovo Army will be a new factor in Kosovo-Metohija. When you listen to candidate for Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, who is threatening to reach Nis it can be guessed what he will do once he has an army. The Serbs must not allow that, Vulin said.

Minister of Energy and Mining Aleksandar Antic stressed the importance of conservation of energy capacity, especially for supplying northern Kosovo.

The issue of security of supply of electricity to the north is an extremely sensitive issue. For us the Gazivode system is of capital importance because it provides security of supply in the north. We take special care of it because any solution that is not fully coordinated with us would bring people in the north of Kosovo to a position of power hostages, Antic warned.

Antic said that very difficult talks regarding that are being conducted and that Pristina's administration is trying to achieve their goals that are not in line with the agreement.

Leader of the Serbian List Slavko Simic noted that 20 candidates for MPs held a consultative meeting with Prime Minister Vucic and that since its establishment the Serbian List has been coordinating all its activities with the Serbian government.

Serbian list is a national project, has become a political brand of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija. So far it has been the holder of the peace and stability and the policy of the Serbian government. We prevented them from voting all those legal provisions which were to the detriment of the Serbian people in the province, Simic concluded.