Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petkovic met today with UN Secretary-General Special Representative and Head of the UNMIK Mission Caroline Ziadeh.
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UN important interlocutor, guarantor of implementation of UN SC Resolution 1244
Belgrade,
7 April 2022
Speaking about the position of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, Petkovic pointed to the fact that their human and political rights have been drastically reduced, which was confirmed by the recent decision of Pristina not to allow the holding of presidential, parliamentary and local elections of the Republic of Serbia in the territory of the province.
Petkovic also warned of the increasingly frequent attacks of Albanian extremists on Serbs in the province, pointing out that 163 incidents against Serbs have been recorded since the beginning of last year and that this negative trend continues daily.
He underlined that Serbia is sincerely interested in the stabilisation of circumstances in its southern province and recalled that Belgrade fulfilled all its obligations from the Brussels dialogue, whereas the political leadership in Pristina has been refusing for almost nine years to enable the formation of the Community of Serb Municipalities.
In addition, Pristina refuses to implement provisions related to judiciary, energy, freedom of movement and visits of Serbian officials to the province, the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija added.
Petkovic underlined that the solving of the issue of missing persons was also initiated at Belgrade’s insistence and that Pristina does not allow the search of nine locations in Kosovo and Metohija where, according to the information available to Belgrade, the remains of the Serbs who went missing in war are located, whereas Belgrade fulfilled any such request from Pristina without hesitation.
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