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State will request additional guarantees for Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija

Belgrade/Dubai, 8 January 2023

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said today, regarding the negative reply of KFOR to Serbia's request that members of the Serbian army and police return to the province, that what KFOR says is one thing, and the reality is another, and the reality is that Serbs are not safe in Kosovo and Metohija.

In a statement for the Tanjug agency in Dubai, Brnabic pointed out that we will seek additional guarantees for Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, because these are not the conditions in which anyone in Europe should live in the 21st century.

She said that she will continue to insist on respecting all previous agreements reached in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, with the expectation that the formation of the Community of Serb Municipalities will be the focus of the meetings expected during the next week.

Speaking about KFOR's negative response to Belgrade's request, the Prime Minister assessed that two things speak about the character of that response - firstly, that the response was sent on Christmas Eve, and secondly, that immediately before that response, a boy and a young man of Serbian nationality were shot at in Strpce.

According to her, that attack is just the latest in a series of incidents, and that series currently includes more than 300 attacks on Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija in the last two years, for which no one has been held accountable.

Then we hear that there is someone who can take care of the Serbs in the province and that the only help that is not needed is the support of the Serbian security forces, Brnabic pointed out and underlined that this is contrary to UN Security Council Resolution 1244.

The Prime Minister emphasised that all those who recognised the unilaterally declared independence of the so-called Kosovo violated this resolution and that they know it very well.