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Arrest warrants for an alleged crime in Racak continuation of pressure against Serbs

Belgrade, 16 January 2023

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic stated today that the fact that the prosecutor's office of so-called Kosovo issued international warrants for 18 Serbs for an alleged crime in Racak is an additional form of pressure and provocation.

After a meeting at the House of the Guard of the Serbian Army, where the state leadership was informed about the situation in the army, Brnabic pointed out that the year 2023 started extremely badly, and that last year peace was barely preserved, and that only thanks to the president of our country.

She pointed out that the hybrid war against Serbia is waged daily from several sides and that it is aimed at reducing the strength of our country, the Serbian leadership and the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija by criminalising the Serbian List.

As we had an attack on an 11-year-old boy and an 18-year-old young man on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we now have those indictments. In the last two years, there have been more than 300 provocations and attacks on the Serbian population in Kosovo and Metohija, and no one has been held accountable, nor has a single indictment been filed. This speaks of the state of security and the rule of law for Serbs in the province, the Prime Minister stressed.

Also, Brnabic said that Serbia will not calm down until the perpetrators and those who ordered the murder of the leader of the Civic Initiative "Freedom, Democracy, Justice" Oliver Ivanovic are found and brought to justice.

Given that the murder took place on the territory of the AP Kosovo and Metohija, we need information from international actors dealing with the legal order - EULEX and UNMIK, as well as Pristina institutions that are in charge and competent to find the perpetrators of that heinous crime, she explained.

Serbia has no additional information, but the Serbian security services continue to work on it, she said.

At the same time, the Prime Minister pointed out that Special Envoy of Great Britain for the Western Balkans Stuart Peach will arrive in Belgrade tomorrow, after which the representatives of the international community for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, the so-called "big four", will arrive by 20 January.

Speaking about hacker attacks by the "Anonymous" group on the portals of state institutions, she said that only one website was taken down on that occasion - the website of the Republic Hydrometeorological Institute of Serbia, which is not part of the state management of websites, and added that this will have to be changed.