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Belgrade will do everything to preserve peace in north of Kosovo and Metohija

Belgrade, 13 June 2023

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petkovic said today that official Belgrade will do everything to preserve peace in Kosovo and Metohija, noting that the situation in the northern part of the southern Serbian province is the most difficult up to now.

At an extraordinary press conference in the government of Serbia, following the arrest of Serb Milun Milenkovic in Kosovska Mitrovica, Petkovic pointed out that with today’s action, the prime minister of the provisional institutions of self-government in Pristina, Albin Kurti, showed that he is only interested in conflicts in Kosovo and Metohija.

He stated that Milenkovic was arrested today on Kurti’s order, although neither Kurti nor the interior minister of the provisional institutions of self-government in Pristina, Xhelal Sveçla, have, nor have they shown, evidence for this.

Milenkovic was wanted for months by the Kosovo police because he is a fighter for Serbian interests and the rights of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija. During the arrest, Kurti created a state of siege, a large number of armored vehicles entered the northern part of Mitrovica from the southern part, as well as a large number of ROSU members who threw tear gas at the citizens of Severna Mitrovica and aimed at random passers-by, Petkovic announced.

According to him, it is a shame for the Kosovo police, who targeted random passers-by who raised their hands.

The Director of the Office emphasised that Milenkovic does not have a criminal record, but has numerous medals that he won as a prominent athlete, and is now the coach of the kick-boxing club in Kosovska Mitrovica, whose membership includes many talented children who are now winning medals.

He said that President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic spoke on several occasions today with EU’s special envoy for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina Miroslav Lajčák and numerous other international officials, in order to influence Kurti to abandon the actions they have for the goal is to expel the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija.

We call on KFOR to react urgently and remove ROSU special forces from the north of Kosovo and Metohija, Petkovic said and repeated that the goal of the policy led by Kurti is to provoke conflicts in the north of the province.

He confirmed that the KFOR commander is coming to Belgrade tomorrow, with whom President Aleksandar Vucic and Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Army General Milan Mojsilovic will talk.

It is very important for KFOR to remove the illegally present ROSU forces from the north of Kosovo and Metohija, which obviously aim to occupy the north of our southern province, Petkovic repeated.