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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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Erasure of Serbian identity in Kosovo and Metohija unacceptable to Serbia

Belgrade, 13 June 2025

Prime Minister Professor Đuro Macut, MD, DSc, stated today that the decision by the provisional institutions in Priština to ban the use of Serbian flags and state symbols during the St. Vitus Day holiday celebration in Gračanica represents a continuation of a policy of systemic intimidation and institutional pressure on the Serbian people, who persistently remain in Kosovo and Metohija on their centuries-old land.

The Prime Minister stressed that banning the use of national symbols on St. Vitus Day, a day deeply rooted in the historical and spiritual heritage of the Serbian people, testifies to a deeply disturbing reality in which the rights of a community in the heart of Europe are being systematically extinguished.

He emphasised that it has become clear that, although the European Union condemns Albin Kurti’s actions, he continues to act with the wholehearted support of Western countries.

The Prime Minister assessed such actions, which are not isolated incidents but elements of a gradual erasure of Serbian identity from the territory of the southern Serbian province, as unacceptable to the Republic of Serbia.

Prime Minister Macut recalled that the Serb community in Kosovo and Metohija has for decades been subjected to various forms of repression, which are increasingly taking the form of planned exclusion and persecution, with the ultimate goal of demographic and cultural erasure.

He underlined that Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija are both physically and legally endangered, and that institutional discrimination is being carried out with the tacit consent of the international community.

The Prime Minister of Serbia added that it must be stated clearly and unequivocally that love for the homeland of Serbia, pride in the Serbian tricolour and the legacy passed down by our ancestors on the Kosovo field in 1389 represent the foundations of our identity and survival.

No decision, no prohibition can extinguish that flame – the Serbian people will, despite all pressures, continue to bear witness to the truth, preserve their values and mark their holidays with dignity, as they have done for centuries, the Prime Minister concluded.