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Time running out for giving guarantees to Kosovo Serbs
Belgrade,
2 October 2004
Head of the Serbian government’s Office of Media Relations Srdjan Djuric told Tanjug news agency today that time for giving institutional guarantees to Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija is slowly running out and that it is unlikely that the Prime Minister will call on Serbs to take part in the upcoming elections.
Srdjan Djuric
Serb have taken part in previous elections, but it has always turned out that they have been defrauded, ill-treated, persecuted, or killed said Djuric, adding that the false promises after the March 17 pogrom should have been replaced with concrete guarantees. Serbs have never received such guarantees, not even on paper, he said.
Djuric said that it is absolutely certain that the Prime Minister will not call on Serbs to take part in the elections without solid guarantees, because that would mean that the Serb community is giving democratic legitimacy to the ethnic-Albanian majority “even though we can see with our own eyes that the Serbs are deprived of all rights in the southern Serbian province.”
He recalled that the parliament has adopted the Serbian government’s Plan for Kosovo-Metohija, whose implementation would encourage Kosovo Serbs to take part in the provincial elections.
Djuric said that it is absolutely certain that the Prime Minister will not call on Serbs to take part in the elections without solid guarantees, because that would mean that the Serb community is giving democratic legitimacy to the ethnic-Albanian majority “even though we can see with our own eyes that the Serbs are deprived of all rights in the southern Serbian province.”
He recalled that the parliament has adopted the Serbian government’s Plan for Kosovo-Metohija, whose implementation would encourage Kosovo Serbs to take part in the provincial elections.
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