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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Request to EULEX to ensure freedom of movement for Kosovo Serbs

Belgrade, 28 March 2012

The Ministry for Kosovo-Metohija announced yesterday evening that the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) arrested four Serbs at the Bela Zemlja administrative crossing.

The detained are Svetozar Naskovic from Koretiste near Gnjilane, Mayor of Kosovska Vitina Srecko Spasic from Klokot and municipal workers Aleksandar Stojiljkovic from Klokot and Ivica Nojkic from Mogila.

The statement said that the reasons for the arrest and detention of the four Serbs are that they were allegedly in possession of election material and that they are workers of Serbian institutions in the province.

The Ministry for Kosovo-Metohija urges EULEX to respond swiftly and release the arrested Serbs as soon as possible.

The Ministry requests UNMIK to provide the freedom of movement for the Kosovo Serbs and to stop unreasonable arrests and harassment of Serbs by the KPS which have become frequent in the last month.

It is completely clear that Pristina is making the agreement on freedom of movement meaningless with these actions and that it wants to intimidate the Kosovo Serbs by detaining the Serbs who work in the institutions of the state of Serbia, the Ministry pointed out.

This behaviour and attitude and attitude toward the Kosovo Serbs only create tensions and make every further attempt to establish an atmosphere of trust and dialogue in solving of disputable issues between the two communities in the province pointless, the statement added.