Andjelkovic: Threats to Tanjug aimed at intimidating all who respect Serbian Constitution

BELGRADE - Post of Serbia Director Zoran Andjelkovic said threats to Tanjug, emailed to the news agency on Monday, were yet another way of intimidating all those who respected the Constitution of Serbia.

Authorities must track down the perpetrator, Andjelkovic told Happy TV, noting that "things like this will happen again" unless there was a reaction.

Such threats happen all the time because the Pristina institutions want to introduce a vocabulary that is acceptable only to them, Andjelkovic said, noting that the name Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija - used by the agency in its reports on Kosovo-Metohija - was unacceptable to Pristina.

Under the Serbian Constitution, the province is an integral part of Serbia.

Reactions to such threats are a bigger problem, Andjelkovic said.

"We here do react, we condemn that, but do international associations of journalists and the international community react to that? To be more specific, do they call for a reaction by the Pristina judicial authorities in response to such threats, activities and messages?" he said.

He added that everything - including threats to journalists - was permitted to the Albin Kurti regime and that threats like these were also a message that there was no place for Serbs in the territory of the province.

On Monday evening, the Tanjug News Agency received an email signed by an individual named "Trim Bardhi" that said Tanjug journalists would get "a bullet to the back of their heads" the next time they set foot in the territory of Serbia's Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija.