Petkovic: Extent of Pristina's pressure on Serbs unendurable

BELGRADE - The extent of Pristina's daily pressure on Serbs in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija has become unendurable and political actors in Pristina are leading the region on a path of dangerous destabilisation, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said at a meeting with the ambassadors of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico on Wednesday.

Petkovic informed Ambassadors Osvaldo Marsico of Argentina, Jose Mauro da Fonseca Costa Couto of Brazil and Carlos Isauro Felix Corona of Mexico of the political and security situation in the province and noted that the daily institutional and physical violence by the Pristina regime against the Serbs, the destruction of the Brussels Agreement and Pristina's 11-year-long refusal to establish a Community of Serb Municipalities were evidently leading to a definite expulsion of Serbs from the province and the creation of an ethnically clean Kosovo-Metohija, which is an overt plan of Pristina's PM Albin Kurti, the Office for Kosovo-Metohija said in a statement.

Despite this, Belgrade will continue to act in a constructive way for the sake of preserving peace and economic stability in the region, Petkovic said.

Commenting on Pristina's most recent decision to lift its ban on goods from central Serbia at the Merdare administrative crossing, Petkovic said the decision had been made under international pressure but still represented a positive decision in a myriad of negative developments and pressure whereby Kurti was continuously making life worse for the Serbs in every segment.