Djuric calls on international stakeholders to condemn Kurti's coordinated actions

BELGRADE - Senior Serbian Progressive Party official Marko Djuric said Wednesday's coordinated actions by the government of Pristina's PM Albin Kurti, targeting Serbian institutions in Kosovo Polje, Gracanica, Lipljan, Velika Hoca, Orahovac, Kusce and numerous other enclaves marked a "dangerous escalation".

"The international community must not remain silent. By turning a blind eye, it risks endorsing actions that prioritise political agendas over basic human rights and the implementation of agreed-upon frameworks," Djuric wrote in a post on X, in which he tagged EU officials Miroslav Lajcak and Kaja Kallas, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the UN Office for Human Rights, the OSCE and the US embassy in Pristina.

"We call on international stakeholders to:

1. Condemn these actions publicly and unequivocally.

2. Demand immediate cessation of institutional targeting and protect the rights of Serbs in Kosovo*.

3. Hold all parties accountable to agreements ensuring peace and coexistence," he noted.

"These aggressive moves are not just an attack on institutions but a blatant attempt to undermine the collective rights and identity of Serbs in Kosovo*.

It is evident that Kurti is using these provocations as part of his election campaign, disregarding human rights and flouting agreements that were meant to protect peace and coexistence. This strategy only deepens divisions and threatens stability in the region," he also wrote.

"The time to act is now. Silence is complicity," Djuric concluded.

The so-called Kosovo Police raided all buildings of Serbian government institutions south of the Ibar River in Kosovo-Metohija this morning, seizing the buildings of the interim authorities in Gracanica, Kosovo Polje, Lipljan, Orahovac, Gnjilane, Vucitrn, Ugljare and the Coordination Centre offices in Novi Badovac.