Vucic appealed to NATO Secretary General over violence against Serbs in Kosovo

Brief retelling from RIA II

Vučić sent a letter to Rutte asking him to stop the violence of the Kosovo Albanian authorities against the Serbs in Kosovo.

He recalled that continuous persecution has been taking place for the last five years.

BELGRADE, August 20 - RIA Novosti. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that he sent a letter to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte so that the KFOR mission in Kosovo would stop the violence of the Kosovo Albanian authorities against the Serbs in the province.

The leadership of the largest party of Kosovo Serbs, the Serbian List, held a meeting with the KFOR command in August and expressed concerns about plans to transfer control of the bridge over the Ibar River, as well as the security of the medieval monastery of Vysoki Decani, to the Kosovo Albanian “police”.

“I have just sent a letter to ... Rutte and requested that KFOR, in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1244, stop the terror of the Serbs, persecution, detentions, demolitions of houses, the opening of the bridge on the Ibar River and that the international community take steps to ensure that Pristina implements the key provisions of the Brussels Agreement of 2013,” Vucic said in a video message on Instagram *.

He recalled that over the past five years there has been continuous persecution of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija.

“All the time, in the silence of what we allegorically call the international community. The EU is silent, NATO is silent, everyone else is silent,” the Serbian President emphasized.

According to the Kosovo Serb Party, the police of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo recently beat up seven local Serbs in the north of the region, so they should not be given control over Serbian areas and objects.

Serbia has not had the right to keep its troops and police in the Kosovo region since 1999, when the Kumanovo military-technical agreement was adopted. In 1999, an armed confrontation between Albanian separatists from the Kosovo Liberation Army and Serbian security forces led to the bombing of the FRY (at that time consisting of Serbia and Montenegro) by NATO forces.

The military operation was undertaken without the approval of the UN Security Council based on the assertion of Western countries that the authorities of the FRY allegedly carried out ethnic cleansing in the Kosovo autonomy and provoked a humanitarian catastrophe there. NATO airstrikes continued from March 24 to June 10, 1999. After this, the KFOR contingent was introduced into Kosovo and Metohija under the auspices of NATO; now the North Atlantic Alliance contingent in Kosovo includes about 4.5 thousand military personnel from 29 states.