MITROVICA - Vladeta Kostic, a Serbian MP from Kosovo-Metohija, called on the international community on Tuesday to take all measures necessary to prevent the spread of anti-Serb violence in the province.

"Due to the increasingly frequent incidents in Kosovo-Metohija, I call on Eulex. Kfor and Unmik officials to react urgently and take all measures necessary to prevent the spread of violence and find the vandals who have assumed the right to attack the property of returnees", Kostic said.

The intimidation against Serb returnees and the threats to their lives are continuing, but have prompted no reaction from those who are responsible for their security, Kostic said in a statement to Tanjug.

Kostic particularly urged the Kosovo police and the Pristina institutions to protect the lives and the property of all in Kosovo, in particular the Metohija Serbs because, he said, the situation is apparently becoming increasingly alarming every day.

"Such and similar events are certainly not conducive to calming the situation in the region and are detrimental to all, irrespective of ethnicity," Kostic said, commenting on the most recent incidents in the province, which targeted Serbs and Serb-owned property.