KiM Committee meeting on security in province on Oct. 27 (Tanjug)
BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament’s Committee on Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) will hold a meeting on the security situation in the southern Serbian province on Monday, October 27, Milovan Drecun, chairman of the body, said Tuesday.
"The meeting will discuss the current security situation in Kosovo-Metohija, with special emphasis on the security of the Serbian population,” Drecun told Tanjug.
Drecun said that he would invite the following officials to the meeting: Director of the Serbian government’s Office for KiM Marko Djuric, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic, the heads of EULEX and UNMIK, the heads of districts in KiM and all Serbian members in the Kosovo parliament.
He pointed out that Serbs and their property were targets of several incidents in KiM following the Euro 2016 football qualifier match between Serbia and Albania in Belgrade on October 14.
The match was abandoned after a brawl on the pitch following the appearance of a drone bearing a map depicting the so-called Greater Albania, a nationalist project that would include parts of Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Greece.
Albanians in the region celebrated the incident as a national victory. This was followed by a series of provocations and attacks in which Albanian nationalists and extremists targeted bars and shops in Kosovo-Metohija, southern part of central Serbia and even in Vienna.
These incidents were followed by attacks on several bakeries and shops owned by Albanians in several cities of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina.
Serbian officials have stated that the incident with the Greater Albania map is a serious political provocation and an attempt to cause unrest in Serbia and instability in the region and the Serbian Foreign Ministry sent a protest note to Albania.