Serbian Government Office for Kosovo in the strongest terms protested over the arrest of Red Cross officials and raid by the police into their premises, warning that “misuse of humanitarian issues for political purposes brings no good to anyone”.

The Office’s press statement further reads it is important to lower the tension in Kosovo, adding that “this shameful action is a part of clashes of the old and new political structures in Pristina and internal Albanian conflict, which is a consequence of a transition of authority in the provisional institutions of the self-governance”.