The Serbian List called on EU officials yesterday to publicly explain the statement made by EU Head of the Kosovo Office Nataliya Apostolova that ethnic-motivated attacks on the Serbs in Kosovo are starting to look as 'tit-for- tat', report Serbian media.

Normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia is “the most complicated process in the Balkans at the moment”, according to the head of the EU’s office in Pristina. But both sides need steady encouragement from the international community to reach a final solution and progress towards EU membership.

Serbian media based in Kosovo reports that the Serbian List caucus held a meeting with representatives of the Quint. Although the ambassadors were not present at the meeting, the Serbian List MPs asked a pressure to be exerted on central institutions in order that Serbs and other non-majority people are protected in the areas in which the past few days, ethnically motivated attacks were recorded.

Several persons entered yesterday the schoolyard in the village of Suvi Do, near Lipljan, broke an entry door and harassed pupils who were on the sport playground, Serbian media reported.

Education staff from the school told RTS, pupils informed them that several men, speaking in Albanian and English, demolished the school entry door with metal bars. While they were approaching the school, these persons hurled insults and uttered obscenities to the Serb children.

Member of Srpska Lista, Igor Simic told RTS Serbia’s progress does not go in favour of some people and that is why they are trying to drag Serbia into a vortex of instability.

Simic made these remarks commenting on frequent attacks against Serbs and their properties over the last days in Kosovo and Metohija.

He added it is about synchronized attacks in areas where Serbs are in minority, and their aim is to intimidate returnees and remaining Serbs in Kosovo.

Two Serb houses were stoned last night, after the midnight, in the centre of Vitina, Serbian media reported today.

One house belongs to Slobodanka Savic, while the other one belongs to a Kosovo police inspector, working in Gnjilane, Aleksandar Jacovic, whose car’s windshield is also broken, media further reported.

The cases are reported to the Kosovo police and there are no injuries apart from material damage caused.

Following the March pogrom in 2004, around 40 Serbs remained living in Vitina.

Unknown perpetrators, have stolen last night, a cow and a calf belonging to a Serb Nisic family in Klokot, RTV Puls reported.

This is not the first time that thieves are attacking the property of this family. This is the seventh incident and none of the previous cases have been resolved, RTV Puls added.

“In the last one year they have stolen everything, from five tones of wheat, 170 hens, doves, burglarized the house, even stole food from the refrigerator,” Zoran Nisic told RTV Puls, repeating the police did not resolve any of the cases.

Serbs who have remained in Staro Gracko after the conflict, on a daily basis are facing provocations by young Albanians living in that part of the village, Gorica Matovic, whose family members were injured in an incident on Wednesday, told RTV KIM.

The situation, following the incident, that left three Matovic family members injured, including a 6-month old baby, is calm but tense, RTV KIM further said.

The Diocese appeals on peace and respect of the rule of law after most recent series of security incidents in Kosovo and Metohija.

Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Raška-Prizren strongly condemns the latest series of incidents which indicate that there is a serious deterioration of the security situation in which Serbs with their Orthodox Church live in Kosovo and Metohija.

Three persons of Serb ethnicity are injured in clash with Albanians and due to police intervention in the village of Staro Gracko, nearby Lipljan, RTS correspondent Andrija Igic reported.

A medical care was provided to injured persons, including a 6-month old baby, in a health house in Laplje Selo. Police detained one Albanian and one Serb, RTS further reported.

Injured Serbs are from the same Matovic family. The oldest Gorica said that group of Albanians was verbally harassing her daughter in law and a neighbour while they were walking in the village with their children.