Russian President Vladimir Putin will certainly bring a message that will encourage all Serbs in Kosovo, Minister of Innovation and Technological Development Nenad Popovic told state news agency Tanjug.
He says Putin will certainly say that Kosovo, for Russia is an inseparable part of Serbia and will continue to support UN Security Council Resolution 1244.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNMIK, Mr. Zahir Tanin, condemns the incident in Istog/Istok municipality which took place yesterday when two buses transporting Serb pilgrims were stoned.
“Such acts are unacceptable and competent authorities should investigate the case and bring perpetrators to justice,” SRSG Tanin stresses.
He reminds all of the fundamental rights to freedom of movement and freedom of religion.
RTS reports that a few days ago Kosovo Police searched the house of the Popovic family in Grace village. The police searched for weapons. According to RTS correspondant from Gracanica, weapons were not found but the owner of the house was arrested, and reportedly criminal charges were failed against him.
The police public report reads that a suspected Serb in Grace village was arrested and that an air rifle was seized and a rubber bat. Two criminal charges were filed against the arrested person, reports RTS.
The recent arrests of Serbs in Kosovo are part of the pressure on the local Serbs, Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic told Belgrade based TV Prva on Thursday, reports Serbian media.
According to the minister, the Serbs are being pressured into accepting the forming of a Kosovo military and into considering whether there is room for them in Kosovo.
The Serbian List MP Igor Simic says that the international community silence regarding the arrest of five Serbs in Gnjilane is causing uneasiness among the Serbs in Kosovo.
“The international community’s silence on such a brutal force is something that is causing uneasiness among the Serbs in Kosovo. It simply mustn’t happen, especially when we are in the negotiation phase,'' Simic told TV Prva, based in Belgrade.
"Nobody can justify this by individual incidents, it is a synchronized action, which should cause fear among the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, above all fear for the future. And a message is sent for the Serbs who want to return that their neighbours might wait for them with stones.''
In a few minutes, Budimir Nicic, a journalist from Caglavica, told the public during his appearance in TV Happy show, what he sees as today's situation of the Kosovo Serbs. "There is a silent departure there. Every day, the property is sold, people sell, they go, obviously nobody is interested, neither our representatives down there nor in Belgrade. People are discriminated against by everyone," it was Nicic's message, reported portal Kossev.
During his visit to Moscow, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic while talking to the Russian journalists “said the number of untruths” and “two are noticeable” an opposition Fatherland (Otadzbina) Movement said, KoSSev portal reported.
Two Serbian officials, Dusan Kozarev, Deputy Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic spoke in two different continents, at the important events about ethnically motivated crimes in Kosovo, KoSSev portal reported.
Slobodan Petrovic, was elected again as a President of the Autonomous Liberal Party (SLS) at yesterday’s session in Gracanica, Kontakt plus radio reported today.