Ristic: Threat emailed to Tanjug came from Albania

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Information and Telecommunications Dejan Ristic said a death threat to Tanjug journalists emailed to the agency on Monday had come from the territory of Albania.

Ristic said the location the email had been sent from had already been identified and that communication had been established with Microsoft.

"Besides activities with the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade and the Interior Ministry, we are informing the European Federation of Journalists and other international journalist organisations to familiarise them with developments in the territory of our southern province (of Kosovo-Metohija) when it comes to the position of Serbs in that context as well as the position and threats to the personal safety of journalists - those in Kosovo-Metohija as well as those from newsrooms based in Belgrade and elsewhere who occasionally go to Kosovo-Metohija on work assignments," Ristic told Tanjug.

The Tanjug news agency received on Monday an email signed by an individual named "Trim Bardhi" that said Tanjug journalists would get "a bullet to the back of their heads" the next time they set foot in the territory of Serbia's autonomous province of Kosovo-Metohija.