Petkovic walks out of Brussels meeting over Pristina's latest moves in Serb communities

BRUSSELS - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic walked out of Brussels discussions on Wednesday over Pristina's and Albin Kurti's institutional violence against Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija and a closure of numerous Serbian institutions in the province earlier in the day, a source in Belgrade's delegation has told Tanjug.

Petkovic is also Belgrade's chief negotiator in the dialogue with Pristina.

A Belgrade-Pristina commission on missing persons was due to meet in Brussels on Wednesday to mark the start of implementation of agreements reached in the dialogue.

The source said current conditions, created by Kurti to undermine the dialogue and an agreement on missing persons, made the holding of the meeting impossible.

The so-called Kosovo Police raided all buildings of Serbian government institutions south of the Ibar River in Kosovo-Metohija this morning, seizing the buildings of the interim authorities in Gracanica, Kosovo Polje, Lipljan, Orahovac, Gnjilane, Vucitrn, Ugljare and the Coordination Centre offices in Novi Badovac.

In a post on X, Petkovic wrote that Pristina and Kurti had chosen a path of violence and unilateral moves and that such moves put the dialogue itself into question.