Petkovic informs Dutch ambassador of situation in Kosovo-Metohija

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with Dutch Ambassador to Belgrade Martijn Elgersma on Wednesday to inform him of progress in the Brussels dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, as well as of Pristina's escalatory moves against the Serbs that are undermining peace and destroying a normalisation of relations.

Petkovic especially noted that Belgrade expected the international community to, for its part, put Pristina under pressure to stop its unlawful and unilateral moves that were detrimental to the Serb population and, instead, start establishing a Community of Serb Municipalities, for which the Serbs have been waiting for a full 12 years, the Office said in a statement.

Petkovic said Pristina did not want any compromise or sustainable agreement in the dialogue because it wanted to expel the Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija through daily escalatory moves, arbitrary arrests, political persecution of the Serbs and Srpska lista officials and institutional and physical terror and to complete a policy of ethnic cleansing.

"For us, dialogue remains the most important venue for a resolution of all outstanding issues between Belgrade and Pristina, but dialogue takes good will and dependability on both sides, which Pristina is unfortunately not showing, but demonstrating a policy of force, unilateral moves and provocations," Petkovic noted.