Petkovic, Bunford discuss political and security situation in Kosovo-Metohija

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with Hungary's special Western Balkans envoy Zsolt Bunford in Belgrade on Thursday to discuss the political and security situation ahead of upcoming early elections in Kosovo-Metohija, as well as normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations within the framework of the Brussels dialogue.

Noting that Srpska lista had won the recent local elections in Kosovo-Metohija in all ten Serb-majority municipalities, Petkovic said it was now extremely important for the Serb party to take all ten seats allocated to the Serbs in the Pristina provincial assembly even though the Albin Kurti regime was again doing everything to prevent it from running in the upcoming elections and representing the interests of the Serbs.

"The Serb mayors in the north of Kosovo-Metohija have found catastrophic conditions, devastated and looted offices, desecrated icons and threatening messages, which is all a testimony to the shameful attitude the Kurti regime, the sham ethnic Albanian mayors and members of the so-called Kosovo police have demonstrated to the Serbs as a whole," Petkovic noted in an official statement.

He thanked Bunford for his understanding for the problems of the Kosovo-Metohija Serbs, as well as for Hungary's principled and constructive attitude to Serbia.

Petkovic noted that Belgrade would continue to act as a factor of peace and stability in the Western Balkan region and demonstrate a responsible attitude to the Brussels dialogue, even though Pristina, with Kurti at the helm, was doing everything to destroy the agreements reached to date and decidedly refusing to establish a Community of Serb Municipalities.