Vucic: I have pointed out issue of safety of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs to Lajcak

NIS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday he had pointed out the issue of the safety of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs to the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak.

Asked by a reporter to comment on a recent beating of a young Serb man near Lipljan, Kosovo-Metohija, Vucic said he would raise the issue of the safety of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija at Thursday's Brussels meeting of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

"All I can say is that I have already spoken with Miroslav Lajcak to point out the problem. I will keep doing that and I will point out the problem on Thursday," Vucic said during a tour of the construction site of a Palfinger factory in Nis.

Three ethnic Albanians whose identities remain unknown beat up 21-year-old Strahinja Petrovic from Gracanica on a road to the Dobrotin village near Lipljan on Sunday evening.

In a statement to Tanjug, Petrovic confirmed the case had been reported to the so-called Kosovo Police.