Dacic: Security situation stable, we will continue to protect constitutional order

BELGRADE - The security situation in Serbia is stable and authorities will continue coordinated activities to protect the country's constitutional and legal order, the head of Serbia's Bureau for Coordination of Security Services Ivica Dacic said on Monday.

Earlier, the bureau met to analyse the security situation following Sunday's attempt by protesters to enter the Old Palace - the City Hall - in central Belgrade by force.

We condemned in the strongest terms the act of violent entry into institutions - those were not political protests but an attempt to take power through violence, Dacic said after the bureau's session.

"The security situation was analysed. Of course, it was concluded that the security situation in Serbia is stable in spite of the numerous challenges that have been present in recent days and in spite of the fact an announcement of these violent activities, primarily aimed at seizing institutions through violence and destroying the constitutional order, had been talked about for weeks beforehand," Dacic noted, adding that "all elements of the security system will continue coordinated activities to protect the constitutional order."

Besides the members of the bureau - comprised of Dacic and the chiefs of the Security Information Agency, the Military Intelligence Agency and the Military Security Agency - the session was also attended by the ministers of interior, defence and justice and representatives of the public prosecutor's office.