Kosovo police on Wednesday raided 10 Belgrade-linked government offices in ethnic Serb areas, the interior ministry said, the latest move by Pristina to dismantle a Serbian system of social services and political offices in the country ahead of parliamentary elections.
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Kosovo's authorities say they have closed all so-called parallel institutions used by the country's ethnic Serb minority and financially supported by neighboring Serbia.
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Ethnic Serbs living in Kosovo have denounced raids by authorities on municipal offices in 10 Serbia-backed areas. The January 15 raids are part of an effort by the government in Pristina to close so-called parallel institutions that give neighboring Serbia leverage in its former province.
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petković, said today that the terror of Pristina calls into question the dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo, and that the responsibility also lies with the European Union.
Kosovo authorities on Wednesday raided 10 Belgrade-backed municipal offices in ethnic Serb areas, according to the interior ministry, just weeks ahead of parliamentary elections.
Kosovo authorities say they have closed all so-called parallel institutions used by the ethnic Serb minority and supported by neighboring Serbia in a move condemned by the European Union
Serbia denounced the raids as a "dangerous escalation" just weeks ahead of the vote in majority-Albanian Kosovo, whose independence Serbia has refused to recognise. Animosity between Kosovo and ...
The Council of the European Union has appointed Danish diplomat Peter Sorensen as new EU special representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, it said on M