Office director Petkovic: Belgrade will consider sending up to 1,000 security forces to Kosovo

BELGRADE, 9 December – RIA Novosti. The Serbian leadership will consider the possibility of returning up to 1,000 members of the security forces to Kosovo and Metohija, in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1244, due to the controversial steps of the Kosovo and Metohija Office (KIM) director Pristina. Serbian government Petar Petkovic said at an extraordinary press conference.

On Friday night, he said that Kosovo “Prime Minister” Albin Kurti continues to carry out actions to “occupy the north of the Serb inhabited area”. According to Petkovic, about 350 Kosovo police officers, both patrols in bulletproof vests and ROSU special forces with automatic weapons, entered northern Kosovo from the direction of southern Mitrovica at 8:30 PM (22:30 Moscow time) and blockaded northern Kosovska-Mitrovica. took. In parts of the city with ethnically mixed populations.

“Belgrade will consider the return of about 1,000 of our security forces to the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1244 … President Aleksandar Vucic has repeatedly repeated that there will be no pogroms again. I think this is reasoning with Pristina in the West. It is not well understood by those who need it.”

Earlier, he recalled that armored vehicles belonging to the NATO mission KFOR on Wednesday and special forces of the Kosovo police ROSU on Thursday “accidentally” parked in the courtyard of a Serbian kindergarten in the village of Leposavich in the north of the region. alarmed children and parents.