41 minutes agoSerbian cheeseists protest in Belgrade, oppose dialogue with Kosovo
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Right-wing opposition parties and rightist movements staged protests 16 December in front of the Serbian Presidency building in Belgrade. Protesters demanded from Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq, “to change Serbia's” policy towards Kosovo and suspend the negotiations under way in Brussels. Protest was organised at the time of increasing tensions between the two states, [...]
Right-wing opposition parties and rightist movements staged protests 16 December in front of the Serbian Presidency building in Belgrade. Protesters demanded from Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq, “to change Serbia's” policy towards Kosovo and suspend the negotiations under way in Brussels.
The protest was organised at the time of mounting tensions between the two states, as on December 10th, some local Serbs established barricades in northern Kosovo, indicating opposition to the arrest of former Serbian Kosovo Police Minister Dejan Pantic.
Pantic has been pronounced a month-long detention measure after allegedly organising “terrorist attacks on the Central Election Commission offices in northern Kosovo.
Protest organisers called for an end to dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, mediated by the European Union since 2011.
Right-wing opposition movement leader Dveri Bosko Obradovic, ahead of protesters, said the Kosovo issue should return to the United Nations and Security Council.
“Therefore must be sent a letter to the president of Russia, the president of China and all states in the world that do not recognise Kosovo's independence”, Obradovic said, REL reported.
At the UN Security Council are five states that are permanent members, including Russia and China, which do not recognise Kosovo's independence.
Obradovic also called for the annulment of the Brussels Agreement, signed by Kosovo and Serbia in 2013, within the dialogue for normalisation of relations.
One of the speakers at the protest was Mladen Obradovic, leader of the banned klerofashist organisation Obraz.
During addressing the protesters, he said the only solution to the Kosovo issue is for Serbs to join, courageously and decisively say éska surrender, no division and no secession of any part of Serbia, in any way”.
Protesters were seen holding placards with various messages like “in Prizren tomorrow and forever”, “There's a surrender “and Kosovo's “will only betray cowards”.
After the organisers' speeches, the protesters marched through the streets in downtown Belgrade towards the Russian Embassy, before which they cheered “Serbs and Russians, brothers forever”.
Protest ended before the Church of St. Sava, without incident. A small number of Serbian police officials provided for security in the protest.
