Today marks Vidovdan's holiday, police with appeals: Avoid Pressures

Kosovo police say they have taken the necessary measures to manage the security situation and manage activities during manifestations for vidovdan”.

It has appealed to all participants to manifest calmness and avoid provocations.

“Linked to “Vidovdan”, which is expected to be held on June 28th 2025, Kosovo Police (PK), has in time undertaken planning and operational measures for managing the security situation, preserving public order, managing road traffic and border management”, the Kosovo Police report said.

Police have suggested they have held an official meeting regarding plans and operational measures planned for Vidovdan.

“From the top management has been unveiled the details of the operational plan, with which all representatives of local and international institutions -- who were participating in the” meeting -- are being disclosed further in the police announcement.

In addition, police authorities are said to have seen necessary planning, co-ordinating, preventing and operating measures in all departments and police areas so that manifestations in the locations where they are envisioned can develop smoothly and without incident.

“Through this official announcement, Kosovo Police APELON to all citizens and participants to appear peacefully, to avoid any possible provocations, to respect the laws and instructions of the Kosovo Police, which will be present with its units for security offerings and preventing any illegal action”, it is said in the appeal police have addressed participants in this manifestation.

They have also sought citizens' understanding with the case of temporary deadlock or possible traffic reorientation. Kosovo's “Police remain committed to implementing its legal tasks and authorisations, managing the security situation, implementing the RKS Constitution in the function of ensuring a safe and secure environment for all citizens indiscriminately”, said at the end of this announcement distributed by Kosovo Police.

In office Prime Minister Albin Kurti, yesterday during the cabinet meeting, has said there are warnings of destabilisation in Vidovdan's footnote -- this religious holiday, traditionally organised by Serbs on June 28th in Gazimestan. Kurti said that although this day has religious character, it has unfortunately been misused by Belgrade authorities to convey political, promotional and threatening rhetoric to public security in Kosovo.

Official Belgrade that is facing worldwide student protests and is not only trying to shift attention elsewhere. In this effort to reduce the size of the antigovernmental and anti-regimation protest on the same day in Belgrade, power in Serbia can exploit destructive elements to spur incidents in Gazimenstan”, Kurti said.

He further said that, according to estimates from Kosovo's security and intelligence institutions, efforts are being made for the rally in Gazimestan to be as massive as possible. The prime minister said groups of Serbs from Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina have been organised to come to Kosovo, and that these groups have traditionally been provocative by carrying nationalist Serb and Russian symbols that contradict the Constitution and are also against democratic and European values.

“We call on all of our fellow citizens, especially among the Serb community in Kosovo to respect the law and refuse to be misused for political purposes. We call on all our countrymen not to fall prey to any provocation by anyone on tomorrow's”, Kurti stressed.

He said gatherings for Vidovdan's footnote should be organised in full compliance with the law.

“subventions for Vidovdan's footnote should be organised in full compliance with the law and not turn into a tool for political instrumentisation by the authorities in Belgrade, which tend to export the internal political crisis through provocations in Kosovo, only to be introduced later as a patron of their national and Serb interests in Kosovo through propagandistic and kler-nationalist laro. The institutions of the Republic of Kosovo are committed to guaranteeing the rights and freedoms of all communities and will not tolerate actions that violate, order security and public peace in Kosovo”, he said. / RTK/