The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vuiqi., Stated that the Serbs are satisfied that the Kosovo Special Forces withdrew from their positions at the border crossings between Serbia and Kosovo, respectively in Jarinje and Brnjak.

“It was tense and there was harassment of our people, such as ‘Take away a truck, then take it all away.’ You see the enthusiasm of our people when their forces withdrew from northern Kosovo,” Vucic told Serbian television Prva “from Dubai.

Speaking about the agreement between the two countries in Brussels, which overcame the crisis in Kosovo caused by the strengthening of the temporary license plates of the Republic of Kosovo for vehicles from Serbia, Vucic said that there are no easy agreements or even “nothing easy for Serbia”.

He stated that Serbia “actually” has not been present in Kosovo since 1999, after which “an expulsion took place in 2004, and in 2008 independence was declared”.

“Since then, we have fought to keep our noses, if not our mouths, above water. To maintain security for our people in Kosovo. You are fighting in conditions in which the entire western hemisphere is pressuring you to hand over what has remained from your nose “, said Vuiqiiq.

The president of the neighboring country said that Serbs in Kosovo “do not like” KFOR because of the NATO attacks on Serbia in 1999, but added that NATO and KFOR are “the only real defense” there. “Unfortunately, there were Russians too, but they withdrew, and NATO remained.”

He said he did not believe the Association of Serb-majority municipalities would be created, “because he knows who Serbia is dealing with”. / Voice

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said that Serbia has only increased its readiness, according to him, after what happened with the reciprocity of license plates.

“Serbia did not raise the army and police, Serbia only raised the readiness,” he told tvPink, Klankosova.tv reports.

He also spoke about the conversation he had with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

“Despite this, we told him unequivocally, and I told Stoltenberg clearly and loudly today: We will not enter with our troops. We do not want to endanger the peace in any way. We need more peace. We will wait for you for 24 hours to react like NATO. “Only if the violence against our population continues after that, Serbia will react and will not allow at all what happened in ’95 and 2004.”

“And as you can see, I’m speaking publicly. “I am sure that the people in NATO understood me very well and that they will take all measures to protect the Serb population.”

Obstacles as a form of protest, always used by northern Serbs, are the same this time.

Large trucks that have been blocking the road for four days have been joined by gravel in the middle of the road, which sends them to border points 1 and 31, Jarinje and Brnjak.

This was confirmed for KlanKosovo by the spokesperson of the Kosovo Police, Baki Kelani.

“The situation is almost the same. There are obstacles on both sides. It is now a part of the gravel that they have placed as an obstacle. The situation is generally calm and as always the Kosovo Police is doing its job in the best way. “, He said.

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According to the “Novosti” reporter from the scene, KFOR helicopters are in charge of Jarinje.

As of this morning, members of the Rosu special unit have been searching citizens who walked to central Serbia at the Jarinje crossing, because they cannot cross otherwise.

The crossing was blocked in both directions, and dissatisfied Serbs from the north of Kosovo and Metohija gathered in Jarinje to protest against the decision of the Pristina authorities to introduce reciprocal measures towards Serbia and the order that all vehicles with Serbian license plates enter the so-called Kosovo must put trial Kosovo plates.

The so-called police. Yesterday, Kosovo installed several prefabricated containers at the crossings for that purpose, and since this morning, the crossings Brnjak and Jarinje have been occupied by members of the special police brigade Rosu, who according to information from the field are located throughout the north of Kosovo and Metohija.

Petar Prković attended the holy liturgy in Prilužje in the church dedicated to the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord and announced that the Government of Serbia and its President Aleksandar Vučić will fight even more and even harder for Vushtrri and all Serbian communities in Kosovo and Metohija in the coming period.

“Today, we are witnessing that unity here, in front of this temple, because the state of Serbia and the Serbian List and our church are present here. Only united and united can we survive and stay here in Kosovo and Metohija,” Petkovic said after the liturgy.

Petković also conveyed the greetings of President Vučić, when he stated that he was doing everything to defend Serbian national interests in Kosovo and Metohija.

“We are here to help and fight even more for the municipality of Vushtrri, for our institutions, for new jobs and for many other investments and projects that the Office for Kosovo and Metohija through the Government of Serbia really not only initiates, but also finances, but also ends “, stated Petković.

He said that only together, the church and the state of Serbia and the Serbian List are the guarantor of the survival and stay of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija.

“We are here on our own, we want peace here, we want new jobs and we will do that as the Government of Serbia and President Vučić. The other day, President Vučić made it clear that neither the pogrom nor the ‘Storm’ will ever happen again. “That is why you can be sure, because your state of Serbia is with you, and we will do everything we can to help you have a life worthy of a man in the 21st century here,” Petkovic said.

Previously, the Bishop of Raska and Prizren, Teodosije, with the clergy in Prilužje, served the liturgy in front of several hundred believers, cut the feast cake and consecrated and distributed the Transfiguration grapes.

In his sermon, Bishop Teodosije said that if we want to be transformed in this life, we must climb Mount Tabor and rise above transient and temporary values, and we can only climb through virtue, through fasting, prayer, all the good deeds we need to do. .

Priluzje is the largest Serbian village between Kosovska Mitrovica and Pristina, with several hundred households and several thousand inhabitants.

The Beer Festival organized in Korça will return this year from August 18-22.

Among the participants, it is noticeable that the Serbian singer Goran Bregovic will also be invited.

This news was confirmed by the festival organizers themselves, who consider Bregovic as a special guest of the final night.

This news was not well received by Kosovo Albanians, who consider Goran Bregovic as one of the artists who inspired the massacres of Serbs against Kosovo.

Bregovic was the inspiration and idol of the Serbian army during the war in Kosovo, especially with the song “Kal.ashnikov”.

This news has been reported in the Kosovo media and Vesa Luma has also reacted in relation to it.

Not believing this news, she writes in a post: “I am convinced that it is a misinformation”.

But then she received a message from a “fan” from Albania that shocked her.

The person in question writes that Kosovo Albanians should forget the war and already make peace with Serbs.

But what has revived the artist the most is that fans say that Serbs should have killed more Kosovo Albanians.

“Why not be invited, you Kosovars are left with paranoia, after the war comes peace.

“Even though the war is over, you are boiling with blood for hatred, because some Kosovars I have known have left the Serbs alive in vain”, writes the fans.

Vesa has shared this message with everyone and writes on the side: “How is it possible that hundreds of messages like this come to me… is it possible? I am totally in shock… “.

The incident follows the seizure of a Serb-occupied border crossing post in the northern region by Kosovar police forces.

Ethnic Serbs set fire to a border crossing in northern Kosovo after the Kosovar government said it had regained control of the post and a second post, officials said.

Serbian State Secretary for Kosovo Oliver Ivanovic said no one was injured in Wednesday’s incident, but raised concerns about further violence.

“An act of violence creates more violence. I’m afraid we’re getting caught in a spiral of violence, ”he told Reuters.

Armed ethnic Serbs also shot at NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo in the ethnic-Serbian-dominated north of the country on Wednesday.

“The situation at the Jarinje customs post has deteriorated and it has been confirmed that arson was committed against this position,” said a statement by the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR).

“There are also confirmed reports of shooting at nearby KFOR personnel,” the statement said.

The NATO statement did not say whether someone was injured in the attack or whether KFOR troops returned fire, but reinforcements had been sent to the border.

Kosovo attack

On Monday, armed police forces from Kosovo marched into the Serbs-led north to station troops in a region taking orders from Serbia, the Associated Press said.

In an exchange of fire between police and local Serbs against Kosovo’s efforts to take control of its border guards, a Kosovar police officer was shot in the head and died on Tuesday, with four others injured.

The same border post was burned down by local Serbs in 2008 after Kosovo declared independence.

The European Union had previously condemned the measures taken by Kosovo to control the two controversial border crossings with Serbia.

The Kosovar Prime Minister Hashim Thaci justified the operation on Tuesday by saying that it was a “concrete step towards establishing the rule of law” in the north.

He said cooperation with the international community is important, but “the constitution and sovereignty of my country are sacred to me and my compatriots and go beyond any partnership or loyalty”.

Not helpful

At a press conference, however, Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for the EU Commission, described Kosovo’s unilateral approach in the region as “not helpful”.

“It was not done in consultation with the European Union or the international community and we do not approve of it,” she said.

In Washington, President Barack Obama reiterated Kocijancic’s views but stopped condemning Kosovo.

Although Kosovo separated from Serbia in 2008, Serbia does not recognize its independence.

In order to undermine Kosovo’s claim to sovereignty, Serbia has stationed its troops in the northern region and forced a boycott of goods from Kosovo.

Kosovo wants to maintain control of the north and enforce a similar ban on Serbian goods.

Negotiations fail when Serbs in northern Kosovo oppose NATO demands to lift the roadblocks erected in July.

Ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo have resisted NATO demands to remove roadblocks they erected almost three months ago to prevent the ethnic Albanian leadership from expanding their control over the predominantly Serb-populated part of Kosovo.

The Serbs have called for the use of troops and police from Serbia, and a meeting convened for Wednesday to resolve the crisis ended in failure, said Aljosa Milenkovic of Al Jazeera, who reported from Mitrovica in northern Kosovo.

The stalemate comes more than a decade after Serb forces were driven from Kosovo by NATO bombs.

The barricades were erected in July by Kosovar Serbs – who do not recognize Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 – and stand at two controversial border points with Serbia.

Clashes broke out after earlier attempts by the NATO peacekeeping force (KFOR), which had patrolled Kosovo and assumed a UN administration since the Serb forces withdrew in 1999. In 2008 it was replaced by a European Union Mission (EULEX).

Al Jazeera’s Milenkovic said the meeting between KFOR and the Serbs had yielded no results and that the KFOR commander had “apparently left the negotiating table not satisfied with the offer that the Serbs have put on the table”.

He said the Serbs had offered KFOR full freedom of movement in northern Kosovo without lifting the roadblocks.

A statement after a meeting of local Serbian leaders said: “Serbia and the UN Security Council should facilitate the return of parts of the (Serbian) army and police and their deployment in northern Kosovo.”

Negotiated solution

KFOR has not yet commented, but its German commander, General Erhard Drews, previously said he was disappointed with the defiance of the Kosovar Serbs.

He said the peacekeepers would remove the roadblocks themselves unless the Serbs changed their mind.

Serbian media said Serbian President Boris Tadic had previously asked Serbs from northern Kosovo to seek a negotiated solution with KFOR and remain peaceful.

Serbia is still effectively governing Serb-dominated northern Kosovo, but is under pressure to help resolve the impasse after the European Commission made future EU accession talks conditional on its cooperation with the Kosovar government.

Local Serb leaders in Zubin Potok, about 100 km north of Pristina and near one of the intersections, said the roads would remain closed but agreed to speak to KFOR about their supply convoys being able to reach the peaches deployed there.

However, they later accused KFOR of derailing the negotiations by insisting that EULEX vehicles should also be allowed to cross the border. The Serbs fear that EULEX will escort customs officials from Pristina to take over the border crossings.

“KFOR wants to solve this by force and will be responsible for new developments,” said Radenko Nedeljkovic, the head of Mitrovica district.

The Serbs have also urged Belgrade to end its European Union-sponsored talks with the Kosovar government in Pristina on practical issues such as the flow of people and goods, property issues, energy supplies and travel documents.

Serbia lost control of Kosovo in 1999 after 78 days of NATO bombing to stop the killing and displacement of Albanian civilians by Serb forces in a two-year counterinsurgency war.

More than 80 countries, including the United States and most of the European Union, have recognized the new country.

The report, presented in Pristina, covers the exercise of the rights of non-majority peoples in Kosovo and Metohija from December 2015 to December 2019.

“Interethnic relations have improved since the last report (2015). There are still significant divisions between Serbs and Albanians, but social and institutional interaction has improved and there have been no cases of collective or major interethnic violence. Relations between the Kosovo Albanian majority community and others non-majority communities remained functional and positive, “the report said.

It was stated that there are tensions between the communities regarding the return of displaced persons and that this problem exists and is repeated.

“Receiving communities in various locations continue to express resistance to the return or integration of displaced persons,” the UNHCR said, adding that by 2019, 28,302 displaced persons, most of them Serbs, had returned to Kosovo.

“The rate of return has been declining every year since 2000, and UNHCR estimates that there are 16,151 displaced persons in Kosovo. There are still a large number of security incidents in the places of return. These acts range from petty thefts to fires and attacks. the acts may have a predominantly economic motive, and a negative impression of security has intensified among returnees, as many perpetrators have escaped justice. “

“This, together with the opinion of communities on crimes against returnees, contributes to a negative impression of security for returnees and thus prevents the return process,” the OSCE report said.

In the period from July 2015 to December 2019, the OSCE recorded 1,621 security incidents, including incidents targeting religious buildings and cemeteries, as well as the cultural heritage of communities.

A fifth of the incidents are in places where Serbs want to return

The OSCE noted that 20.79 per cent of the incidents were directed against the place of return and mostly Serb returnees. Most of the incidents were burglaries in uninhabited Serb houses, repeated petty thefts of returnees’ movable property, illegal logging, and incidents most often occurred where a significant rate of return was recorded, such as the municipalities of Peja, Istok and Klina.

The report states that the response of municipalities to the host community’s opposition to return varies considerably, from case to case, and that in most sensitive return locations, municipalities did not mediate in support of the return process.

The findings of the Office of the Language Commissioner, which indicate very limited or no progress in respecting language rights in municipalities, are also transmitted.

When it comes to the property rights of communities, criminal and litigation cases of fraudulent property transactions have been registered in courts throughout Kosovo and Metohija, and they are especially endemic in the region of Peja. From 2010 to 2019, proceedings were conducted in that city for 1,516 criminal cases of fraudulent property transactions.

Milorad Dodik believes that at this moment, “all this will be repeated in some way”, if there were opportunities for that, as it was in 1991.

He pointed out that for him, the amount of hatred that still exists is impressive, RTRS reports.

He is of the opinion that almost every day could mark some of the suffering of the Serbian people, as well as that every child should know and learn what the policy of the NDH has led to – kill a third of Serbs, cross a third and disperse a third.

Dodik said that we must not allow basic values ​​to be lost, but gain comfort, and said that we must work on raising awareness of the importance of Republika Srpska “which arose in the blood and freedom that, unlike other peoples, the Serbian people did not teach to the occupiers with open arms “.

“That is why my appeal is here as well – let’s gather around Republika Srpska, which is the only ‘political party’ that is worth it. Everything else is a caricature,” Dodik said.

He also assessed that “no matter how much evil the Ustashas inflicted,” the Serbian people also exterminated the communists.

For the first time, organized attention was paid to children

The Minister of Labor and Veterans’ and Disabled Protection of the Republic of Srpska, Dusko Milunovic, said that the Committee of the Government of the Republic of Srpska for nurturing the tradition of liberation wars has so far established 31 events of national importance, which, as he stated, caused the turbulent history of the Serbian people. war.

“Now, for the first time, we are paying attention to children in an organized manner. 74,642 of them were killed. That is what we know. Only three cities in Republika Srpska have more inhabitants than the Ustashas killed children from these areas,” Milunovic said.

He announced that Šušnjar near Sanski Most will be included in these events, because 5,500 Serbs, Jews and Roma were killed there in a few days without a shot being fired, and the importance, as he emphasized, is even greater because he is in the Federation of BiH.

Bećković: Memory is the only revenge

Academician Matija Bećković stated that the only Serbian geography is “jamography”, and memory is the only revenge, and that the name of the hamlet of Macura in Gornji Jelovac near Prijedor would forever shine on that map, testifying that he was not bypassed by genocide either.

Parastos near the mass grave in the hamlet of Macura, where 312 killed from Jelovac and surrounding villages were buried, including 75 children under the age of 14, was attended by other ministers in the Republika Srpska government, deputies of the Republika Srpska National Assembly, leaders of Potkozarje towns and municipalities. .

Among those present were representatives of the Third Infantry / Republika Srpska / Regiment, SUBNOR of Republika Srpska, non-governmental organizations and associations of public interest arising from the defense-patriotic war of Republika Srpska, as well as actress Biljana Cekic who played “Daru from Jasenovac”.

They laid wreaths and flowers on the monument.