| Tadić calls on UN, EU to protect Kosovo Serbs |
| 5 January 2009 | 17:21
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BELGRADE --
President Boris Tadić has sent a letter of protest to the UN and EU regarding the incidents in northern Kosovska Mitrovica against the Serb population.
 | Boris Tadić (FoNet, archive)
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The letter to UN Security Council member-states and Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon, as well as to the Czech Republic, which is currently presiding over the European Union.
According to the president’s cabinet, Tadić stated that KFOR, EULEX and UNMIK did not react in time in order to stop the attacks on Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica.
Tadić said that the “real intention of the Kosovo government and Albanian extremists to use violence in order to provoke conflicts with Serbs in order to stop the implementation of the six-point agreement reached between Serbia and the United Nations, which was confirmed by the Security Council.“
Kosovo Albanian leadership in Priština rejected that agreement, which Belgrade cited as its condition for approving EU mission EULEX's deployment in the province.
Tadić also demanded immediate measures to protect the Serbs who are in danger.
“There was a lack of adequate reactions by the peacekeeping forces which are obligated to protect and secure the Serbs who are the most endangered in Kosovo and Metojija."
"Such incidents can lead to a worsening of the overall security situation in Kosovo and I am therefore asking for officials of the international community to immediately increase the level of security and to prevent attacks against Kosovo Serbs,“ Tadić stated in his letter.
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