President, ministers visit south

President Boris Tadić says that yesterday’s attack on Gendarmerie members was an act of terrorism, but that the state will not respond with excessive force.

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Friday, 10.07.2009.

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President Boris Tadic says that yesterday’s attack on Gendarmerie members was an act of terrorism, but that the state will not respond with excessive force. On a visit to a Serbian police (MUP) Gendarmerie base in the Ground Safety Zone (GSZ), Tadic said that those responsible for yesterday’s attack, where two Gendarmerie members were wounded, would be treated as an act of terrorism. President, ministers visit south He said that Serbia would respond to this attack and any future, similar ones with patience, but decisiveness. The president said that the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja had to bear their share of the responsibility for the situation in the south of the country, as did the international community, which was responsible for the security situation in Kosovo. Tadic is visiting the GSZ together with Interior Minister Ivica Dacic and Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac, as well as the chief-of-general-staff, the heads of the security services and military intelligence, and the Gendarmerie commander. In the attack, which Dacic qualified as a “terrorist attack,” officers Nenad Nikolic and Milos Cerovic both sustained injuries and were transferred to the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade to receive treatment. Besides the village of Lucani near Bujanovac, the scene of the attack, the president and ministers are also due to visit a number of police and army bases nearby. The precarity of the situation is borne out by the fact that neither Serb nor Albanian political leaders were present in, or indeed anywhere near, Bujanovac yesterday. After news of the attack broke, they all canceled their official engagements and returned to the town. An inquest established that a grenade had fallen just a few meters from the two police vehicles, after which the attackers had opened fire on the Gendarmes, to which the latter had responded in like. Dacic said that there was intelligence information suggesting that organized, illegal transfer of weapons and ammunitions over the administrative line was a regular occurrence. Ivica Dacic, Boris Tadic, Dragan Sutanovac (FoNet)

President, ministers visit south

He said that Serbia would respond to this attack and any future, similar ones with patience, but decisiveness.

The president said that the municipalities of Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa had to bear their share of the responsibility for the situation in the south of the country, as did the international community, which was responsible for the security situation in Kosovo.

Tadić is visiting the GSZ together with Interior Minister Ivica Dačič and Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac, as well as the chief-of-general-staff, the heads of the security services and military intelligence, and the Gendarmerie commander.

In the attack, which Dačić qualified as a “terrorist attack,” officers Nenad Nikolić and Miloš Cerović both sustained injuries and were transferred to the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade to receive treatment.

Besides the village of Lučani near Bujanovac, the scene of the attack, the president and ministers are also due to visit a number of police and army bases nearby.

The precarity of the situation is borne out by the fact that neither Serb nor Albanian political leaders were present in, or indeed anywhere near, Bujanovac yesterday.

After news of the attack broke, they all canceled their official engagements and returned to the town.

An inquest established that a grenade had fallen just a few meters from the two police vehicles, after which the attackers had opened fire on the Gendarmes, to which the latter had responded in like.

Dačić said that there was intelligence information suggesting that organized, illegal transfer of weapons and ammunitions over the administrative line was a regular occurrence.

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