Kosovo police interrupt minister’s visit

Kosovo police, KPS, have interrupted the visit of Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović to the Serb enclave of Štrpce.

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 13.01.2010.

12:59

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Kosovo police, KPS, have interrupted the visit of Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic to the Serb enclave of Strpce. The enclave in located in the south of the province. Kosovo police interrupt minister’s visit Police told the minister that he “cannot move in that area without the Kosovo government permission”. After he visited the village of Sevce on his way to Strpce, Bogdanovic and his team were stopped by a large number of KPS members, including those from a “special unit”, dubbed “Rosa”, said reports. According to the same reports, Bogdanovic asked to see a written statement from the government in Pristina prohibiting him movement. But a regional KPS commanders said that he had an oral order that Bogdanovic “must leave Kosovo”. The armed members of KPS escorted the minister to the administrative line checkpoint of Merdare. Bogdanovic commented on the incident by saying that it was an ill thought-through move by Kosovo’s temporary authorities, since he was a resident of Kosovo and “as such, regardless of the ministerial office, had a right to free movement in Kosovo”. “This is a demonstration that there is no freedom of movement in Kosovo and that local Serbs, residents of Kosovo, myself included, are being denied our basic human right,” said he. Bogdanovic added that he “did not wish to create incidents”, and repeated that today’s events were “the best example of how Serbs live in Kosovo”.

Kosovo police interrupt minister’s visit

Police told the minister that he “cannot move in that area without the Kosovo government permission”.

After he visited the village of Sevce on his way to Štrpce, Bogdanović and his team were stopped by a large number of KPS members, including those from a “special unit”, dubbed “Rosa”, said reports.

According to the same reports, Bogdanović asked to see a written statement from the government in Priština prohibiting him movement. But a regional KPS commanders said that he had an oral order that Bogdanović “must leave Kosovo”.

The armed members of KPS escorted the minister to the administrative line checkpoint of Merdare.

Bogdanović commented on the incident by saying that it was an ill thought-through move by Kosovo’s temporary authorities, since he was a resident of Kosovo and “as such, regardless of the ministerial office, had a right to free movement in Kosovo”.

“This is a demonstration that there is no freedom of movement in Kosovo and that local Serbs, residents of Kosovo, myself included, are being denied our basic human right,” said he.

Bogdanović added that he “did not wish to create incidents”, and repeated that today’s events were “the best example of how Serbs live in Kosovo”.

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