PM receives new chief of EU mission in Kosovo

Source: Tanjug

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić met on Monday with the new head of the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, Bernd Borchardt.

(Tanjug)

According to a government statement, Dačić during the meeting "insisted that EULEX, together with KFOR and UNMIK, should secure full protection of citizens in Kosovo and Metohija".
Dačić expressed his concern over various forms of ethnic violence against Serbs and other members of the non-Albanian communities in Kosovo, who are still prevented from exercising basic rights and freedoms.

“The Serbian government is ready for a coordinated cooperation with the EULEX mission, which is due to be status-neutral and to secure safety and enforcement of rights of all citizens in line with international acts and standards,” Dačić said.

The Serbian prime minister noted that the international missions UNMIK, KFOR and EULEX have a mandate under which they should maintain stability in the territory of entire Kosovo and Metohija.

Serbia is ready to continue and promote the cooperation, particularly at the operative level, in the fight against organized crime and investigation of crimes and human organ trafficking, Dačić said.

"The truth should be determined professionally, particularly bearing in mind the information on destruction of evidence which was disclosed in the investigations to date, and therefore Serbia insists that the UN should have an important role in these investigation procedures," the prime minister underlined in the talks with the EULEX head