Djuric: Secret indictments against Kosovo Serbs unacceptable form of political pressure

Serbian Ambassador to the USA Marko Djuric said that secret indictments against Serbs represented an unacceptable method of political pressure on the disenfranchised Serbian population in Kosovo, RTV reports.

"Their secrecy cannot be justified considering that the agreements, which were mediated by the European Union, envisioned mechanisms of mutual legal assistance between the central government in Belgrade and temporary institutions with the mediation of EULEX," Djuric explained to "Politika".

He pointed out that transparency in the actions of all institutions was a necessary precondition for establishing trust in them.

"But what kind of trust can we even talk about at the level of an individual if the collective political rights of an entire nation guaranteed even in the 'Kosovo' constitution are trampled on," Djuric asked.

The Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Petar Petkovic said on December 16 that the list for the arrest of 230 Serbs had been released, whom Pristina charged with alleged war crimes.

Four Serbs have been arrested in Kosovo recently, and Petkovic stated that it showed that Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti did not want to calm tensions but continued to hunt down Serbs.