Guyon: Since the beginning of the year, 80 ethnically motivated attacks on Serbs in Kosovo

Commenting on the summer trips organized by the humanitarian organization "Solidarity for Kosovo," of which he is the founder, the Director of the Office for Public and Cultural Diplomacy, Arno Guyon, stated that these children have never experienced freedom and that during the seven-day summer trip, they can "breathe freely." Guyon emphasized that there have been 80 ethnically motivated attacks on Serbs in Kosovo since the beginning of the year, as reported by RTS.

For more than a decade, the humanitarian organization "Solidarity for Kosovo" has been organizing summer trips for children from Kosovo, and this year, 600 children participated.

"Children from Kosovo and Metohija have never been free; they have never left their villages or enclaves. When we take them to the sea, they can breathe freely for those seven days, socialize, and not feel threatened," Guyon emphasized.

Guyon mentioned that since the beginning of the year, there have been 80 ethnically motivated attacks on Serbs.

"Since Albin Kurti came to power in 2021, attacks have increased by 300 percent. These children live in such conditions. All of this affects their state and psyche. We enable them to escape from that difficult everyday life and give them the freedom to be children," Guyon said.

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Serbia in six days, and Guyon says that cultural and economic cooperation will certainly be discussed during the visit, as well as areas of energy and military-technical cooperation.

"Today, Serbia possesses various systems produced in France, such as radars from the 'Thales' company, as well as short-range air defense systems. It is important to show that Serbia, as a militarily neutral country, can talk to everyone and gain respect from all," Guyon emphasized.

Speaking about the "Digital Diplomacy" project, Guyon says that through this project, there will be a response to negative and inaccurate information about Serbia abroad, and Serbia's cultural values will be promoted in foreign languages.

Arno Guyon said that over the past 30 years, many lies about Serbia have been written and published in foreign media.

"We want to respond to every lie that is spoken by sending corrections, authored texts, and by proactively promoting positive content about Serbia and Serbs," Guyon said.

He noted that the assessments indicate that whatever they do will have positive and beneficial results for Serbia.

"Additionally, the results will be easily measurable. We will track how many articles have been published, how many corrections have been issued, how many letters we have sent to editors and publication directors in those countries, and how many meetings we have had with them," Guyon emphasized.