Vucic: Kosovo Serbs Only Want What Civilized People in Europe Have

Crisis in North Kosovo (BETAPHOTO/SASA DJORDJEVIC/DS)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic declared support on Dec. 22 of the Serbs' protest at the barricades in the town of Rudare because, in his words, they only want "what belongs to all civilized people in Europe."

In an Instagram post, Vucic stated that the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija were being "withheld freedom, the right to move, to go to schools or hospitals, to preserve their lives and their children's' future."

"The Serbs do not ask for much. They only ask for what everyone else has the right to, that has been withheld from them. They ask for the release of those who were arrested without any reason whatsoever. They ask for the standing down of the police with assault weapons, which came to occupy the north of Kosovo and Metohija with no right, for the abolishing of the arrest lists, which the Pristina regime has formed because the Serbs stood up to their terror," stated the Serbian president.

He recollected that the forming of the Community of Serb Municipalities, as the primary condition of the Brussels agreement, was the precondition for the Serbs to return to the Kosovo institutions, which, as he said, is different from the removal of the barricades.