Opposition Movement Wants State Security Agency to Track Down Initiative to Ban Lithium Mining

Savo Manojlovic (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC/DS

Kreni-Promeni (Go-Change) delivered on April 12 a request to the Security and Information Agency (the local acronym BIA) to find out where an initiative to ban lithium and boron mining in Serbia was.

The movement’s campaign manager, Savo Manojlovic, said to reporters outside the BIA building in Belgrade that he possessed material evidence that the initiative supported by 30,000 signatures had left the Parliament of Serbia and reached the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government, but that the document was now impossible to track down.

Manojlovic added that they had given the BIA agency 15 days to respond to their request, promising that otherwise Kreni-Promeni would prepare new campaigns to defend the constitutional order, including “taking to the streets.”