A senior Kosovo Serb political official on Thursday announced peaceful protests over the Kosovo government’s decision to impose 100 percent tariffs on goods from Serbia.

“The Serbs in Kosovo will not remain silent observers,” Serb List leader Goran Rakic said after a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade.  

He said the Kosovo Serbs would call the international community to pressure Pristina into revoking what he said was “a catastrophic and lethal decision for the Serb people in Kosovo”.  

“We will call for the decision to be revoked and if that does not happen we will organize protests in a different form as of Tuesday. We will not allow our children to be left without basic foodstuffs tomorrow,” Rakic said, adding that a decision on further steps would be taken on Tuesday.