Media: Vucic cancels trips abroad, Govt session, meeting with Lajcak scheduled

ALEKSANDAR VUČIĆ
Tanjug/Strahinja Aćimović

A Serbian Government session as which Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will inform Government members about the situation in Kosovo has been scheduled for Saturday, the Belgrade media reported. The President’s Office said Vucic is due to meet with European Union (EU) envoy Miroslav Lajcak Friday afternoon while, citing sources from the Serbian Presidency, the Tanjug news agency reported that Vucic has cancelled all trips abroad due to the situation in Kosovo.

The Serbian President will meet with EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak and other Western Balkan regional issues at 6 pm Friday, said the President’s press office.

The Belgrade daily Novosti reported that Vucic is to meet on Saturday with the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Synod in order to inform the Patriarch and archbishops about the latest developments in Kosovo.

Several portals reported that the Serbian Government meeting was called for Saturday following the latest tensions in north Kosovo and Pristina’s suspension of commander of the Kosovo Police Region North Nenad Djuric, as well as following Vucic’s talks with Kosovo Serbs on Thursday that lasted all night.

The leader of the Belgrade-backed Serb List, Goran Rakic, has called an urgent meeting of all representatives of Kosovo institutions in north Kosovo at which he will propose that all Serbs withdraw from the Kosovo institutions in the north.

The Kosovo Police General Director suspended Kosovo Police Region North commander Nenad Djuric, at the initiative of the Kosovo Police Inspectorate, for failing to exercise legal authority and implement official decisions.

Djuric said that the police officers in north Kosovo will not be implementing the Pristina Government decision on issuing warnings to Serbs who have not re-registered their vehicles and switched to Kosovo-issued license plates because that decision “is political and aimed against the Serb community.”