Although some ecological activists said they would not call for a new protest against the two controversial laws after Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic and the Government promised to withdraw the Law on Expropriation and amend the Law on Referendum in line with the demands from protests across the country during the last two weekends, the Ecological Uprising movement announced on Friday it would go on with demonstrations.

Djordje Miketic of the movement told N1 that the moves fulfill the two main requests the activists insisted on, but that it that would not stop Rio Tinto to do its business in Serbia.

He added that “we already have agreed to a protest at some 50 locations. People are fed up with fear. Some protest against Rio Tinto, some against (Chinese tire factory) Linglong in (the northern town of) Zrenjain, some against (the Chinese smelting complex) Zijin in *the eastern town of) Bor. Our focus is on Rio Tinto. The changes to the laws won’t make it leave.”

Miketic said that Rio Tinto got location permits seven days ago and that there was a spatial plan in the western Loznica municipality that included Rio Tinto.

He added that the Rio Tinto’s area of interest “looks like a war zone, or like a storm hit it. Black jeeps drive around, pressuring people. That will continue. It may ease a bit ahead of the elections (on April 3), but what after them?”

The Ecological Uprising said earlier on Wednesday it would continue with demonstrations if Loznica municipal authorities did not erase the Jadar project from its spatial plan.