Drecun: Pressures, threats by War Crime Prosecutor's Office

BELGRADE - Milovan Drecun, official of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and president of the Serbian parliament's Committee for Kosovo-Metohija, stated on Tuesday that he has been subjected to a brutal campaign of pressures and threats by the War Crime Prosecutor's Office ever since he publically posed a question whether War Crime Deputy Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric was appointed in a legal way.

At the parliament's session reserved for questions of MPs, Drecun called on Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic and the Serbian parliament to determine whether Vekaric was legally appointed to the office, and asked what they will do to protect him during his term of office.

"I cannot serve in the office in an atmosphere of threats, slanders and lies," Drecun said. The Prosecutor's Office threatens me that it will institute a pre-trial procedure, it is trying to defame me linking me to the threats that arrive in the Prosecutor's Office, he said.

Commenting on the great pressure that he is exposed to, Drecun also pointed to the letter that the Prosecutor's Office has sent to certain embassies in Belgrade accusing him that he might harm the operation of the Prosecutor's Office.

"The Prosecutor's Office also denies the right of the president of the Committee for Kosovo-Metohija to request the presence of state bodies at the session, including the Prosecutor's Office, and ask for answers which are in their competence. I was appointed to the office by citizens, and not by ambassadors," Drecun underlined, adding that this is a scandal which constitutes an attack on the parliament and the role it has as defined by the Constitution.

Drecun also said that the prosecutor's office have told a legal advisor at the US Embassy that they...