Lucic: Response to Telekom Srbija appeal due in 15 days

LEPOSAVIC - Telekom Srbija CEO Vladimir Lucic said the company had been informed by the so-called Kosovo's business registration agency on Friday that its appeal following the agency's decision to ban the operations of MTS doo - a Telekom Srbija daughter company in Kosovo-Metohija - was due in 15 days, and expressed the confidence the appeal would be accepted.

"A two-week battle for the survival of MTS is ahead of us. I am fully confident we will survive as a company because this was an attempt to shut down our company here in an absurd, unlawful way," Lucic said in Leposavic, Kosovo-Metohija, after Telekom Srbija donated an interactive whiteboard to a local primary school.

He noted a decision to erase MTS doo from the business register was not only a violation of the Brussels Agreement but also an absurd breach of the Pristina administration's own laws.

"I...