Petkovic meets with German foreign ministry official

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the head of the Western Balkans Division of the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Niels Von Redecker in Belgrade on Thursday.

Petkovic informed the German official of the political situation in Kosovo-Metohija and problems faced by the Serbs due to political and all other forms of disenfranchisement and constant attempts to subjugate them to Pristina's will by violent and non-democratic means, the Office for Kosovo-Metohija said in a statement.

He noted that Albin Kurti's terror put the survival of Serbs into question, especially in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

He said this was also indicated by recent events during which ethnic Albanian municipal representatives in Kosovska Mitrovica, Leposavic, Zubin Potok and Zvecan had refused to receive a civic...