Council for National Security

The Ministry of Internal Affairs, in cooperation with the High Prosecutor's Office, launched an operation to arrest all those who caused riots in front of the Belgrade City Assembly this evening.
They violently tried to break into the City Assembly.

In a telephone conversation, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin congratulated his Serbia's counterpart Aleksandar Vucic on his convincing victory in the presidential elections and a very significant result of his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in the parliamentary vote, Vucic's media office said in a press release.

She spoke after a meeting of the Council for National Security.

Speaking after a meeting of the Council for National Security held on Saturday, Vucic said that the action of the Ministry of the Interior and the Prosecutor's Office showed the intention of the state not only to confront the most dangerous types of crime in Serbia, but also to win over crime and the most severe forms of corruption.

Ramush Haradinaj said on Thursday that this would be done" when Belgrade ceases the aggression of Serbia," Pristina-based daily Gazeta Express is reporting, cited by Tanjug.

Haradinaj also said that such a decision "was not unexpected, and that he repeatedly warned the previously imposed tax could only be increased."

The president spoke late on Wednesday, and said the decision was made at a session of the Council for National Security.

Vucic said Belgrade "wants to remain a reliable partner to everyone in the world, Europe and the region," the Serbian government announced on its website.

The Council for National Security met, while before that, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic separately spoke with the ambassadors of Russia and China posted in Belgrade, and then with those from the EU and the US, and their "Quint" allies.

Tanjug agency has reported this. The term "Quint" is used to represents the US, the UK, Germany, Italy, and France.

Tanjug was also told by Vucic's cabinet that a meeting of the Council for National Security has been scheduled to take place later on.

The cause for all this are "Pristina's latest measures."

Brnabic revealed that the meeting was for the most part dedicated to the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, and that she "never saw Vucic so disappointed by the reactions of our partners."

"The situation has been difficult during the past weeks, and I think everything that has happened is a precedent of sorts," she said.

The formation of the ZSO is an obligation undertaken by the authorities in Pristina under the 2013 Brussels agreement, but it has not yet been fulfilled.

The announcement today was made by Goran Rakic, after representatives of the Serb List held a meeting in Belgrade with President Aleksandar Vucic, and Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric.