Arnaud Gouillon

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region Arnaud Gouillon met with Bundestag member Zaklin Nastic in Belgrade on Thursday to discuss the situation in Kosovo-Metohija and present the latest developments in Serbia's southern province and Belgrade's views on the issue.

BELGRADE - The head of the Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region Arnaud Gouillon on Wednesday welcomed a delegation of French businesspeople led by Serbia's Honorary Consul to France Philippe Mangeard, and invited them to consider investing in Serbia.

Twitter is reported to have suspended the accounts of at least 16 political figures in Serbia, all of them either members of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party or holders of senior state posts.

French humanitarian Arnaud Gouillon, stated that he was used to being attacked from Pristina, but that he was hurt by the writings of the media from Belgrade and Novi Sad that he was "a propagandist and extremist".

The Serbian government has appointed a French national, Arnaud Gouillon, head of the organisation Solidarité Kosovo - known for his far-right views and humanitarian activities among Kosovo's Serbian minority - to head its Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region.

"The story follows the life of young Dimitri returning as refugee to Kosovo shortly before the anti-Serb riots in 2004. This romanticized drama is made up of real events and will show French audiences the recent history of the Balkans from another, less biased angle", Arnaud Gouillon wrote.

Gouillon posted on Twitter: "What an outburst of hatred and insults in the Western press over Nobel for Handke. Being a friend of Serbia and genuinely loving the weak and oppressed living in the enclaves in Kosovo and Metohija is obviously inexcusable. Even after 20 years".
The humanitarian then added: "Now at least I know how I will be treated, whatever I do in the future."

This is what French-Serbian humanitarian Arno Gujon (Arnaud Gouillon) told Serbia's public broadcaster RTS.

He stressed that it was most important to explain to the French that what they have been listening to for years about Serbia and the situation in Kosovo - has been false, and added that his humanitarian organization has been trying to change that for the past 14 years.

A Serbian journalist Marija Antic has said she received death and rape threats after grilling a far-right French activist Arnaud Gouillon about his views and activism.

"The job of a journalist is to try to come to the truth. It's for the audience to accept this truth or not," Antic told BIRN.

Arnaud Gouillon, who has been helping Serbs in Kosovo for years, says he is currently working on sending 42 children from Serb enclaves on vacation.