Very high tension in the Balkans.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, in his capacity as supreme head of the Armed Forces, has ordered the state of maximum alert for the Army and police forces of the Balkan country.
A decision, explain the Belgrade media, taken to defend the Serb population in the face of "growing provocations and threats to security and physical safety by the authorities of neighboring Kosovo, especially in the north of the state controlled by Pristina.
Here the Serbs protest, accusing the Kosovar government of implementing vexatious and discriminatory policies against them.
Serbia, said First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, is ready to intervene in the event of an attack on the Kosovo Serbs. Even if, he added, Belgrade is always committed to solving all problems through dialogue and maintaining peace in the region.
"We are for peace and dialogue, but if it comes to physical attacks and the killing of Serbs, and if the KFOR does not intervene, Serbia will be forced to do so," said Dacic quoted by the media.
At the time, the foreign minister recalled the three red lines that Belgrade deems impassable. First: the creation of the Community of Serbian Municipalities in Kosovo. Second: the firm no to the independence of Kosovo and its eventual admission to the UN and other important international organizations. Third: the defense of the security and physical safety of the Kosovo Serbs.
(Unioneonline/lf)
