Djuric calls for urgent action to prevent tragedy in Kosovo-Metohija

WASHINGTON - Serbian Ambassador to Washington Marko Djuric has called for urgent action to prevent tragedy in Kosovo-Metohija in the wake of the most recent decisions by the Pristina government, which he noted were aimed at a forceful expulsion of Serbs from the province.

"Thousands of Serbs across the North of Kosovo* continue peaceful protests against the oppression of Kurti's regime and the violent and undemocratic ethnically motivated takeover of Serb majority municipalities. Yesterday's kidnapping of Milun Milenkovic in K. Mitrovica by Kurti thugs - yet another escalatory and destabilising move - brought even more peaceful protesters onto the streets today," Djuric wrote in a post on his official Twitter account on Wednesday evening.

"Today in the early afternoon, local time, three uniformed individuals, wearing Kosovo* Police uniforms, armed with AK-47 rifles,...