Petkovic writes to Lajcak over Pristina's police raid on Postal Savings Bank offices

BELGRADE - In a letter to Brussels's special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak, the director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic informed the EU official of Pristina's recent police raid on the offices of Serbia's Postal Savings Bank in four municipalities in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

The so-called "Kosovo Police" were deliberately equipped with long weapons and full combat gear to intimidate civilians and employees before they closed the bank's five offices, Petkovic noted in the letter, seen by Tanjug.

He called on Lajcak to inform the EU member states in an authentic manner of Pristina's destabilising actions and the trampling of dialogue, and requested concrete steps to prevent any unilateral and violent acts by Pristina in the future.

He added that the raid was a continuation of ethnically...