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Disgruntled Kosovo Serbs protest against deal in Belgrade

10.05.2013 u 20:15

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Disgruntled Kosovo Serbs protest against deal in Belgrade Several thousand people rallied in Belgrade on Friday to protest against an EU-brokered agreement recently reached by Serbia and Kosovo on the status of Serbs in Kosovo, and according to local media this rally was marked by speakers' slurs against Serbia's top officials whom they accused for high treason

Serb Orthodox priest Atanasije Jeftic was one of the most vociferous critics of the agreement and he branded the entire Serbian leadership as traitors.

Media experts later interpreted some of those speeches as calls for the removal of the current government.

Representatives of Serbs from the north of Kosovo find the Brussels agreement totally unacceptable and in the meantime they failed to agree with Serbian officials on how to implement the accords.

Prime Minister Ivica Dacic has said that the authorities would not resort to violence to enforce what was agreed.

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has announced his visit to Kosovo Serbs for 12 May in a bid to hammer out an agreement with their representatives.

On Thursday, technical negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, which were held in Brussels on the application of the 19 April agreement, were cut off with both sides accusing each other of the responsibility of the suspension of the talks.