Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. File photoBELGRADE, Jul 31With the coming to power in the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo «Prime Minister» Albin Kurti in March 2021, 206 incidents were committed against local Serbs, their property and objects of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC), President Aleksandar Vucic said. Earlier, he said that, according to his information , the police of the self-proclaimed Kosovo on the night of August 1 will begin an operation in the north of the region and block the entry of citizens with personal documents issued by the Serbian authorities, an action will also begin to re-register cars for the numbers of the «Republic of Kosovo.» The number of incidents with the coming to power of Albin Kurti (in March 2021 — ed.), a big favorite of the «fifth» (USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy) was 206, 50% more than the previous year, although even then they could not boast (small — ed.) incidents. Of these, 35 were attacks on the objects of the SOC and Serbian cemeteries,» the President of Serbia stressed and noted that each case was documented. He indicated that on Sunday night in the area of 3 ubin-Potok in northern Kosovo, the self-proclaimed republic's police detained two young Serbs in T-shirts with the inscription «No Surrender!» and a map of Kosovo and Metohija with a Serbian flag and demanded that these T-shirts be removed and torn apart. Other incidents included physical attacks and threats against Kosovo Serbs, arrests for national symbols and songs, theft, desecration and vandalism, and threatening graffiti on playgrounds and temples , including the inscription «Jesus hates Serbs» on the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Pristina, repeatedly desecrated and littered. Serbian Foreign Minister Nikola Selakovic said the day before that the authorities of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo are planning new steps from August 1 to cancel documents and license plates issued by the leadership of Serbia to arrange «hell» for Kosovo Serbs. The government of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo announced the day before that documents issued by the Serbian authorities cease to be valid in the territory under its control from Monday, their owners will be issued a temporary entry certificate. At the same time, the mandatory re-registration of cars with Serbian license plates to RKS «Republic of Kosovo» license plates will begin.Kosovo authorities are ready to impose a ban on entry with Serbian documentsFor their part, the Serbian authorities do not recognize RKS numbers on their territory. According to a bilateral agreement reached in the fall of 2021, at the entrance from the Kosovo checkpoints, the indicated symbols are sealed with stickers with the Serbian coat of arms and the letters «KM». September «for the sake of the rule of law.» According to Kurti, in order to facilitate the procedure, the cars will not be subjected to an additional customs procedure. He called this a big concession, given that the average customs fee for a car is about 5,000 euros, and during registration, technical inspection will not be required, and municipalities can refuse a 10 euro tax. On September 20, 2021, the authorities of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo banned entry with Serbian license plates and deployed a special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ROSU on armored vehicles and snipers to the north of the region inhabited by Serbs. In response, local Serbs blocked the road with construction equipment towards the two checkpoints «Yarine» and «Brnjak» and held the blockade, despite the attempts of the Kosovo police to disperse them using tear gas and special equipment. From the side of central Serbia, military personnel in armored vehicles were on duty on the highway, Mi-35 helicopters and MiG-29 fighters flew around the area. After that, in negotiations with the mediation of Western countries, a temporary solution was reached with the sealing of the symbols on the numbers when entering and leaving Kosovo and Metohija in central Serbia. >Vučić advised Kosovo Albanian authorities not to persecute Serbs
