A mass march against the Western plan for Kosovo took place in the capital of Serbia

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A mass march against the Western plan for Kosovo took place in the capital of Serbia

A mass march against the Western plan for Kosovo took place in the capital of Serbia – RIA Novosti, 03/17/2023

A mass march against the Western plan for Kosovo took place in the capital of Serbia

Right-wing patriotic parliamentary parties and non-parliamentary movements organized a mass demonstration in the capital of Serbia against the… RIA Novosti, 03/17/2023

2023-03-17T23:53

2023-03-17T23:53

2023-03-17T23:53

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BELGRADE, March 17 – RIA Novosti. Patriotic right-wing parliamentary parties and non-parliamentary movements staged a mass protest in the Serbian capital against the Euro-American settlement proposal in Kosovo, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. In Serbia, March 17 is the day of remembrance for the victims of the massacres of the Serbian population of Kosovo and Metohija in March 2004. On Saturday March 18, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet with the self-proclaimed Prime Minister of Kosovo Albin Kurti in the city of Ohrid in North Macedonia with the participation of European diplomat Josef Borrell and special representative for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina Miroslav Lajcak. The topic of discussion should be the implementation plan for the US-European settlement proposal in Kosovo. In Belgrade, right-wing patriotic opposition parties staged a mass demonstration on Friday evening. The organizers were the movements “Gates”, “Zavetniki”, the New Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the Movement for the Renewal of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS). The head of the “gate” Bosko Obradovic said on the eve that the participants in the action demand the holding of early legislative and presidential elections. Protesters gathered around 6 p.m. (8 p.m. Moscow time) at the largest St. Sava temple in Belgrade. Many came with Serbian flags, icons, Orthodox patriotic symbols. At the head of the procession, they carried a banner “No Surrender”. The column marched along the central streets with patriotic songs to the monument to Nicholas II Romanov in front of the presidential administration building, where several thousand people gathered. From the stage, among others, the leader of the Zavetniki movement, Milica Dzhurdzhevich-Stamenkovski, who is in late pregnancy, addressed the audience. “We will not abandon the shrines, we will not abandon Kosovo and Metohija!” she shouted the motto of the 2020 Orthodox processions in Montenegro, which led to the first defeat of the Democratic Party of Socialists in the country. President Milo Djukanovic in 30 years. . In 1999, an armed confrontation between the Albanian separatists of the Kosovo Liberation Army and the army and police of Serbia led to the bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO forces. In March 2004, the Kosovo Albanians organized pogroms, which led to the mass exodus of Serbs from the region and the destruction of many monuments of their history and culture. Following three days of unrest in the region, 30 people were killed, 950 civilians and members of international security forces were injured and approximately 1,000 Serb homes were destroyed. The Serbian Orthodox Church claims 35 burnt and destroyed churches and monasteries. Tens of thousands of Serbs then left Kosovo and Metohija, only a few returned. Around 100,000 Serbs who remained in Kosovo and Metohija live in the north of the region and in several enclaves in the center and south. On February 17, 2008, Kosovo Albanian structures in Pristina unilaterally declared independence from Serbia. The self-declared republic is not recognized by Serbia, Russia, China, Iran, Spain, Greece and a number of other states. In 2011, under pressure from the European Union, the Serbian authorities began negotiations with the Kosovo Albanian administration in Pristina.

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A mass march against the Western plan for Kosovo took place in the capital of Serbia