SERBIAN PRESIDENT CONDEMNS ATTACK AGAINST KOSOVO SERB TEACHER
BBC Monitoring International Reports - August 23, 2006 Wednesday

Text of report by Serbian independent news agency FoNet

Belgrade, 23 August: Serbian President Boris Tadic has sharply condemned the attack against a Serb teacher in central Decani who participated in an OSCE multiethnic camp together with a group of Serb children, the Serbian presidential press service said.

"On countless occasions, President Tadic has been pointing to the fact that Kosovo Albanian leaders and representatives of interim [Kosovo] institutions obviously cannot keep the situation under control and he has been calling on them to influence extremists within their ranks and stop incidents, beating of Kosovo Serbs and threats against them," the statement said.

Security situation in Kosovo is very bad, Tadic warned, especially noting the hitherto unseen pressure on UN institutions in Pristina.

"The blockade of the exit outside the Kosovo Assembly [by Self-Determination Movement activists], UN secretary-general's special envoy Martti Ahtisaari is prevented from doing his job," the statement said.

Source: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1448 gmt 23 Aug 06

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