Assistant Minister for Kosovo-Metohija in charge of international cooperation Kruna Petkovic said today concerning the sale of property of Telekom Srbija in Kosovo-Metohija that Serbia is planning to file charges before international institutions, but that it will not make one-sided and hasty moves at the moment.

Petkovic told today’s issue of Blic daily that appropriate measures will be taken to protect the interests of Serbia in the territory of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija.

Concerning the sale of property of Telekom Srbija in Kosovo-Metohija, she confirmed that the prospective participants in the tender have been informed who the real owner is, as well as international institutions from the field of telecommunications, commissions of certain exchanges and other bodies.

The warnings were sent from Telekom Srbija and from the Serbian government, Petkovic clarified.

The Assistant Minister underlined that the issue of the sale of property of Telekom Srbija and of all other companies owned by the Serbian state is actually the issue of ownership rights as part of the corpus of universal rights, which are inviolable in developed democratic societies.

This is not only state property, but also the property of companies, the private property of citizens and the property of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Petkovic emphasised.

She highlighted that the sale of Telekom Srbija is legally unsustainable, as well as the entire privatisation process in Kosovo-Metohija because the change of ownership status was launched without having determined the exact ownership structure of the property that was to be privatised because legal, financial, human and economic aspects had not been taken into account before starting the entire process.

Petkovic stressed that in the case of the sale of Telekom Srbija in Kosovo-Metohija it should be borne in mind that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) declined the request of UNMIK to give Kosovo-Metohija an international dialling code in 2005. ITU rejected this demand in writing, giving a series of legal arguments.