The center of organized crime in Kosovo-Metohija is Pristina, rather than the north of the province, State Secretary at the Serbian Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija Oliver Ivanovic has said.

Ivanovic said he was not satisfied with the situation in the north of the province, pointing out that that part of Kosovo indeed had organized crime links with Pristina, but, if we traced them back, we could see it was Pristina that needed to "clean up its yard."

The authorities in Pristina are talking about law enforcement while trying to strengthen the police or KFOR presence in the Kosovo north, but a better law enforcement in the north should be a result of an initiative by citizens, he said.

Every time a problem is being presented and approached as the single problem in Kosovo, Serbs are getting homogenized because they see such actions as attacks on the north, Ivanovic said in a talk-show of TV Most, a broadcaster based in Zvecan, a northern Kosovo town. He said that the Serb side was not protecting criminals.