Serbian President urges Kosovo Serbs to not provoke conflicts

President says militants among Kosovo Serbs want to provoke conflict and retard Serbia’s EU accession.

Serbia’s President on Thursday warned that Serb extremists in Kosovo could “destroy everything that Serbia has done in previous years”.

Serbs in northern Kosovo would be well advised “to control the extremists who would like to continue warfare and stop Serbia’s EU integration process,” he said.

On December 9, Brussels delayed a decision on whether to to grant Serbia candidate status until spring 2012.