Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić met with the Chinese ambassador in Belgrade, Li Ming, to whom he handed over “a letter regarding the situation in Kosovo”.
This was stated in a post published on the Serbian President’s social media account on Instagram.
The letter is addressed to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and besides informing about the situation in Kosovo, it was sent “on the occasion of the rapid deepening of our bilateral relations”, Vučić wrote on Instagram.
“I thanked Ambassador Li Ming for the strong and unequivocal reaction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China regarding the recent unfounded moves by Pristina, which are clearly directed against the Serbian people in ‘Kosovo and Metohija’,” he said.
China, along with Russia – two allied states of Serbia – are permanent members of the UN Security Council. Both of these states do not recognize the independence of Kosovo, declared in 2008.
Earlier, Vučić had announced that he would request an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council on Kosovo. His announcement comes after authorities in Kosovo decided to prohibit the use of the Serbian dinar for payments.
On February 1, the regulation for cash operations of the Central Bank of Kosovo came into force in Kosovo. This regulation stipulates that payments can only be made in euros.
In the settlements where Serbs live in Kosovo, the Serbian dinar has been in circulation since the post-war period. The Serbian state pays salaries, pensions, social assistance, and other benefits to Serbs in Kosovo – through a parallel system.
