Serbian Forum Head: Peć Pharmacy Institution Has Not Operated Since 1999

Momčilo Trajković, president of the Serbian National Forum in Gračanica, has asserted that the Pharmacy Institution in Peć has been defunct since 1999, the year Serbs and Montenegrins left the city. His statement challenges reports that Serbian Minister Snežana Paunović led the institution and received a salary from it between 2014 and 2025, even after its official dissolution in 2021.

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It doesn't exist since 2021? Well, it hasn't been working since 1999, since Serbs and Montenegrins left Peć. It never worked. They just simulated that it was working. It functioned in someone's head.

"It doesn't exist since 2021? Well, it hasn't been working since 1999, since Serbs and Montenegrins left Peć. It never worked. They just simulated that it was working. It functioned in someone's head," Trajković told the newspaper Danas. He questioned Paunović's activities and the institution's operational status and locations, given her reported presence in Belgrade during that period.

According to Trajković, numerous Serbian institutions in Kosovo and Metohija are merely simulated to appear functional. Rada Trajković, president of the European Movement of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija, while uncertain about the salary specifics, confirmed the absence of Serbs in Peć and expressed doubt about the existence of any real institutions there, referring to them as "fictitious."

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I don't know if it's true that Paunović received that salary or not, but I know very well that there haven't been Serbs in Peć for a long time and I don't believe there are any institutions there, except fictitious ones.

She suggested that such "fictitious" cases are common in Kosovo, where Serbian authorities might have maintained the semblance of institutions believing in a future return. However, she argued, this practice primarily serves to financially "motivate" party leadership and loyal individuals, rather than preserve state interests.

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I thought that in this way (Serbian) authorities were protecting the state, so they have some institutions because they will return, but in fact, they only financially 'motivated' the party leadership and loyal people in this way.