Minister: There'll be no ethnic regions

The government will not allow formation of ethnic regions, including in the south, Public Administration and Local Self-Government Minister Milan Marković says.

Izvor: FoNet

Friday, 07.08.2009.

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The government will not allow formation of ethnic regions, including in the south, Public Administration and Local Self-Government Minister Milan Markovic says. "That request from [ethnic] Albanians in the south of Serbia is not realistic, and at this point there are no constitutional preconditions to create territorial regions and institutions," Markovic told Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti. Minister: There'll be no ethnic regions The minister, who also heads the Coordinating Body for the South of Serbia, said the Albanian declaration, revealed last week, was "nothing new", and added that Albanian politicians came up with the demands "partly under pressure from radical elements". Markovic told the newspaper that the roots for the latest developments should also be sought in the internal political struggle between leading Albanian parties, but also the fact that there are unsolved problems that additionally complicate the situation in the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja. Asked what response the government is preparing, Markovic said it was important that the response is not what the initiators of the idea would want – "and that is a scenario that would be characteristic of the past times". "The government is aware of the problems in the south, but we are determined to solve them. Nothing will provoke us, no act of terrorism or any declaration, to change that policy." Markovic also commented on ethnic Albanians' complaints about the presence of the Serbian police (MUP) elite Gendarmerie (Zandarmerija), to say that its officers are present "only in numbers necessary to secure personal safety and property of citizens". Milan Markovic (FoNet)

Minister: There'll be no ethnic regions

The minister, who also heads the Coordinating Body for the South of Serbia, said the Albanian declaration, revealed last week, was "nothing new", and added that Albanian politicians came up with the demands "partly under pressure from radical elements".

Marković told the newspaper that the roots for the latest developments should also be sought in the internal political struggle between leading Albanian parties, but also the fact that there are unsolved problems that additionally complicate the situation in the municipalities of Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa.

Asked what response the government is preparing, Marković said it was important that the response is not what the initiators of the idea would want – "and that is a scenario that would be characteristic of the past times".

"The government is aware of the problems in the south, but we are determined to solve them. Nothing will provoke us, no act of terrorism or any declaration, to change that policy."

Marković also commented on ethnic Albanians' complaints about the presence of the Serbian police (MUP) elite Gendarmerie (Žandarmerija), to say that its officers are present "only in numbers necessary to secure personal safety and property of citizens".

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