Community "will have executive powers" - Kosovo office chief

Community "will have executive powers" - Kosovo office chief

The statements reiterated by Albanian politicians according to which the ZSO would never be able to be anything other than an NGO failed in the face of the text harmonised by our and the provincial prime ministers, Djuric told a news conference.

He underscored that the ZSO as the cornerstone of the survival of Serbs in KiM have obtained their political and formal foundation in the agreement harmonized in Brussels on Tuesday.

ZSO employees will have a status of public servants and this is included in the principles of the agreement, implying that the community is officially a public institution.

This asserts the powers, and the ZSO will have political bodies typical of autonomous units, Djuric said.

He underscored that the ZSO has something that no other institution had in the past 15 years, direct institutional connections with Serbia.

The energy system of north Kosovo-Metohija is staying in our hands, Djuric said during the same news conference.

Serbia and Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS) will continue to provide electricity to citizens of north Kosovo through its daughter companies, Djuric said.

Djuric said that he had the greatest concerns about the agreement on energy due to its economic and political consequences, but pointed out that the energy system in north Kosovo-Metohija is staying in the hands of Serbia.

Djuric said that everything should be done to make the EPS daughter companies economically sustainable and step up paying of electricity bills in north Kosovo.

"Supply and power switch are in our hands and this is a great victory for Serbia," said Djuric.