State could now move to privatize mining complex in Kosovo

Unless the Kosovo institutions abandon their <a href="http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2015&mm=01&dd=19&nav_id=92898" class="text-link" target= "_blank">intention to take over Trepca</a>, Serbia will begin the privatization of the company, it has been announced.

Izvor: Tanjug

Monday, 19.01.2015.

12:03

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The Trepca mining complex in northern Kosovo (Tanjug)

State could now move to privatize mining complex in Kosovo

He also told the state broadcaster RTS that there was "an agreement to negotiate about this on a different level, as the talks continue."

"This is a crude violation of all procedures and regulations," Sertic said ahead of a session of the Kosovo assembly on Monday that is supposed to consider, in urgent procedure, a draft sent by the government in Pristina that would allow it to take over the mining complex.

Sertic warned that such behavior "can create unforeseeable consequences for the relations between the two communities, and above all to the economic and everyday life of the people in northern Kosovo."

The minister noted that four letters of interest arrived previously in the Trepca privatization process and that interest was shown by companies from the U.S., Canada, Switzerland and Hungary, "countries where property relations are exceptionally respected." There are also two domestic companies that are interested in buying Trepca, he revealed.

Noting that there was no dilemma as to who legally owns the mines, Sertic explained that the Serbian state-run Fund for Development owns 56 percent of Trepca, and that 22 percent is held by various Serbian companies such as Gosa, Dunav Osiguranje, Termoelektro, and Jugobanka and Beogradska banks that are in bankruptcy procedures.

"In those two packages alone we have a 75-76 percent ownership stake," he said, adding these were "provable things that can be found in papers."

Besides this, the minister said, the state has EUR 268 million in reported claims, that have been sent to the provincial institutions, along with lists and documents.

The total figure when it comes to claims is estimated to reach EUR 480 million, "so this type of unilateral talk about Trepca's privatization, deals about realizing business activities without our side, is not possible," the minister stressed.

Sertic explained that Pristina made the move to take over the mining complex "without any consultations with our representatives on either the political or the technical level," and added he "hoped for reason as the end solution" to the controversy.

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