"Kosovo candidates registering stolen Serb property"

The Kosovo Ministry has complained to UNMIK Chief Joachim Ruecker ahead of the Kosovo elections. The ministry asserts that Kosovo election ballot papers include Albanians who have stolen property owned by displaced Serbs. "Kosovo candidates registering stolen Serb property" Ministry State Secretary Dusan Prorokovic said today that, ”Unfortunately, we have not received any reply from UNMIK yet. According to international standards and under the earlier adopted decrees by UNMIK itself, people who steal property may not stand for election, let alone be appointed ministers, deputies or mayors," Prorokovic told Tanjug. He added that Ruecker had been informed that certain candidates for mayors and deputies within local assemblies had registered the stolen property as their own. ”That is forgery and theft, which are criminal acts,“ stressed Prorokovic. "While the high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina has been punishing politicians for verbal infringements, the UNMIK chief either hasn’t the courage to or is simply not interested in imposing his authority in much more serious offenses," said the state secretary. "There are two options now - either to ban all Albanian politicians who have stolen Serb-owned property in Kosovo from running in the November 17 elections, or to declare the election illegitimate," he concluded.

"Kosovo candidates registering stolen Serb property"

Ministry State Secretary Dušan Proroković said today that, ”Unfortunately, we have not received any reply from UNMIK yet. According to international standards and under the earlier adopted decrees by UNMIK itself, people who steal property may not stand for election, let alone be appointed ministers, deputies or mayors," Proroković told Tanjug.

He added that Ruecker had been informed that certain candidates for mayors and deputies within local assemblies had registered the stolen property as their own.

”That is forgery and theft, which are criminal acts,“ stressed Proroković.

"While the high representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina has been punishing politicians for verbal infringements, the UNMIK chief either hasn’t the courage to or is simply not interested in imposing his authority in much more serious offenses," said the state secretary.

"There are two options now - either to ban all Albanian politicians who have stolen Serb-owned property in Kosovo from running in the November 17 elections, or to declare the election illegitimate," he concluded.