Northern Kosovo Serbs support Belgrade negotiating team

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA Leposavic Mayor Dragisa Vasic says top state officials showed decisiveness, unity and national and state responsibility during the last round of the talks. A joint session of councilors of four northern Kosovo municipalities is underway in Leposavic around 12:00 CET and the councilors are discussing the eighth round of the talks in Brussels. Northern Kosovo Serbs support Belgrade negotiating team 100 out of 119 councilors are attending the session. At the start of the session, Vasic called on Kosovska Mitrovica, Leposavic, Zvecan and Zubin Potok councilors to support Belgrade’s negotiating team for their conduct at Tuesday’s meeting. He added that the everybody in the north had carefully followed the events in Brussels and that “every day in the past 14 years has been a D Day for the citizens of this part of the province”. Vasic therefore called on all citizens to be alert and on the international community to protect the citizens in northern Kosovo. The councilors will familiarize themselves with results of the Brussels dialogue and they are expected to reach a conclusion. The northern Kosovo Serb representatives announced earlier that if solutions reached in the negotiations were unfavorable, they would form an assembly of northern Kosovo that would implement Serbia’s Constitution. Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo Deputy Director Krstimir Pantic said at the time that the four northern Kosovo municipalities would ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the same question as in the case of Kosovo Albanians’ unilaterally declared independence – whether an informal group of people has the right to declare its assembly and an autonomy in a part of the territory. (Tanjug) Tanjug

Northern Kosovo Serbs support Belgrade negotiating team

100 out of 119 councilors are attending the session.

At the start of the session, Vasić called on Kosovska Mitrovica, Leposavić, Zvečan and Zubin Potok councilors to support Belgrade’s negotiating team for their conduct at Tuesday’s meeting.

He added that the everybody in the north had carefully followed the events in Brussels and that “every day in the past 14 years has been a D Day for the citizens of this part of the province”.

Vasić therefore called on all citizens to be alert and on the international community to protect the citizens in northern Kosovo.

The councilors will familiarize themselves with results of the Brussels dialogue and they are expected to reach a conclusion.

The northern Kosovo Serb representatives announced earlier that if solutions reached in the negotiations were unfavorable, they would form an assembly of northern Kosovo that would implement Serbia’s Constitution.

Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo Deputy Director Krstimir Pantić said at the time that the four northern Kosovo municipalities would ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the same question as in the case of Kosovo Albanians’ unilaterally declared independence – whether an informal group of people has the right to declare its assembly and an autonomy in a part of the territory.