GIS success "historic victory for Serbia"
Marko Đurić, an adviser to the president, says that the success of the Srpska (GIS) electoral list in the Kosovo elections was "a historic victory for Serbia."
Monday, 02.12.2013.
15:12
BELGRADE Marko Djuric, an adviser to the president, says that the success of the Srpska (GIS) electoral list in the Kosovo elections was "a historic victory for Serbia." “We won a historic victory for our country and our citizens in the nine Serb-majority municipalities,” Djuric told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) commenting on the preliminary results of the voting held on Sunday. GIS success "historic victory for Serbia" He added that the municipality of Strpce, with a 14,000-strong Serb population, "will still be led by Serb candidates" as the Independent Liberal Party (SLS) that won the elections. The SLS is a Serb party supported by the government in Pristina. “The success in the local elections has created the conditions for forming a community of Serb municipalities and achieving key objectives of our state and national policy in Kosovo,” said Djuric. He said that the management team in charge of setting up the community of Serb municipalities (ZSO) will come out with a draft text of its statute very soon, and the final document will be decided on after the new government is set up in the municipalities. A decision on the organization of the ZSO, he said, will be the made at the community’s inaugural meeting, in compliance with the agreement on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, signed in Brussels on April 19. Djuric said that according to the ZSO draft statute, the community of Serb municipalities should have an assembly, a council, a chairperson and headquarters in the municipality of North Kosovska Mitrovica. “The community of Serb municipalities will be the pillar of assembly and survival of the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija,” Djuric said. He rejected the claims that the community will have the status of an NGO, and said: "To Hashim Thaci's and the Pristina representatives' great chagrin, and to our great joy, that will certainly not be the case." Asked about the recent controversy, when one of the ministers accused a colleague of "working against the interests of the government," but refused to name him, Djuric said that President Tomislav Nikolic and his cabinet were "carefully monitoring all activities in the government." But he did not wish to directly answer when asked whether they had asked for the claim to be "checked." Speaking about the meeting Nikolic held last week with veteran writer Dobrica Cosic, Djuric said that they spoke about the marking of the 100th anniversary of the First World War, "and not a partition of Kosovo." This presidential adviser added that the anniversary was "a very important subject, because even those countries that played a much smaller role than Serbia are discussing it." (Tanjug, file) RTS Tanjug
GIS success "historic victory for Serbia"
He added that the municipality of Štrpce, with a 14,000-strong Serb population, "will still be led by Serb candidates" as the Independent Liberal Party (SLS) that won the elections.The SLS is a Serb party supported by the government in Priština.
“The success in the local elections has created the conditions for forming a community of Serb municipalities and achieving key objectives of our state and national policy in Kosovo,” said Đurić.
He said that the management team in charge of setting up the community of Serb municipalities (ZSO) will come out with a draft text of its statute very soon, and the final document will be decided on after the new government is set up in the municipalities.
A decision on the organization of the ZSO, he said, will be the made at the community’s inaugural meeting, in compliance with the agreement on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Priština, signed in Brussels on April 19.
Đurić said that according to the ZSO draft statute, the community of Serb municipalities should have an assembly, a council, a chairperson and headquarters in the municipality of North Kosovska Mitrovica.
“The community of Serb municipalities will be the pillar of assembly and survival of the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija,” Đurić said.
He rejected the claims that the community will have the status of an NGO, and said:
"To Hashim Thaci's and the Priština representatives' great chagrin, and to our great joy, that will certainly not be the case."
Asked about the recent controversy, when one of the ministers accused a colleague of "working against the interests of the government," but refused to name him, Đurić said that President Tomislav Nikolić and his cabinet were "carefully monitoring all activities in the government."
But he did not wish to directly answer when asked whether they had asked for the claim to be "checked."
Speaking about the meeting Nikolić held last week with veteran writer Dobrica Ćosić, Đurić said that they spoke about the marking of the 100th anniversary of the First World War, "and not a partition of Kosovo."
This presidential adviser added that the anniversary was "a very important subject, because even those countries that played a much smaller role than Serbia are discussing it."
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