K. Albanian official criticizes international missions

Kosovo Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi criticized the international community on Tuesday "for not taking action in northern Kosovo".

Izvor: Tanjug

Tuesday, 08.05.2012.

12:04

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Kosovo Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi criticized the international community on Tuesday "for not taking action in northern Kosovo". The northern parts of the province have a majority Serb population that rejects both the ethnic Albanian unilateral declaration of independence made in early 2008, and the authority of the government in Pristina. K. Albanian official criticizes international missions Now Rexhepi complained that he had been pressing KFOR and EULEX "to act" there, but that the answer had always been negative, "with the excuse that the time was not right". "The best moment for the Kosovo institutions to exercise their authority in the north will be the moment when the new Serbian government is set up," the Kosovo Albanian official noted in a live broadcast on the RTK television outlet. He said that the local elections Serbs staged in the northern municipalities of Zubin Potok and Zvecan on Sunday "had no legal effect whatsoever". However, he did not rule out the possibility of negotiations with, as he put it, "illegal representatives of illegal municipalities in the north" - if the people there choose them as their legitimate representatives. "Attempts were made to stage local elections in other settlements and (Serb) enclaves as well," he added, noting that "special units of the Kosovo police" were ready to intervene during the Sunday elections in Kosovo, but that there was no need for that. Rexhepi did not rule out the possibility of use of force so that what he referred to as "order" could be established in the north. Tanjug

K. Albanian official criticizes international missions

Now Rexhepi complained that he had been pressing KFOR and EULEX "to act" there, but that the answer had always been negative, "with the excuse that the time was not right".

"The best moment for the Kosovo institutions to exercise their authority in the north will be the moment when the new Serbian government is set up," the Kosovo Albanian official noted in a live broadcast on the RTK television outlet.

He said that the local elections Serbs staged in the northern municipalities of Zubin Potok and Zvečan on Sunday "had no legal effect whatsoever".

However, he did not rule out the possibility of negotiations with, as he put it, "illegal representatives of illegal municipalities in the north" - if the people there choose them as their legitimate representatives.

"Attempts were made to stage local elections in other settlements and (Serb) enclaves as well," he added, noting that "special units of the Kosovo police" were ready to intervene during the Sunday elections in Kosovo, but that there was no need for that.

Rexhepi did not rule out the possibility of use of force so that what he referred to as "order" could be established in the north.

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