Vulin: Names of perpetrators to be made public soon

BELGRADE Aleksandar Vulin says that "in the coming days" the names of persons who caused incidents during the local elections in Kosovo would be revealed. "Following the meeting of the Bureau for Coordination of Security Services highly specific measures have been undertaken, and in the next few days, certainly before the (second round of) elections, you will know the names of the people who did what they did," Vulin told RTS. Vulin: Names of perpetrators to be made public soon On November 3, voting was suspended at three polling stations in northern Kosovska Mitrovica after masked men burst in and smashed the ballot boxes. Because of this, the voting in the three places - where about 23,000 people are eligible to vote - will be repeated on November 17. Vulin rejected accusations coming from Enver Hoxhaj, the foreign minister in the government in Pristina, who blamed "Serb state structures" for the incidents. The opposition Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) has come out with the same claim against the authorities. "In the north there are several thousand KFOR members. There is not a single remotely respectable intelligence service on the planet that does not have its exponents in Kosovo, yet Serbia managed to hide it from everyone - except from Hoxhaj and the DSS?" Vulin was quoted as saying. He added the accusations were "an attempt to spite Serbia, so that Pristina can profit a little more from the misfortune that happened to us a week ago." Vulin has once again called on the Serbs in Kosovo to vote, saying that it was "important" that the future mayor of Kosovska Mitrovica is a Serb and not an Albanian. Agim Deva, of Hashim Thaci's the Democratic Party of Kosovo, received most votes in the first round of voting held in the town. (Beta, file) Beta RTS

Vulin: Names of perpetrators to be made public soon

On November 3, voting was suspended at three polling stations in northern Kosovska Mitrovica after masked men burst in and smashed the ballot boxes.

Because of this, the voting in the three places - where about 23,000 people are eligible to vote - will be repeated on November 17.

Vulin rejected accusations coming from Enver Hoxhaj, the foreign minister in the government in Priština, who blamed "Serb state structures" for the incidents. The opposition Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) has come out with the same claim against the authorities.

"In the north there are several thousand KFOR members. There is not a single remotely respectable intelligence service on the planet that does not have its exponents in Kosovo, yet Serbia managed to hide it from everyone - except from Hoxhaj and the DSS?" Vulin was quoted as saying.

He added the accusations were "an attempt to spite Serbia, so that Priština can profit a little more from the misfortune that happened to us a week ago."

Vulin has once again called on the Serbs in Kosovo to vote, saying that it was "important" that the future mayor of Kosovska Mitrovica is a Serb and not an Albanian.

Agim Deva, of Hashim Thaci's the Democratic Party of Kosovo, received most votes in the first round of voting held in the town.