Protest over Pristina’s refusal to certify Serb charters
Kosovska Mitrovica Mayor Goran Rakic Wednesday expressed a strong protest at the Pristina administration refusing to certify the charters of four majority-Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo for four months now.
(kosovocompromisestuff) Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Pristina is causing instability and calls into question everything that has been agreed with Belgrade and the achievements so far in the normalization of life in the province, Rakic warned in a statement to the public.“We have every reason to assume that Pristina is obstructing the dialogue with Belgrade and that it will later blame Belgrade for that obstruction, which has already become common in a way,” said Rakic.“It seems very obvious that all this is going on to make new local elections in northern Kosovo inevitable,” he said.The mayor and municipal leadership of north Kosovska Mitrovica said that the Serbs in northern Kosovo are not against any new local elections, as they are sure that they will achieve even better results than at the end of last year.They expressed their gratitude to the Serbian government which, as a guarantor of the Brussels agreement, is doing all it can to ensure the provisions of the agreement on normalizing relations with Pristina are respected and implemented on the ground, while Pristina is doing all in its power to make sure the document remains “a dead letter.”
