The assemblies of the four northern Kosovo municipalities will meet on Friday, with assembly members and mayors expected to sign a statement, officially assuming their duties, Zubin Potok mayor Stevan Vulovic said on Thursday.
Municipal assembly sessions are to be held in Leposavic, Zubin Potok, Zvecan and North Kosovska Mitrovica, Vulovic told Tanjug.
With EU mediation, representatives of Belgrade and Pristina are in discussions in Brussels on the holding of the sessions in order to iron out protocol details, he said.
We cannot accept Kosovo’s symbols, and the most we can accept is the name of the municipality in the header of the statement to be signed, Vulovic noted.
There will be no invitations, and assembly members will only be sent notifications that the sessions are to take place on Friday, he said.
The sessions are considered to be a continuation of those postponed in late December, Vulovic added.
Initially scheduled for December 24, the ceremonial sessions of the four northern Kosovo municipal assemblies were postponed at the request of the Serbian government and the EU, while Kosovo’s ministry of administration and local self-government said that the municipalities have not met the legal conditions for holding ceremonial sessions.
Officials of local self-government authorities in northern Kosovo last week failed to reach an agreement with EU representatives on the protocol and the schedule of the sessions.
Kosovo Serb representatives in Brussels are Zvecan mayor Vucina Jankovic and Ljubomir Maric, a member of the steering team for establishing the Serb community of municipalities.
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