The recent agreement between Belgrade and Pristina on the judiciary shall be implemented in accordance with the First Agreement on normalization of relations, in the legal framework of Kosovo. The question, before whom the Serbian judges would take an oath, remained without answer. Belgrade is now working on it and that no Serb judges cannot be appointed without the consent of the Serbian side, said yesterday the Minister of Justice Nikola Selakovic, responding to questions from members of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija of the Serbian Parliament.
Selakovic explained that the agreement “respected and Resolution 1244, based on which Serbia had no right to the courts and prosecutors in Kosovo and Metohija”. He also said that it will ease the position of the Serbs.
– This what we are doing, would happen with or without us, someone would have enter into this institutions with the Serbian name and surname; who would supposedly work for the Serbian people and would cover the eyes of the international public, as has been already done – said Selakovic, stating that in all negotiations on the Judiciary, in addition to officials from Belgrade, were involved and the President of the High Court in Mitrovica Nikola Kabasic and senior prosecutor Milan Bigovic.
Selakovic has praised the negotiated number of Serbian judges, prosecutors and court staff despite the unequal ethnic balance of power four to one in favour of the Kosovo Albanians, because agreed Mitrovica judicial area covers seven municipalities – 4 Serbian and 3 Albanian. Other argument of Selakovic, in favour of an agreement, was that the Department of the Appellate Court in northern Mitrovica will be the second instance for all cases in all 10 major Serbian municipalities in Kosovo.
