Mayor of Leposavic and member of the team for the implementation of the Brussels Agreement Dragan Jablanović said that agreement on the dissolving of civil protection, as claimed by the Government of Kosovo, was not reached in Brussels. “Pristina is requesting it because it has the wrong perception on the Civil Protection. They think it is an armed formation, which is totally absurd,” said Jablanović, indicating that people working in the Civil Protection help in natural disasters.
Minister in the Government of Kosovo in charge of the dialogue with Belgrade Edita Tahiri said yesterday that an agreement on the dissolving of Civil Protection formations that exist in municipalities in northern Kosovo has been reached.
“As far as I know, the previous agreement was that certain number of members of the Civil Protection will continue to exist. Our side asked for an additional number, so the story on their dissolution sounds impossible to me,” said Jablanović.
He added that the Civil Protection employs a lot of people. If they would be laid off, according to this recipe other institutions in Kosovo would be halved. “Huge number of people is already jobless, so that additional unemployment would be a disaster and the trigger for the mass exodus of Serbs from the region,” said Jablanović
