Based on the agreement reached in Brussels, Kosovo government yesterday adopted decision on ‘dissolution of the so called civil protection in municipalities in northern Kosovo and their integration into Kosovo institutions’. This decision follows the commitments of the Kosovo government deriving from the Brussels dialogue with Serbia and serves as a legal basis for integration of 483 individuals into legitimate Kosovo institutions, reads the statement published on the web page of the Kosovo government.
Belgrade-based paper Danas yesterday tried to obtain legal explanation about how could Pristina disband state structures established by Serbia, taking into account that based on the Serbian Constitutions and the USC Resolution 1244, Kosovo is still part of Serbia. There was no one willing to comment this ‘detail’ in the Serbian Government, too.
In talks in Brussels Belgrade requested that all 751 members of the Civil Protection from northern Kosovo are integrated into Kosovo institutions. In the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Meothija said that ‘most of employees from the Civil Protection in northern Kosovo will be settled – part of them through integration, some 80 of them will retire, whereas the rest will be taken care off through the administrative system of the Republic of Serbia, which is preparing the law that will regulate this issue. Belgrade is mostly interested about full integration of members from the Civil Protection with permanent work contracts, and stressed that integration is ‘voluntary’.
In early July, according to information posted at web portal KoSSev, 80 members of the Civil Protection have signed contracts with the Agency for Emergency Management.
On 26 March 2015 Belgrade and Pristina have signed the agreement in Brussels on dissolution of the Civil Protection in northern Kosovo which, according to speculations, was one of Pristina’s conditions for opening the dialogue on Association/Community of Serb municipalities.
