Training for Kosovo-Serb judges and prosecutors from northern Kosovo has been held in Montenegro in organization of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. The head of OSCE Mission in Kosovo Jean-Claude Schlumberger said that ‘judicial system in northern Kosovo was for years dysfunctional’. “Such situation negatively influenced on the rule of law, including the right on access to justice and trials within the reasonable time,” said Schlumberger. Training was held on 16-20 May with the goal of raising the capacity of judges and prosecutors from northern Kosovo, who are meant to integrate into the Kosovo judicial system.

Nikola Kabašić, representative of the Kosovo-Serb judicial community from northern Kosovo said that continued and systematic training of professionals, whose main role is promotion, implementation and protection of the human rights, is duty of all local and international institutions and organizations.

“This is why this training is important, because the level of democracy in certain society is measured by the level of respect for human rights and basic freedoms,” said Kabašić. Pristina-based daily Zeri informed that there are announcements that local judges and prosecutors of both nationalities, Kosovo-Albanian and Kosovo-Serb, should start working in Mitrovica in October.