GLPS: Association/Community affects Kosovo’s state structure (Telegrafi)
Group for Legal and Political Studies (GLPS) think thank said today in a statement that Pristina-Belgrade agreement on Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities affects issues of structural importance to Kosovo and its multiethnic values. GLPS recalled that Kosovo was built on the principles of a constitutional democracy and thus reflects a deeply European model of a multiethnic country. “Relations between ethnicities in a constitutional democracy are built on principles whereby institutions rest above ethnic divisions and they do not represent or reflect ethnically separate values,” reads the statement. GLPS further adds that article 9 of the document defining responsibilities of the Association/Community gives the mechanism the mandate for exclusive representation of the Serb community which, the think tank says is in conflict to the multiethnic model of Kosovo as set out by its Constitution.