After more than two months of boycott, the ministers and MPs from the Serbian list officially returned to the Assembly of Kosovo, since Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa instead of Aleksandar Jablanović appointed the new Minister for Communities and Returns, Dalibor Jevtic, who held that function in the previous mandate.

“The coalition agreement which the Serbian list signed with PDK and LDK before entering the government has not been changed, but we received guarantees that it will be fully respected, without unilateral moves. We agreed to continue working together to achieve the coalition agreement and resolve the problems of Serbian community,” said Dalibor Jevtic.

He denies speculation that the Serbian list returned in Kosovo institutions under US pressure because of the adoption of the Law on the Special Court for crimes committed in Kosovo and Metohija, for which the PDK and LDK cannot provide the parliamentary votes. According to Jevtić, there was no pressure, but it is a desire to work together to solve problems, respecting the MPs from the Serbian List as a political partners. Jevtic says that the upcoming discussion on 7 May related to the Law on the Special Court should not be taken for granted, because the proposal of this document has not yet passed all parliamentary procedures.

“Serbian List is the only political force that acts between the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, and we are not divided according to our parties. I am a minister of the Serbian List,” says Dalibor Jevtic, denying that his return to Kosovo government to replace Jablanović mean slow extrusion of the Movement of Socialist from the Kosovo government. Jevtic was formerly a member of the SLS, which he left in the middle of last year.

He could not comment on yesterday's accusation of Isa Mustafa at the expense of Serbia, because of "genocide" against ethnic Albanians. Jevtic says he "never heard Mustapha's statement" and that he "had a fair meeting with him."