There is a good legal framework on the rights of non-majority communities in Kosovo, however, it is not implemented, KIM Radio reported.

This was conclusion made at the regional conference “Protection and promotion of human rights and non-majority communities rights” held in Pristina yesterday.

Representatives of the Kosovo government, international organizations, and guests from Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albanian gathered at the conference to discuss about the rights of the non-majority communities.

Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Communities and Returns, Dalibor Jevtic said one of the issues non-majority communities face is lack of the implementation of existing legal framework guaranteeing the rights of communities.

“What is not implemented, and is stipulated in the Kosovo Constitution, is a quota of employed persons from non-majority communities at the central level and in public institutors. The law stipulates at least 10 percent of employees in the institutions should be from the non-majority communities, but this is not the case,” Jevtic said.

Gazmend Salijevic, Chairperson of the Consultative Community Council also said until recently communities faced ban on school books for the Serbian schools. There are also problems with lack of school books for Bosniac and Turkish communities, KIM Radio concluded.