Minister for Communities and Return in Kosovo Government Dalibor Jevtic said today that the Serbs will be a significant factor in the Kosovo Assembly and theirs position should be used to solve the problems of the Serbian community.

Kosovo's Constitutional Court will evaluate the constitutionality of the election process of the Chairperson of the Assembly of Kosovo and the decision is expected sometime mid-August, said Jevtic to Tanjug agency, stressing that he expects in September talk on the formation of Government.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Assembly of Kosovo have signed an agreement for admission of twelve interns in the Assembly. The move is part of the parliamentary development project on social policies.

Agreement was signed by the UNDP director for Kosovo and United Nations Kosovo Team coordinator, Andrew Russell, and the General Secretary of the Kosovo Assembly, Ismet Krasniqi.

Involvement of interns in the Assembly’s work will enable them to get professional knowledge from the parliamentary field during a period of one year.

Kosovo’s Constitutional Court has confirmed to have received the request from the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) to interpret the constitutive session of the Kosovo Assembly and election of Isa Mustafa to the post of the Speaker but the judges have not yet met to decide whether to temporarily suspend Assembly’s works as requested by the PDK.

Serbian List, in order to qualify for taking part in 8 June elections, registered as a political entity with the Kosovo Central Election Commission (CEC) and ran in elections that were organised in accordance to Kosovo laws.

Although MPs of the Serbian List supported the coalition gathered around Ramush Haradinaj in the Assembly, they might not support Haradinaj for the formation of a government.  

Despite the praise of official Belgrade and Ramush Haradinaj at the expense of the Serbian List (since it made possible election of Mustafa for Parliament speaker), political analyst Dusan Janjic commented that the "involvement of Serbian representatives in problems of the Albanian majority is not a clever move".

The president of the parliamentary group of the Serbian List, Aleksandar Jablanović, said after the constitution of the Assembly of Kosovo that the Serbian List showed "its strength and constructivism." "As a political entity in the parliament of Kosovo we hope that in the future we will have the opportunity to contribute to the work of the Assembly as it was the case today, when our MP presided over Assembly session," said Jablanović.

Votes of minorities enabled leader of Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Isa Mustafa, to get elected as the Kosovo Assembly Speaker in a controversial session accompanied by verbal clashes between MPs. As a result, the way the Speaker was elected will be interpreted by the Constitutional Court, an institution which already ended the mandate of two former Kosovo presidents. Without the court reaching its decision, the president cannot propose a candidate for prime minister, thinks the paper.

The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) Ramush Haradinaj assessed that it is good that voice of Serbs was heard yesterday in the Kosovo Assembly and added that it is also good that Serb MPs, by taking part in the voting, have taken over their role in the parliament.

Director of the Serbian Government Media Relations Office, Milivoje Mihajlovic said that Serbs supported the election of Isa Mustafa for President of the Assembly primarily to prevent irregularities and delays in the formation of the parliament.