The Park of Peace in Mitrovica, across the main bridge on the river Ibar, is not going to be removed and a compromise-based solution will be found, said the mayor of North Mitrovica, Goran Rakić, commenting on a statement of the Kosovo minister for dialogue, Edita Tahiri, that the bridge needs to be removed.
Mitrovica mayor, Agim Bahtiri, has visited Kroi i Vitakut site where works to rebuild Albanian houses are ongoing. From there he had a telephone conversation with mayor of Mitrovica North, Goran Rakic.
Rebuilding of the Albanian houses at Kroi i Vitakut neighborhood in Mitrivica, was impeded today by dozens of Serb people.
Kosova Press has learned that this group of Serb individuals has attacked at around 09:30 an excavator of “Euro Ndertimi” company, which was used to build six Albanian houses at this neighborhood.
At least 500 former Serbian police officers and administrative staff from all former Serbian police department in northern and southern Kosovo will stage a protest tomorrow at 11:00 in North Mitrovica in front of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Meotohija, which is only the initial one since they announced another one in a week time, which could be radicalized by blockades of administrative crossings in the north if their requests are not met.
Lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic voiced expectation that trial to the leader of the Civic Initiative SDP Olvier Ivanovic, which is ongoing in North Mitrovica, will be over until the end of the year, at latest.
Like in case of Serbian police officers who were integrated last year in the Kosovo Police, Kosovo judicial system will integrate Serbian judges, prosecutors and judicial administrative staff in Kosovo and Metohija until the 1 September.
Court trial of Oliver Ivanovic, Dragoljub Delibasic, Ilija and Nebojsa Vujacic and Aleksandar Lazovic will continue today in North Mitrovica. Ivanovic and others are charged for serious crimes committed against Albanian civilians in Kosovska Mitrovica in 1999 and 2000. Oliver Ivanovic is leader of the Civic Initiative SDP Oliver Ivanovic. Trial will continue with the testimonies of the prosecution witnesses.
Bank accounts of four municipalities in northern Kosovo are blocked as of yesterday without any justification, said president of the local assembly of North Mitrovica Ksenija Bozovic to RTK2, and added that it is about a pressure which benefits no one. Bozovic stressed that budgets of all four municipalities have been adopted as stipulated by laws and the Brussels Agreement and that there is no basis for the blockade.
The principle of willingness should be the main condition for deployment of judges in Kosovo, however the question remains how many judges from Serbia would agree to be integrated into the Kosovo judicial system. The president of the High Judicial Council of Serbia Dragomir Milojevic today said that judges cant’ be deployed into Kosovo courts against their own will and that the first criteria should be their good will, that they wish to be integrated into the Kosovo judiciary, whereas the final deal in relation to a relevant procedure has not been reached yet.