Kosovo’s Deputy Minister for Culture, Youth, and Sports, Rexhep Hoti, reacted to a statement made by Serbian President, Tomislav Nikolic, in an interview for a Belgrade paper where he said that the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities foresees substantial autonomy for the Serb community. In a Facebook post, Hoti said the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities can “never” become substantial autonomy and that such a statement will only harm the Serb community in Kosovo and normalization of relations process. Hoti also criticized Kosovo’s institutional leaders for not condemning Nikolic’s statement saying it is their constitutional responsibility to do so. Further in the post, Hoti tells Nikolic that there is no political class in Kosovo, “no matter how corrupt or criminalized” that would accept the creation of an Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities that would be ethnically based and with executive/legislative powers.