Chairperson of the Mitrovica North Municipal Assembly, Dejan Guresic read conclusions from today’s session where 10 Serb-majority municipalities’ representatives participated. The conclusions were adopted unanimously, KoSSev portal reports.

1. In case Pristina is not ready to start working on the establishment of the Association of the Serb Municipalities in the next three weeks, Serb municipalities and institutions would start forming the Association and its bodies independently. We are ready to cooperate with Belgrade and Pristina as envisaged by the agreement in the establishment of the ZSO Statute.
2. We request that order givers and perpetrators of terror against the citizens, Serb representatives and media representatives on 26 March this year, in Mitrovacki dvor are the most urgently prosecuted and punished, while the minister and police director should submit resignations over the illegal attack of the Kosovo special police.
3. We call upon representatives of the international community present in these areas, foremost KFOR and EULEX to increase their presence and take preventive measures in case of attacks against the Serbian people and their representatives in the forthcoming period, as it is an obligation deriving from their mandates. We would hold them responsible for any peace disorder or endangering lives of our citizens.

Chairperson of Srpska Lista, Goran Rakic said coalition with Ramush Haradinaj is dissolved and that Srpska Lista would be in the opposition now. If someone thought Serbs would be a decoration only, they made a terrible mistake, Rakic added.

He repeated if Pristina does not start forming the ZSO, they would do it on their own. According to Rakic this is not a unilateral move, but an obligation of both Brussels and Pristina.

Rakic also called upon Albanians not to fall prey to provocation, adding that “together we will preserve peace.”

He said that institutions responsible for the use of violence should be punished, and urged Serbs once again not to join the Kosovo army.

Outgoing Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Communities and Returns, Dalibor Jevtic said the time has come as never before, that all Serbs united start a democratic struggle for dignity, peace and their ultimate goal and it is to have more Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija in the future.

“We have withdrawn from the Kosovo Government and it was the only possible decision we could take. The question now is if our voice would be less heard? It won’t, we would seek their responsibility. Our MPs would speak at every Kosovo Assembly session and I assure you, tomorrow I would go to the session of the government and tell them everything in the face,” Jevtic said.

Ksenija Bozovic from Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) said they came to the session to support ideas Oliver Ivanovic was talking about. Bozovic added citizens are afraid and concerned and she also condemned what happened on Monday.

“We would not allow to be humiliated, we would stand by our state, we are waiting to hear messages from our President Vucic and we are ready to support the initiative,” Bozovic said.

Dragisa Milovic, former mayor of Zvecan and close associate of Oliver Ivanovic said he came to the session to support an initiative to establish ZSO in line with what has been agreed in Brussels. It should have been done earlier, he assessed.

We witnessed how one after the other our institutions ceased to exist and nothing happened in regards to ZSO, Milovic said, adding that he supports the decision of Srpska Lista to leave the Kosovo Government.

“To pull our ranks together as we used to do it and it was our strongest democratic tool, along with Resolution 1244, and this is something we have to emphasize at all times,” Milovic added.

“We gave everything and got nothing. And we have to stop, a red line needs to be drawn at a certain moment,” Milovic said.