KoSSev portal reported that following the report of Voice of America on Vesna Mikic being deposed of her function as Kosovo Deputy Minister of Justice because of her comment on NATO bombing of the-then Federal Republic Yugoslavia, while there was no reaction to the similar statement that Ivan Todosijevic, the Minister of Local Self-Governance Administration has made, Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj deposed Minister Todosijevic of his function today.

“Today, I have made the decision to depose the Minister of Local Self-Governance Administration Ivan Todosijevic. Hate speech in the statements of the minister cannot be tolerated. It is a nonsense that one of our colleagues shows such ignorance, hatred and insults victims of Racak, and other victims of the Milosevic’s regime, as well as to accept and approve terror of that regime. That is not justified. There is no place in the government I lead, for anyone who in any way insult others based on ethnic, racial, religious or other backgrounds, nor for those who intend to accept such policy. The decision enters into force immediately,” Haradinaj wrote on his Facebook profile.

Ivan Todosijevic is the second minister of Srpska Lista to be deposed of his function. Minister of Agriculture Nenad Rikalo was deposed in early February.