All news websites report that the Kosovo Assembly adopted today a resolution for demolishing the wall in Mitrovica North. The resolution provides that the wall will be demolished in January next year. “The Kosovo Government must make sure that the competent authorities will undertake all legal actions to treat this [the wall] as a political act and an illegal construction. The Kosovo Government must undertake necessary measures so that the Ibar Bridge is not changed and that it keeps the same elements it had before 1999 and not add the wall and stairs.

Most local news websites covered an interview that Mitrovica North Mayor Goran Rakic gave to Belgrade-based Politika daily newspaper, highlighting his quote that the wall in Mitrovica North will not be demolished. Rakic said the base of the wall will be redesigned with stairs that will be connected to a roundabout that is being built in the north. “Everything will be done in accordance with the project that was defined last year and verified this year,” he noted.