Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric told RTS this morning that the latest incident in Mitrovica North in which an underage boy was injured indicates that the brutal attacks against the Serbs continue. He also warned that the violence against the Serbs must be immediately and the most severely sanctioned.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue could continue in December.
He said that early December, at best, would continue dialogue to normalize Belgrade-Pristina relations because of the pending parliamentary elections in Kosovo.
The Coalition of NGOs for Child Protection – KOMF send a document addressed to mayoral candidates to seek commitment that children’s rights and their protection will be part of the priorities of the governing agenda in case of choice.
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Mayoral candidates for Mitrovica North and Zvecan municipalities, Oliver Ivanovic and Dragisa Milovic, criticized yesterday a call of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director, Marko Djuric to the Kosovo Serbs to support Srpska Lista in the local elections, scheduled for 22 October, Kontakt plus radio reported.
They said that divisions Djuric is talking about are dangerous and warned it is the Brussels agreement that breaks the links with Serbia and not citizens wishing to support some other parties or lists.
Meet the eight mayoral candidates who have promised to solve Prishtina’s many problems, from air pollution to wastewater management.
On October 22, 2017, polls will open for Kosovo’s local elections, during which 38 municipalities will choose their mayors and municipal assembly members. There are a total of eight candidates running for mayor of Prishtina, the country’s capital and biggest city.
Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director, Marko Đurić issued a press statement today, by which he urged all Serbs in Kosovo to vote for Srpska Lista, Serbian media reported.
“I am calling on the citizens of Serbia in Kosovo and Metohija to support the candidates of the Srpska Lista in the local elections on October 22, because in this way, among other things, they will vote against the break-up of links of Serbs in the province with the state of Serbia and against the denial of the rights of our people in the province on having their own national interest.”
President of the Serbian List Goran Rakić says that they are not afraid of possible new parliamentary elections in Kosovo, but that he will not speculate whether there will be the new ones.
- I would not speculate. We said that we are ready to participate, Rakić said in response to the question of whether the new parliamentary elections in Kosovo are possible.
Serbian daily Blic runs an analysis on 5 possible solutions for Kosovo, how to get out of the current political deadlock. The daily also said the second option would be the worst for the Serbs in Kosovo.
Irregularities the international community noted during the extraordinary parliamentary elections in Kosovo, made Pristina enable Serbs to get the Kosovo documents, that would significantly increase the number of Serb voters in Kosovo, Sputnik reported.
Number of around100.000 Serbs who had the right to vote in the concluded extraordinary elections in Kosovo, could double following the entry into force of an administrative instruction simplifying procedures to get the Kosovo documents, upon proposal of the Civil Registry Agency in Pristina.
Depending on circumstances and momentum of the Serbian Government attitude towards Kosovo, Slobodan Petrovic, founder of the Autonomous Liberal Party (SLS) sometimes is depicted as a patriot and sometimes as a traitor, Blic daily reports today.
In any case, Petrovic was a politician who realized on time that concrete things for the Serb community could be done through Kosovo institutions.
At the last elections in Kosovo, Srpska Lista won 9 MP seats, while the only party who won 1 seat was SLS.