Municipal Assemblies of North Mitrovica, Zvečan/Zveçan, Leposavić/Leposaviç and Zubin Potok on Friday adopted, almost at simultaneously held extraordinary sessions, amended and supplemented local budgets, encompassing and salaries for employees in the health and education sectors in northern Kosovo.
Today in Zvecan municipality will be held the first extraordinary session of the Municipal Assembly and one of two agenda items is - "the adoption of the budget for 2015 under the direction of the Ministry of Finance." Sessions in Zvecan, Leposavic and North Mitrovica begin at 15 pm, and in Zubin Potok at 17:00.
“Kosovo has committed itself that Kosovo Security Force troops would not embark in the north of Kosovo without a preliminary permission from NATO,” this is NATO’s official response to Radio Kosova.
This office also rejected the claims of Serbian officials for existence of an agreement between NATO and Serbia which does not allow embarking of KSF as well as the future Armed Forces troops in the northern municipalities.
Kosovo Minister for dialogue Edita Tahiri says that property of Kosovo was never discussed with the Serbian side and claims that Serbia has recognized Kosovo, by stating where bigger and smaller parts of Gazivode Lake are located.
“I consider that Serbia has recognized the state of Kosovo with this stand point, speaking of where smaller and where bigger parts of the lake are located,” said Tahiri.
Participants at today’s debate in Čaglavica/Çagllavicë said that with the integration of northern Kosovo there are more donations along with more investments in development, however problems remain during implementation of projects.
Kosovo’s Deputy Minister of Justice, Lirak Celaj, reported on Monday to the Committee on the Rights and Interests of Communities and Returns on the structure of judges and prosecutors in the judicial system. Celaj said that the Justice Agreement between Pristina and Belgrade was a significant achievement for justice, which according to him, it will integrate the Serb community in Kosovo institutions, particularly the judiciary.
The accounts of the municipalities in Kosovo North, which are blocked by the Kosovo government for the two months, could be finally unblocked. As Vecernje Novosti unofficially learned, the mayors of the four municipalities will meet during the week with Abdullah Hoti, Finance Minister in Kosovo government, and will try to find a solution for this problem.
Following a range of incidents in North Mitrovica, all four bridges over the Ibar/Ibë River in the town are under round-the-clock surveillance as of Saturday upon the request of Serbs from the North Mitrovica and in agreement with KFOR , EULEX and the EU.
The Mayor of North Mitrovica Goran Rakić said that presence of KFOR and Kosovo Police officers aims at providing freedom of movement and they will react only in case of new incidents.
Five juvenile Albanians have been arrested yesterday afternoon in North Mitrovica after they crossed the main bridge over the Ibar/Ibër River, which separates North and South Mitrovica.
Regional Kosovo Police head of operations Željko Bojić said to Radio Kontakt Plus that batons have been found with two of them.
Parents of juveniles have been informed that their children have been arrested, along with the social service and prosecutor, said Bojić.
Leaders of local administration in northern Kosovo requested yesterday from Kosovo Police a concrete measures for the stabilization of situation in North Mitrovica following the range of incidents in that town during the Easter.