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Mayors to confer tomorrow in North Mitrovica (Radio Kontakt Plus)

Mayors of Serbian-majority municipalities in northern Kosovo will meet tomorrow in North Mitrovica in order to address the current situation in that part of Kosovo and their positions on EULEX. North Mitrovica Mayor Goran Rakic stated that the mayors will discuss their relations with EULEX in light of that mission’s operation in Zubin Potok/Zubin Potok Municipality and the pressure it is putting on that municipality’s incumbent mayor, Stevan Vulovic, and former mayor Slavisa Ristic.

Labels against EULEX appear overnight in Mitrovica (Kontakt plus radio)

In Mitrovica last night, messages urging EULEX to go home were plastered at various locations in the city, including traffic signs. The posters add that the EU mission in Kosovo is "the enemy of the Serbian people." The labels feature a swastika next to the EULEX logo. Some of the labels contain the words: "EULEX GO HOME". Aside from Mitrovica, the messages have also been seen at several locations in Zubin Potok. The perpetrator is not known.

Jaksic: Serbs leaving Kosovo after Brussels agreement was signed (Beta)

A statement of the former minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic that more and more Serbs are leaving southern province has prompted reactions of Serbian politicians from Kosovo. Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) official Marko Jaksic assessed that Serbs are ‘silently migrating’ from Kosovo and that such process has now been affecting and northern Kosovo where Serbs are majority.

Ban requests establishment of Special Court by early 2015 at the latest (Koha)

The paper reports on page two that United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in his quarterly report on Kosovo, has called on Kosovo institutions to establish, by early 2015 at the latest, the Special Court that will handle allegations of war crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army. In his report, Ban talks about the political situation in the country, with special emphasis on the northern part of Mitrovica following tensions after the construction of the Peace Park on Ibër/Ibar River.

Handover of the Office to the North Mitrovica Municipality (RTK2)

As a part of the Ahtisaari plan, two years ago was opened an Administrative office for North Mitrovica, which since then provided municipal services to the citizens of North Mitrovica. After four attempts, at the local elections was elected the Mayor, and shortly thereafter formed the Municipal Assembly. “Administrative Office of Northern Mitrovica was established with the aim to be the basis for forming municipality North Mitrovica.

Bahtiri: We insisted on barricades removal (Gazeta Express)

Kosovo delegation was unified and insisted on the removal of all barricades in Mitrovica as soon as possible as they are placed in violation to the Kosovo laws and agreements reached in Brussels, reads a press release issued by Mitrovica municipality upon return of its mayor, Agim Bahtiri, from Brussels as part of the Kosovo delegation. Bahtiri is reported to have spoken in Brussels about the great work done since he came to the mayor’s post on stabilizing the situation, return of all displaced persons to their property and on relaxing relations between Albanians and Serbs which provided conc