Kosovo Serbs to be consulting with government in Belgrade

BELGRADE - Vladeta Kostic, head of the electoral headquarters of the Serb list in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), has said that he and Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic have agreed that a meeting should be held between representatives of the list and the prime minister to decide about the participation of Serbs in the Kosovo government.

“In the future, Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija will not be making any decisions without consultation with the Serbian government,” Kostic told Tanjug on Tuesday.

In the recent parliamentary elections in KiM, the Serb list of won nine out of 10 possible seats.

“We won nine seats, but our fight does not stop here and we will we require the division of mandates to be carried out as prescribed by the Law on General Elections, by which the elections were conducted in the first place, instead of seeing that being done by some kind of a working group of the Central Election Commission,” said Kostic.

Representatives of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AFK) made a deal with the Democratic League of Kosovo (DLK) and the Initiative for Kosovo on Tuesday that Ramus Haradinaj, AFK leader, should become Kosovo’s new prime minister.

The DLK will get the offices of the Kosovo president and speaker of parliament, while Initiative for Kosovo leader Fatmir Ljimaj will serve as deputy prime minister.

Photo Tanjug Video, camera operator Marko Trosic