"Important that Serbs take part in government"

"Important that Serbs take part in government"

BELGRADE -- An agreement has been reached in a meeting with PM Aleksandar Vučić that all those elected on the Serb list in Kosovo "take a united political front."

This was announced by Office for Kosovo Director Marko Đurić, who "underlined that it is important that the Serbs take on a part of the responsibility for running the institutions and take part in the government," Tanjug said.

At a news conference held after the meeting, Đurić said that "it is in the Serbs' interest to take a united front and participate in the political process in the province so as to further their interests within institutional frameworks."

He noted that, in the next several months, the objective is to work together on creating and building a community of Serb municipalities.

Asked whether that means that the Serbs would enter the Kosovo government and that they would be able to cooperate with Hashim Thaci and Ramush Haradinaj, Đurić said that it was "very important for the Serbs to assume a part of the responsibility for administering the institutions in Kosovo and engage in the government."

“We do not prejudge what would be a future structure of the provincial government, but we know that it is of immense importance for our community in Kosovo to have an impact on the developments,” Đurić told reporters.

Đurić noted that the meeting marked "a turnabout" in the Serbs' political activities, Tanjug reported.

Representatives of the Serbs "voiced the satisfaction about the agreement, and underscored that they had so far paid a huge price for the lack of unity."

Đurić also expressed the expectation that Serb politician in...