Albanians have responsibility for ZSO project

GRACANICA- Serb list leader Aleksandar Jablanovic said Wednesday that the Albanian side also had a share in the responsibility to set up a community of Serb municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

Speaking at a meeting of representatives of Serb-majority municipalities in Gracanica, Jablanovic said that the Kosovo government should show a constructive approach and implement what it had signed in practice.

"We should not be looking at any new agreements before seeing that which has been signed implemented, and I hope that we will leave this meeting more united," said Jablanovic, who was prime minister in the Kosovo government before Prime Minister Isa Mustafa dismissed him from his position as minister of returns in February.

Jablanovic was dismissed for branding a group of ethnic Albanians as "savages." The group threw stones at and broke a winshield of a bus carrying displaced Serbs and prevented them from visiting the graves of their ancestors on the day before the Serbian Orthodox Christmas.

We should all focus on one single goal and it should lead to not having any one city or town in KiM where Serbs cannot go to, to not having to observe Orthodox holidays under police escort, to letting people know where their ancestors' graves are and to having the rights guaranteed to the Serbs on paper respected on the ground, said Jablanovic.