Goran Rakic

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The four municipalities in northern Kosovo-Metohija scheduled separate sessions on Wednesday to adopt municipal charters, and Ksenija Bozovic, president of the municipal assembly of northern Mitrovica, has said that draft charters are status-neutral.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbia's Minister without Portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Aleksandar Vulin said in Kosovska Mitrovica that KiM will always be a priority for the Serbian government and all its bodies, and that Serbia will not cease to care for its people in Kosovo.

ZVECAN - The members of the four municipal assemblies in northern Kosovo-Metohija on Thursday voiced concern over the announced plans of the Pristina authorities to form a Kosovo army.

"We see this as an act of open threat to security in the region and the safety of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija", North Mitrovica mayor Goran Rakic said at the assemblies' joint session in Zvecan.

Serb municipalities "could break off cooperation with EULEX"

ZVEČAN -- Councilors from municipal assemblies in northern Kosovo on Thursday voiced concern over the announced plans of the Priština authorities to form a Kosovo army.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Newly elected Mayor of Kosovska Mitrovica Goran Rakic requested on Tuesday from international representatives in Kosovo that all persons from Kosovska Mitrovica kept in custody without reason be released pending their trials.

BELGRADE - The mayoral election victory of the candidate of the Citizens' Initiative Srpska (GI Srpska), Goran Rakic, in northern Kosovska Mitrovica confirms that Serbia's state policy enjoys support among citizens in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), member of the Presidency of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Marko Djuric said on Monday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The candidate for mayor of northern Kosovska Mitrovica on the slate of the Citizens' Initiative Srpska (GI Srpska), Goran Rakic, declared an election victory on Sunday evening after a re-run of the mayoral election in that town, and signaled that his first task would be to demand that all Serbs that had been unfairly detained should be released pending trial.

Serbian government-backed candidate wins in KM

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- The Citizens' Initiative (GI) Srpska has announced that its candidate for mayor of northern Kosovska Mitrovica, Goran Rakić, won in Sunday's elections.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A total of 33 polling places in seven polling centres closed in northern Kosovska Mitrovica at 7 p.m. where citizens cast their ballots for the mayor of the city in north Kosovo-Metohija.

Citizens who were at the polling stations by the closing have the chance to cast their ballots and the polling centres officially closed at 7 p.m.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Member of Kosovo's Central Election Commission Nenad Rikalo said on Sunday he expected the votes from the rerun of the mayoral election in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, to be counted on the spot.