Assembly of the Community of Municipalities of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

"Serbs showed responsibility by voting in Kosovo election"

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, BELGRADE -- Serbs voted in early parliamentary elections in Kosovo "in large numbers, despite difficult conditions" demonstrating their responsibility toward their state.

This is according to Marko Đurić, director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo.

BELGRADE - Following the Serbian government's decision to back the participation of the representatives of the Srpska electoral list in the Kosovo-Metohija legislative elections, a meeting has been held at which the conclusion was made that Serbs in northern Kosovo will heed the government's call to vote in Sunday's elections, the government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said in a statement.

BELGRADE - The Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) condemned in the harshest terms on Friday threats issued against Tanjug News Agency correspondent from Kosovska Mitrovica Zeljko Tvrdisic on Facebook, and urged the international community to take them seriously.

The Office called on the authorities to find and punish the one behind the threats.

Marko Jaksic, a political analyst from the mainly Serbian northern part of Kosovo, says the turnout in the Kosovo elections will be lower if Serbia does not put pressure on Kosovo Serbs to vote, as it did in the last local elections held on November 17.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - European Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele stated in Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday that it is important to create conditions for establishing the community of Serb municipalities (ZSO), adding that the municipalities in north Kosovo-Metohija have an important role in the implementation of the Brussels agreement.

BELGRADE- The Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Wednesday that all crimes must be solved and punished, expressing hope that the role of the self-styled "Kosovo Liberation Army" in the province will be revealed in an international court as "no other court has had the will or the courage to find the truth."

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The steering team tasked with establishing the community of Serb municipalities dismissed on Saturday as completely untrue a statement by the Citizens' Initiative Serbia, Democracy, Justice (SDP) on support by representatives of the Serb community in Kosovo-Metohija regarding the idea of forming a so-called Kosovo army.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The Serb political representatives in northern Kosovo-Metohija backed on Saturday the Serbian government and president in their demand that a "special security force" be set up in that part of the province.