Geography of Kosovo

The newly elected mayor of the Kosovo-Serb majority municipality of North Mitrovica took his oath of office on Friday in a tense atmosphere following extraordinary local elections a month ago that most local Serbs shunned. 

Erden Atic is a member of the ruling Vetvendosje party, which has few members in the town.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Monday Pristina was using institutional violence and that last week's local elections in the north of Kosovo-Metohija were a "simulation."

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Wednesday special police forces of the so-called Kosovo had arrested three Post of Serbia employees in the north of Kosovo-Metohija earlier in the day.

The European Union on Monday criticised the elections held on Sunday in mainly Serbian north Kosovo, saying the very low turnout meant they offered no "long-term solution" to the crisis in the north.

"What happened was the defeat of Kurti and his regime. What happened was more than that, yesterday the Serbian people showed that they are looking for a different approach from the international community, above all from the Western powers, that they are looking for greater respect, dialogue, and not imposition of the solutions," said Vui.

Just to recall that 1,566 Albanians and 13 Serbs took part in the special elections in four municipalities in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, said the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovi. Petkovi specified that in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica, two persons of Serbian nationality voted, seven in Leposavic, four in Zvean, and none in Zubin Potok.

In Kosovo, extraordinary local elections will be held on 23 April 2023 in four predominantly Serb municipalities in the north of Kosovo (Severna Mitrovica, Leposavić, Zubin Potok and Zvečan) to elect the municipal mayors as well as councilors for the municipal councils in Leposavić and Zvečan.

"Sunday would be a day when the shame of Europe and the world will be officially marked because of what they organized and what they are doing," said Vui.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija slammed on Friday a raid mounted by Pristina's special police on the home of a Serb family in the Kosovo municipality of Zubin Potok earlier in the day.

The meeting was scheduled after the Kosovo police shot a Serb, Milan Jovanovi, and a protest was held regarding that attack.
The representative of the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija, Dalibor Jevti, stated that today's position of Serbia is much stronger and stated that the new measures would not be possible if it were not so.