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8 hours agoSerbian media: Agreement on judges, prosecutors not respected by Serbia
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Serbian judges and prosecutors in Kosovo failed at a swearing-in ceremony Tuesday, Beta” reports. The ceremony was to mark the start of implementing a judicial agreement Belgrade and Pristina had reached in the past, writes Periscopi. The February 2015 agreement implies the integration of Serbian judges into the Kosovo judicial system. [...]
Serbian judges and prosecutors in Kosovo failed at a swearing-in ceremony Tuesday, Beta” reports.
The ceremony was to mark the start of implementing a judicial agreement Belgrade and Pristina had reached in the past, writes Periscopi.
The February 2015 agreement implies the integration of Serbian judges into the Kosovo judicial system.
It has been reported that 42 judges and 14 prosecutors from minority communities will swear before Kosovo President Hashim Thaci today.
According to media reports, this could happen “on Friday or Monday”.
Thaci said in a statement that Serbia has prevented judges from swearing in “in order not to allow their integration into the Kosovo judicial system”.
He also “urged Belgrade to do everything they had agreed to make the agreement that was of great importance to the people of Kosovo”.
This is one of the many steps Serbia has taken against Kosovo citizens, as the involvement of judges and prosecutors from minority communities is of great importance for realising community rights and ensuring fair access to justice”, Thaci had declared.
Thaci added that judges missing at today's ceremony represented another “and expression of the European Union's inability as mediator in the process of implementing the” judicial agreement.
Government of Serbia Office for Kosovo Director Marko Djuric said on Tuesday that he expected the work on implementing the agreement to be completed on Friday.
“is an important event, because for the first time since 1999 we will have a Serb majority court, a Serbian court president in Mitrovica, and Serb majority prosecutor”, he said.
On Monday, “Beta” reported that “everything was in place” for the entry into force of the new court agreement.
“Sic has agreed by the Serbian and Kosovo presidents on 13 August, during the EU-mediated talks in Brussels, a new judicial system” must be held tomorrow, said Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson for the European Foreign Action Service (EEAS).
“All steps have been completed to integrate Serbian judges into the Kosovo system, and both sides have fulfilled their obligations in line with the agreement,” she said. /Periscopi/
