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The Kosovo government is still reviewing the management team's work report, which is in charge of drafting the Serb majority municipality Association statute.

The Kosovo Government Co-ordinator in technical dialogue with Serbia, Avni Arifi, told Radio Free Europe, that the government still has no stance regarding what that report contains.

The management team, consists of only members of the Serb community, so the draft has been handed over to the government in the Serbian language, with letters and Cyrillic alphabets. Thus, the Haradinaj government now needs time to translate the text.

“That document is in its translation and once completed, we will be declared for its 48x1>, Arifi said.

He did not want to comment on the contents of this draft status, which is under way.

These processes are from the meetings and it is not up to the Government to declare internal meetings that have occurred. But we expect what draft status will be like “, Arifi added.

Speaking of the composition of the drafting team of the Association statute, Arifi said his composition could not be changed and cannot be changed, as such a composition is envisioned with the agreement reached in Brussels.

“It is international agreement that the managing team have only four Serbs and no Albanians, and this has been the insistence of the Serbian internationals and sides that the agreement signed by Kosovo representatives, which has been, be respected”, Arifi explained.

On the other hand, political analyst Imer Mushkolaj told Radio Free Europe, that given the composition of the body, which has prepared the statute for the establishment of the Serb majority Communist Association, it is not expected that it will be a statute, which, therefore, Asocicon, will see, or predict as an organisation without executive competence.

“did not have to be expected, in fact it is utopia to expect that given that they are of Serbian ethnicity, they could draft a statute different from the one that was drafted. We know that the statute should be sent to the Constitutional Court, as well, when it is ready, but this approach of these experts who have drafted the statute should be seen in Belgrade's efforts to establish Association with executive competence within Kosovo's territory, which would actually be a kind of autonomy, a third level of power” respectively, Muskolaj praised.

Mushkolaj said the signing of the agreement in Brussels itself has made it clear that this association has executive competencies.

We also had the Constitutional Court's conviction that 23 articles were contrary to the constitutional spirit. However, let's not forget that there was recently a call from the European Union for the Association to be founded under the Brussels Agreement, so this part that was said in some of the European Union's official communications that it should also be established under the Constitutional Court's Constitutional Constitutional Constitutional Constitutional Constitutional Constitution, and I believe that the body that drafted the Association statute, has taken into account the Brussels Agreement”, Mushkolaj stressed.

However, Mushkolaj considers that in the event the group for drafting the status of Association has worked contrary to the rules and outside the predetermined framework, it should be punished by the Kosovo government.

On the other hand, if they argue that this statute was drafted based on the Brussels Agreement, then I don't believe there is much to be discussed here, always considering that this agreement has been signed since then by Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, now President Hashim Thaci”, Mushkolaj added.

The Ministry of Management of Local Power last week has handed a report to Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj about the work of the management team.

Forming the Association of Serbian municipalities from official Belgrade and representatives of Kosovo Serbs is seen as the key issue in talks between Pristina and Belgrade in Brussels.

Meanwhile, Kosovo institutions are insisting on implementing all achieved agreements, which, according to Pristina, have been blocked by Belgrade.