Association's fate unclear after crossing deadline

Our “expectations are that this draft will be based or in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo. This is our reception, and that this process, which is actually an obligation of an international agreement that Kosovo has, to conclude as soon as possible with the period of”, Free Europe Gashi, spokeswoman for the Government of Kosovo, told Radio.
On the other hand, Kosovo's Ministry of Management of Local Power confirms to Radio Free Europe that the Serbian majority municipalities' Association station will be delivered directly to Brussels by the team for drafting the draft state. In a written response from the ministry it is said that <x0 ...raport from the last meeting held by the management team Monday surrenders to the Ministry of Management of Local Power. [ MAPL] and immediately as soon as it is translated it will be sent to the cabinet of Prime Minister”. In response from the ministry, it is also stressed that last time the prime minister's office has turned the report back because it was only in the Serbian language.
Officials at the ministry say once it is translated it will be prosecuted in respective instances. spokeswoman Gashi also said the Kosovo government has yet to accept any new documents from the management group for drafting the statute. Kosovo's “government several weeks ago has accepted a verbal process from a meeting of the management team, but this is not the final document that can be called draft-status. We haven't received such a document so far, and when that happens, of course we will announce the opinion. So so far we have not received any documents that could be called a draft state for Association”, Gashi said. Maja Kocijanciq, spokeswoman for the European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Moghrini, has told Radio Free Europe that “ekipi manager has had four months to draft the Association statute”.

According to the EU, at the time this team informs Brussels of the results of their work, this will be discussed at EU summits by Kosovo and Serbia's president. Political analyst Artan Mujaziri told Radio Free Europe that it is least expected that a team consisting of Serbs only work for the Association statute, within the framework of Kosovo's constitutional competencies. According to him, in this case the group could expect a show of Serbian patriotism in that document. The best of this work is that any document will undergo the assessment of the Constitutional Court. Hence, this group and other groups can write whatever they want, but eventually it will depend on the assessment of the Constitutional Court.

So there can only be a waste of time if they eventually want to have executive competencies because such a thing will be unable by the assessment of the Constitutional Court”, Muhramiri said. The establishment of the Association or Community of Serb-run municipalities is the product of Brussels' agreements, reached within the dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade with the ease of the European Union. The government in Pristina views this body as an association with non-executive competencies. As long as Belgrade and the representatives of Serbs in Kosovo claim that the Association, or as they call it, the Community of Serb municipalities, will also have executive competencies. (REL)