Today the new mayors of three municipalities in the north swear.

“Next to public buildings in these municipalities will be held constitutional sessions and [will become] the oath of three new mayors”, the prime minister said yesterday, not to mention what buildings are being discussed.

But, the elected mayor of the Zvecan municipality, Ilir Peci, has told Radio Free Europe that the ceremony of his solemn oath will be held in the village of Boletin, at the “Tower of Is Boletin”.

The solemn oath, the new chairman of Leposavic, Lulzim Hetemi, will be made in the village of Bistrica, at the object of primary school “Kadri Bistrica”.

Zubin Potok's new chairman, Izmir Zeqiri, will take the solemn oath in the village of Caber of this municipality, at the site of the municipal office for communities.

While the North Mitrovica municipality has its own object, in three other municipalities so far, municipal facilities have worked in Kosovo's system, but also the so-called temporary organs, which work according to Serbia's system.

On the other hand, only Zubin Potoku has the municipal assembly functional, while the other two municipalities -- Leposaviqi and Zvecan -- still do not have them functional. However, the constitutionalisation of municipal assemblies will take place in the same objects in which the oath ceremony will take place.

Mayors of municipalities cannot perform the oath without the functioning of municipal assemblies, before which they solemnly take office. The prime minister did not clarify how development of the oath-making process will be possible.

Kurti also disclosed that in the Northern Mitrovica municipality, where Erden Attic, from the ranks of Vetevendosje Movement, four directors have been appointed.

“ [ There are] a Serb, a Bosniak, an Egyptian and an Albanian of them two women, and this is progress that should normalise”, Kurti said yesterday.

The elections in the four municipalities in northern Kosovo -- inhabited by Serb majority -- northern Mitrovica, Zvecan, Leposaviq and Zubin Potok -- were held after preliminary leaders from the largest Serbian party in Kosovo, the Serbian List -- resigned last November.

Members of the Serb community widely boycotted the April elections and said they do not accept the results, young leaders from the Albanian community respectively.

Kurti said Serbian citizens have been commissioned by Belgrade officially not to go to the polls, but stressed that the Government of Kosovo aims to functionalise institutions and work in these municipalities, in order to ensure public services for all citizens.

This is not a choice, it is a must. We engage in this by defending human rights, civil liberties, rule of law, political pluralism, peace and security in the country, because all of these are normal in democracy, and in Republic”, Kurti said.

Serbian Lisa has contested the new mayors in the north.

Following the oath of the new chairman of northern Mitrovica, the deputy chairman of the list, Igor Sim enemies, has said that this “officially began the invasion of the north and will be completed when Serbs decide”.

The enemy has given Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti the deadline, until 1 June to stop “from depression, expropriation, arrest, persecution and attacks on Serbs”.

He added that if this continues, “the Serbian people's response will follow on June 1st, they will defend themselves with all means”, Sim enemies said, not citing what these means are.

On May 18th, US Ambassador to Kosovo Jeffrey Havenier has said that the force should not be used to gain access to municipal buildings in northern Kosovo.

The elections for the mayors of four municipalities in northern Kosovo were held on April 23rd, after the Serbian List left Kosovo institutions in disappointment with the Kosovo Government's decision to reregister the vehicles carrying illegal license plates issued by Serbia, on legal RKS HR plates.