Whose municipal building is North Mitrovica?

The municipal inspector claims that some of Serbia's institutions, which exploit this facility as a work space, have no right to do so and has demanded that the object be released by Friday.

The Serbian list, which enjoys official Belgrade's support, says Albanian authorities “wanted to take our spaces from”.

In this, the municipality answers: “are exploiting the object without documents”.

What do they say from the municipality?

On August 22nd, local authorities in North Mitrovica ʹ one of the four majority Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo delivered their subject to the Serbian List's deputy chairman, Igor Simuri, a report saying that Serbian institutions should release “in three days.

It says that no documents have been given to the inspectorate on which Serbia's institutions exploit the municipal object, although Serbian officials, reportedly, have been informed in advance that they must prepare and present documents for the exploitation of this facility.

The mayor's office told Free Europe Radio that the object in question is owned by the municipality and that those using it are obliged to show the documents for exploitation.

From the municipality, as well, they said that the enemies have received municipal officials and have told them that there is no document for the artifact that exploits Serbia's institutions and that I do not know whose ownership it is.

What does the Serbian List have to do with the controversial object?

The enemy has been a Serbian List official since its founding in 2013, while prior to that he has participated in Kosovo institutions.

But, almost all the time, he has held several functions even in Serbia's institutions. Currently, he is director of the Pension and Invasive Insurance Fund Directorate, which operates under the Serbian system. This very institution is located at the contestive facility in northern Mitrovica. The director of the Fund known in Serbia as Pio is Milan Radojevic, also from the Serbian List. Until November last year, Radojevic has also been chairman of the Northern Mitrovica municipality, which is operating under the Kosovo system.

Three other Serbian institutions are located in this building: The Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, the Centre for Social Work from Vushtrria and the Administrative District of Kosovo Mitrovica.

In addition to Sivoli and Radojevic, other Serbian List officials have positions in Serbia's institutions. For example, the chairman of this party, Goran Rakic, is director of the Public Company “Standard” and is also employed at the University of North Mitrovica, which operates under the Serbian system.

What do they say from the Serbian List?

The Serbian list said through a statement that employees of Serbia's institutions have been announced that they should release their jobs, the “s are removed from the facility within three days respectively.

This situation, it linked to the crisis in northern Kosovo, while the first man in North Mitrovica called Kurti “chairman of”.

After the international community's invitation for the illegal mayors to work from alternative locations, they went a step further and wanted to take away our” spaces, the Serbian List said.

Addressing the international community, she asked whether her appeal is being respected in this way for the “leaders to do administrative work only and not make political decisions against the citizens of our municipalities”.

North Mitrovica Mayor Erden Attic, who comes from the Vetevendosje Movement of Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti.

He won the April elections by about 550 votes, as the voting process was largely boycotted by the Serb community.

Property Disagreement

The controversial object, for which local Kosovo authorities and the Serbian List claim to be theirs, has been built in the pre-war period.

Law for the Kosovo agency for comparison and property verification regulates the issue of such objects.

This law was enacted in 2016, after which the Kosovo Agency for Comparing and Verification of Property, whose mandate, among other things, is to resolve property issues that have been with Serbia until June 1999.

The Serbian list has opposed this law and has demanded that the Constitutional Court declare it unconstitutional. However, that did not happen.

How do Serbia's institutions operate in Kosovo?

Serbia's institutions have continued to operate even after the end of the war in Kosovo in 1999, while those in the southern areas of Ibri have moved to areas where Serbs live.

For example, Serbian institutions that have been operating in Pristina before the war are now located in Gracanica -- one of the six municipalities south of Ibër.

They operate mainly in private items, which, meanwhile, have been renovated by Serbia, with its budget.

On the other hand, in the four municipalities in northern Kosovo, northern Mitrovica, Leposaviq, Zvecan and Zubin Potok, there are institutions of Serbia that work in the same objects they were in before 1999.

Kosovo and Serbia, for more than a decade, are in talks on normalising relations, under the European Union's mediation. But on the property issue, the parties have completely opposite positions and have not yet reached any agreement on it.