North Mitrovica municipality requests “liquidation” of its object

As a cause for this decision, some “certain works envisioned that the municipality will conduct in specific municipal objects” are mentioned.

“We, like the North Mitrovica municipality, have expressed readiness that any institution that offers services in the interest of Kosovo citizens, to offer support and work space”, reportedly in the statement the municipality gave to Free Europe Radio.

Similarly, the Serbian List ʹ the largest party of Kosovo Serbs to have the backing of official Belgrade said local leadership in northern Mitrovica has made a decision that, for three days, “distance the employees of Serbian institutions from the building in the Bosnjak Quarter.

According to the Serbian List, four institutions are located in this facility, which are funded by means of the Government of Serbia: The Office for Kosovo, the Directorate of Pension Security and Invalidore, the Administrative District of Kosovo and the Centre for Social Affairs from Vushtrria.

Most of Serbia's institutions operating in Kosovo are run by Serbian List officials.

For example, the director of the Pension Security and Invalidor Fund in northern Mitrovica is Milan Radojevic.

He, earlier, has been chairman of northern Mitrovica [Kosovo municipality], but also deputy minister of Kosovo's Internal Affairs.

The head of the Kosovo Mitrovica Administrative District is Vucinina Jankovic, also from the Serbian List. He, earlier, was head of the Zvecan municipality under the Kosovo system.

In a communiqué sent to the media, the Serbian List said “the leaders of non-legitism” As it refers to Albanian mayors of the Serb majority municipalities in the north, they have gone “a step further” and “wanted to take away”.

On the other hand, from the North Mitrovica municipality, they said their officials have received the Serbian List deputy chairman Igor Simi, who has told them that “has no document for the” object and that “does not know whose ownership is”.

In the four majority Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo, northern Mitrovica, Leposaviq, Zvecan and Zubin Potok ? Albanian leaders took power in late May, while municipal buildings have entered with police assistance.

They have strongly opposed the local Serb population, which has boycotted the April elections, from which those mayors have emerged.

Locals have been protesting in front of municipal objects in Leposaviq, Zvecan and Zubin Potok for nearly three months, urging Kosovo police to withdraw and Albanian leaders not to get to work.

In these three municipalities, by the end of May, even municipalities according to the Serbian system have worked.

In northern Mitrovica alone, there is a special municipal building operating under the Kosovo system, and there has been no protests.