North Kosovo: Signs in Albanian and Serbian, without Cyrillic

The names of places are written on them in two languages ​​- first in Albanian, then in Serbian. The service of the Ministry of Infrastructure is assisted by the Kosovo Police of the North region, it was confirmed for KoSSev.

Workers in marked yellow suits remove the boards on which the names of the places were written in Cyrillic, and then in Latin in the Serbian language.

The Kosovo Police provides these teams that move from Rudar to Jarinje, removing the existing signs in front of the places they come across. In addition to the workers in yellow suits, a police jeep and a civilian vehicle can be seen following them from place to place.

It is not known when they will arrive in Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvečan.

Albanian leadership in the North and language change

Serbian and Albanian languages ​​are official languages ​​in Kosovo and as such, their use is symmetrical, the Constitution of Kosovo provides in Article 5.

With the change in the ethnic structure of the municipal leaderships in the North, at the very beginning of the mandate of the new mayors, the boards displayed in the municipalities themselves were changed, emphasizing first the Albanian in an accented font, and then the Serbian in the Latin script, as well as the English in the Latin script, in a non-accented font.

Also, Kosovo is written in Serbian as "Kosova" - "Republic of Kosovo".

Deputy Kosovo Ombudsman Srđan Sentić assessed for "KoSSev" that signs with inscriptions at the central level must be the same or similar, as for example highlighted at the Institution of the Ombudsman or the Constitutional Court, while the signs at the local level should reflect the population.