After the crisis in the North of Kosovo and the open invitation received from representatives of the international community that it is necessary to hold new elections, the Serbian List announced that it is ready to participate in them, but only when two conditions are met.
"The special forces of the Kosovo police should be withdrawn from the north of Kosovo and the Association of Serbian Municipalities should be formed," Serbian List vice-president Igor Simić told Radio Free Europe.
The Serbian List boycotted the extraordinary local elections that were held on April 23 in four municipalities in the north of Kosovo, and it does not even recognize the new mayors because 3,4 percent of the voters went to the elections.
The crisis in the North of Kosovo has been going on for 11 days. Speaking about tensions, Simic said that the key to reducing tensions is the withdrawal of Kosovo Police special forces and newly elected mayors from municipal buildings.
Even today, Serbs gathered near the local self-government buildings in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, where they were prevented from working since the special forces of the Kosovo police occupied those buildings.
KFOR members partially removed the barbed wire in front of the Zvečan Municipality building, but the metal fence was not removed.
This morning, the young graduates read a proclamation in which they ask for a normal childhood. Kfor is still located at all approaches to Zvečan.
Kosovo Serbs demand that the Albanian mayors who were elected in the extraordinary local elections in April in the north of Kosovo, do not come to the municipal buildings.
During the protests in the previous week, there were incidents and violence in Zvečan on two occasions.
First, on May 26, the Kosovo police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the citizens gathered in front of the municipal building.
Demonstrators threw stones at the police and set several cars on fire.
Three days later during the intervention of KFOR soldiers after local Serbs disobeyed requests to disperse in front of the municipal building, there were injuries on both sides.
Among the demands, Igor Simić stated that it is necessary to release two citizens of Zvečan who have been in custody for a month.
Radoš Petrović and Dušan Obrenović were arrested during the conflict of Serbs with KFOR and the police in Zvečan on May 29, and they are accused of, among other things, "destroying the constitutional order of Kosovo".
The head of the OSCE Mission in Pristina, Michael Davenport, said today that without the participation of Serbs in the temporary Pristina institutions, such as the police, judiciary, and municipal administrations, "the sense of normality in everyday life will not return."
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