Protest in Northern Mitrovica

09/09/2011 12:35

Dozens of employees from the Energetic Company “Elektrokosmet” in
Northern Mitrovica protested on the bridge of the Iber River against the
extension of the Kosovo authority in its entire territory.

The protesters started marching from the company building to the bridge where they stopped for several minutes. They held Serbian flags and banners “We are not parallel institutions”, “Kosovo is Serbia”, and other extremist banners against Prishtina’s authorities. After staying for 10 minutes in the bridge of Iber, the protesters returned in the building of the Energetic Company.

The illegal function of this company has caused a loss of millions of Euros to the Kosovo budget. “Eletrokosmet” has even collected the bills for the energy that the northern residents take from the Kosovo Energetic Corporation.

EULEX to return Customs agents in N. Kosovo

The EULEX mission is discussing the possibility of returning Customs agents in Northern Kosovo border checkpoints.

The news comes from the spokesperson of the EU Mission for law and order, Nicolas Hauton.

“We are cooperating with Kosovo institutions to take under control the two border checkpoints. The concrete details are being reviewed”, Hauton declared.

The spokesperson made a declaration after a meeting with the Kosovo Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, saying that on September will start the implementation of the agreement for Kosovo Stamps with Serbia.

Prime Minister Thaçi announced that the border checkpoints 1 and 31 will have Kosovo agents and leaders.

Customs Stamp pact in act from September 16

The Prime Minister Hashim Thaci declared during his cabinet meeting that Serbia has recognized Kosovo’s independence through this agreement.

“The implementation of the agreement will start by September 16th, and everyone will comply to the new rules that will be applied”, Thaci declared.

He underlined that all northern citizens will be informed for the new rules for the movement of goods and people.

“Everyone will comply with the new rules, which define the border between Kosovo and Serbia”, Thaci underlined.

The Prime Minister declared that his government is working for repairing the damaged border checkpoints in north.

The agreement between Kosovo and Serbia for the Customs stamp was achieved in the second round of the dialogue, on September 2nd, under the mediation of EU.

For guaranteeing the reaching of an agreement, the envoy of Catherine Ashton, Robert Cooper attended visits in Kosovo and Serbia before this date.

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