Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Boycotting Kosovo Serb Police Given Deadline
Pristina | 16 April 2009 |
Kosovo’s minister of interior Zenun Pajaziti (middle) and police officials
The announcement was made by Minister of Internal Affairs Zenun Pajaziti at a meeting with the European Union’s rule-of-law mission, EULEX.
The decision follows the conclusion of a working group, including local and EULEX representatives, which has been looking at how to solve the issue of the suspended Serb officers.
Based on recommendations from the working group, Kosovo’s government has set a deadline of June 30 for all suspended officers to return to work.
“As of today we should intensify our efforts to encourage all the police officers who left to return to the Kosovo Police,” said Pajaziti.
Yves de Kermabon, head of the EU mission, said he supported the government’s decision and underlined the need for approaching this issue in a “friendly manner”.
Some 300 Serb police officers boycotted work in protest against Kosovo’s declaration of independence in February 17, 2008. Only a handful have returned to work since.
The deadline emerged at the joint rule-of-law coordination board, held on Wednesday at the new EULEX headquarters in Pristina.
De Kermabon said that EULEX still had a lot of work to be done, despite the initial positive achievements. “EULEX and local authorities face new challenges to improve the rule of law area,” said de Kermabon in his opening remarks.
(Reporting by Lawrence Marzouk)
2009-04-16 23:07:40