Decision on Serb participation "next week"

Decision on Serb participation "next week"

BELGRADE -- The Government's Office for Kosovo has announced that its Director Marko Djuric, Serbs from Kosovo and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will meet next week.

Djuric spoke on Thursday, after a meeting in Belgrade held in the government building with Serb representatives in the Kosovo government.

According to him, a new meeting will be held after the talks in Brussels, scheduled for February 9, and will discuss "further steps on participation of Serbs in Kosovo's institutions."

He pointed out that Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa's decision to sack Minister of Returns and Communities Aleksandar Jablanovic "worsened the situation ahead of the upcoming talks between Belgrade and Pristina."

As he said, the government of Serbia "does not accept that Jablanovi? is to blame," pointing out that he did not refer to all Albanians or Albanian politicians as savages, but only to those who threw stones at Serb IDPs who were, on Christmas, attempting to visit Djakovica.

According to Djuric, the Serb community is not "a subject of instability" in Kosovo and Metohija.

Today's meeting in Belgrade was attended by Jablanovic, Branimir Stojanovic, Ljubomir Maric and Bratislav Nikolic.

The Civil Initiative Srpska (Serb) has nine deputies in the assembly of Kosovo, and two ministers and one deputy prime minister in the government.