Kosovo Serbs in protest walk over ban on voting in Serbia’s elections

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Serbs in Kosovo’s divided Mitrovica town gathered on Friday for a protest walk against Pristina’s ban on Serbia’s April 3 elections being held on Kosovo’s territory.

Deputy leader of the Serb List, the Belgrade-backed party, Dalibor Jevtic, said several days ago after meeting Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic, that the Serbs would organise peaceful protests on both sides of the Ibar River, dividing Mitrovica to the northern part, mainly populated by the local Serbs and the southern area where the Albanians created a majority.

Jevtic said the protest would be organised under the ‘No one should deprive us of fundamental human rights in the 21st-century’ slogan.

In the meantime, the media reported movement by Kosovo special police units towards the north, but the police official denied the news.

Kosovo’s Prime Minister said the protests would not contribute to good relations between Kosovo and Serbia, which the European Union aimed at.

Kurti said Serbia’s elections in Kosovo were not banned but that no agreement was reached about them. He reiterated that the demand for organising the elections should have been sent directly to Pristina’s Government and not via liaison officer.

However, Vucic said Kurti’s decision to ban the voting in Kosovo on April 3 aimed to humiliate the Serbs and reduce the number of votes for him and his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

He said Belgrade’s Government could not directly address Pristina’s authorities because that would have meant a de facto recognition of Kosovo’s independence.

Vucic said that the Kosovo Serbs would vote in the towns in Serbia, as they did earlier on the constitutional referendum.

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