The Kosovo papers report that during a meeting of the town’s Security Committee, Mitrovica Mayor, Bajram Rexhepi, said that international peacekeepers and law enforcement authorities must increase control in northern Kosovo in order to avoid risks.

 

Rexhepi said the recent placing of a Serbian flag on Mount Sokol and the removal of two reeds from a martyr’s grave were provocations against the Albanian population in the northern part of Mitrovica.

 

He also added that the placing of the flag could provoke a reaction from the local residents who in turn could take the situation into their own hands. He called on KFOR to remove the Serbian flag.

Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic on Monday told news agency, FoNet, that the formation of the Serbian assembly in Kosovo will be another failed political project.

The 'assembly is to set up in northern Kosovo, Mitrovica.

“It won’t get the support of the main political parties from the Serbian Assembly. It will remain a project of the Serbian Democratic Party and the Radical Serbian Party, which are thinking about how to hinder the next government which is trying to find the best possible solution for Kosovo,” Ivanovic is quoted as saying.