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Ready-Made Traps: Albanian War Criminal and UNMIK Bureaucrat Choose Who Will Represent Kosovo Serbs

According to Tanjug, Serbian National Council President Milan Ivanovic on Monday criticized the way meeting of representatives of Kosovo Serbs with the mediating troika of the Contact Group was organized within the new negotiations on the status of this province.

In a statement to Tanjug, Ivanovic stressed Sunday meeting in Pristina was not attended by any relevant and credible representatives of the Serbian people of this province, “with the exception of the presidents of the Serbian municipalities.”

“There were no representatives of the [ruling Democratic Party of Serbia] DSS, which won the largest support of the voters at the latest elections in the province, there were also no representatives of the [Radical Party] SRS, the [Socialist party] SPS, or even representatives of the [liberal] G17 Plus, or representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church,” he said.

This will have consequences for the Serbian negotiating position, Ivanovic said. The Serbian diplomacy and the Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija must ensure such things are not repeated and that legitimate representatives of Kosovo Serbs should confer with the mediating troika in the future, he said.

The stage-managers of Sunday meeting, according to Ivanovic, were UNMIK deputy chief Steven Schook (former NATO general), provisional “prime minister” of the Serbian province, Albanian war criminal Agim Ceku, and “certain persons from the EU Pristina Office.”

Representatives of the EU, the United States and Russia, Wolfgang Ischinger, Frank Wiesner and Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, conferred in Pristina on Sunday with Ceku-Schook handpicked “representatives” Oliver Ivanovic of the “Serb List”, Goran Bogdanovic, Vesna Jovanovic, and Randjel Nojkic.

The meeting was also attended by the only Serbian minister in the provincial interim government, Branislav Grbic, the heads of the municipalities of Zvecan and Zubin Potok, Dragisa Milovic and Slavisa Ristic, and the president of the Advisory Body for Kosovska Mitrovica, Srboljub Milenkovic.

Cartoon by Nikola Otas (Serbia)