Serb National Council asks Eide to produce objective report

Serbian Press Agency SRNA, Bijeljina, 26-09-2005 14:25:32

Belgrade - The president of the Serb National Council of North Kosovo Milan Ivanovic said today that the Council sent a message to Kai Eide, the UN secretary-general's special envoy for standards assessment, asking him to persist in an objective realistic assessment of the situation despite the fact that he is being pressured to show that standards have been fulfilled in Kosovo and Metohija.

"We have asked that Eide urge UN organizations to ensure that the problem of Kosovo and Metohija be resolved in a proper manner, that comprehensive decentralization of government is implemented, that everyone can have basic human rights," said Ivanovic.

He emphasized that yesterday in Silovo at a joint meeting of the Serb National Councils of Kosovo and Metohija and of North Kosovo a decentralization plan was introduced which would be an essential, comprehensive and simultaneous everywhere in Kosovo where Serbs, Muslims and Goranis live.

"We have proposed the forming of 18 new municipalities where Serbs, Muslims and Goranis would comprise at least a 65 percent majority of the population," said Ivanovic, emphasizing that these municipalities would be interconnected and would at the same time form a region.

According to Ivanovic, the decentralization plan was harmonized completely with the Serbian government's plan for decentralization.

He said that at the same meeting the so-called Albanian pilot project on decentralization put forward by UNMIK and certain individual Serbs was rejected.