Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo have built roadblocks and their politicians have left the country’s coalition government in protest at the expulsion of a senior Belgrade official. “As representatives of the Serbian people in Kosovo, we will no longer keep quiet,” said Goran Rakic, the head of Serbian List. Community of municipalitiesHe announced his party’s withdrawal from the government of Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj, and said that next month Kosovo Serbs would form a so-called community of Serb municipalities without Pristina’s permission. In Pristina, Mr Haradinaj insisted that he would not resign, despite losing his parliamentary majority with the departure of Serbian List. “It is time for dialogue and to sit at the negotiation table,” added Mr Haradinaj, who was a rebel commander in 1998-1999 fighting with Serbian forces.

Source: The Irish Times March 27, 2018 18:56 UTC