Dissatisfied with a draft agreement which representatives of Pristina and Belgrade initialled in Brussels on Friday, Kosovo Serbs announced a large protest for Monday, stressing they would never accept the establishment of Kosovo institutions in northern Kosovo.
At a news conference in Zvecan, one of the four Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo, deputy head of the government's office for Kosovo Krstimir Pantic said that Serb representatives never managed to get the text of the draft agreement from the Serbian government, but that they had an opportunity to look at the text released by the Albanian side which they assessed as "absolutely unacceptable."
Pantic said the proposal under which the police and the judiciary would function within the frameworks of Kosovo laws represented "Serbia's final withdrawal from this region."
He announced consultations with citizens concerning further steps, adding that they would "continue the fight" and that they would not allow "this agreement, just like all earlier agreements, to be implemented."
Pantic called on Kosovo Serbs to remain calm and courageous and invited Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic to visit Kosovo and Explan local Serbs what exactly had been signed in Brussels.
Delegations of Serbia and Kosovo, led by their respective prime ministers, met in Brussels on Friday for a tenth round of talks on the degree of autonomy for the Serb-majority municipalities in northern Kosovo and reached and initialled an agreement on normalising their relations.