Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Local Administration Lutfi Haziri today met political representatives of Kosovo Serbs and other minority groups ahead of the next meeting of representatives of Pristina and Belgrade on Kosovo, to be held in Vienna on May 4/5.
Haziri said that all options regarding the establishment of the new municipalities had to be discussed in detail.
"A request was made to establish new municipalities with the majority Serb, Bosniak, Gorani and Turkish population. Nothing is final yet, we are analysing how much those municipalities would be economically sustainable and functional. I believe that we will present a concrete proposal soon," Haziri said.
Representatives of the Serb List for Kosovo said they wanted Pristina and Belgrade to be familiar with their position on decentralisation so that the process could be organised in the best possible way.
The head of the Serb List for Kosovo, Oliver Ivanovic, said that decentralisation must not be politicised and that the size rather than the number of new municipalities was important. "They should be compact territorial entities with a clear Serb majority, which means not less than 70 percent of the population," Ivanovic said.