The Kosovo Prosecutorial Council, KPC, on Monday denied the requests of various Serb prosecutors to come to their posts, near to four years after Kosovo Serbs staged a mass resignation from Kosovo institutions in 2022.
Chief Impart Prosecutor Zejnullah Gashi urged the KPC assembly on Monday that while he supported prosecutors from the Serb neighborhood being portion of the machine, he had no longer had time but to familiarise himself with the topic.
“I stand by the distance … that colleagues from the Serb neighborhood will like to unexcited additionally be portion of the prosecutorial machine. Relating to this subject or field, I like to genuinely divulge that I became once no longer urged in time, as I even like excellent appropriate assumed the feature of Chief Prosecutor,” he acknowledged.
Media in Kosovo like reported that five prosecutors and 15 administrative workers members like asked to come.
KPC member Arlinda Muqa acknowledged the return of Serb prosecutors will like to unexcited no longer be handled as a political topic however exclusively as a right field.
“Kosovo has fulfilled all duties bobbing up from the agreements on the mixing of the judiciary and the prosecution service. It equipped them [Serbs] with the chance to turn into portion of the constitutional machine, having fun with all linked rights and educated ensures. In 2022, they selected to resign; this constitutes a internal most and right act, the implications of which are clearly outlined by law,” she acknowledged.
Yet one more KPC member, Visar Krasniqi, acknowledged: “As things stand, I’m in a position to no longer procure grounds to reinforce their return. I am contented that the failure to study their integrity is a critical field, and I originate no longer feel ready to vote in favour of their return until time unearths whether or no longer these contributors were fascinated by activities that our hold legislation does no longer recognise.”
Most Serbs in Kosovo’s four Serb-majority northern municipalities resigned on November 5, 2022, from their narrate posts, claiming that EU-mediated agreements between Serbia and Kosovo were being breached.
The resignations adopted a assembly within town of Zvecan organised by the Belgrade-backed fetch together representing Kosovo Serbs, Srpska Lista.
Srpska Lista acknowledged the mayors of the Serb-majority municipalities, councillors, MPs, judges, prosecutors, judicial workers and Kosovo Police officers had all quit their jobs. At some level of the assembly in Zvecan, Serb police officers symbolically took off their Kosovo police uniforms to applause from the participants.
The then chief of Srpska Lista, Goran Rakic, announcing the boycott of Kosovo’s institutions, acknowledged these decisions would live in pause until an Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities, as agreed within the EU-facilitated Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, became once established.
The transfer came two days after then regional director of the Kosovo Police for the Serb-majority north, Nenad Djuric, became once suspended after he claimed that police within the north would no longer put in pressure the authorities’s possibility to field reprimands to drivers of vehicles with licence plates issued by Serbia, which are notion of as unlawful by the Kosovo authorities.
Sources urged BIRN that the Kosovo Judicial Council has additionally obtained requests to come to work from various Serb judges. The actual quantity is no longer acknowledged.
After the 2022 boycott took pause, ethnic Albanians were elected as mayors within the north in unparalleled local elections in April 2023, on very low turnouts, after Serbs stayed a long way from the polls.
After these novel mayors took narrate of job, the safety tell within the north deteriorated. Clashes between protesters and NATO peacekeeping forces ended in around 93 NATO personnel being injured, with one having a leg amputated.
Kosovo authorities additionally shut down a series of so-known as “parallel” Serb institutions – companies trudge outdoor authorities help watch over – within the north of the country.
The European Union imposed some sanctions on Kosovo in June 2023 in step with the worsening safety tell. These measures were lifted in March 2026.
Serb mayors retook energy within the four Serb-majority municipalities in December 2025. At some level of the election campaign, Srpska Lista admitted it had made a mistake in urging Serbs to desert Kosovo institutions in 2022 – however acknowledged the likelihood had a minimal of attracted the eye of the international neighborhood.