Mufti: Regime creating new Kosovo

19 December 2010 | 11:32 | Source: Beta, Dnevnik

NOVI SAD -- Islamic Community in Serbia Chief Mufti Muamer Zukorlić says that Belgrade regime could make a “new Kosovo” out of Sandžak thanks to its ignorant behavior. He repeated the accusations against Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Dimitrios Kypreos, pointing out that he had been partial during the affair regarding the Bosniak National Council elections. Muamer Zukorlić (Tanjug, file) He said that it was very hard to establish stability if the government did not believe them. “And there is a much greater chance that Sandžak will become new Kosovo with this behavior. Everything is the same as Milošević did in Kosovo,” he told Novi Sad-based daily Dnevnik. He stressed that the Bosniak Cultural Community (BKZ), that he led in the elections for the Bosniak National Council, had expanded its requests from cultural-educational autonomy to full autonomy of Sandžak because of the behavior of the Belgrade authorities. He also added that the autonomy had both historical and constitutional stronghold. “We’re only asking a gradual authority solely within the Constitution, because I’ll remind you that Serbia’s highest legal act envisages possibility to establish new autonomies,” Zukorlić explained. He pointed out that he had decided to turn to international institutions and the public because the Serbian authorities were not allowing him to solve the problems in domestic institutions and in accordance with the existing laws................more see: http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=12&dd=19&nav_id=71612