“Proponents of referendum must take responsibility”

Source: Beta

BELGRADE -- Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović says that “proponents” of the referendum in northern Kosovo will have to take responsibility for the consequences.

Goran Bogdanović

“It is incomprehensible that representatives of the local self-governments in the north of the province are ignoring requests of their government and think that they can do more than the state,” he pointed out.
The minister added that some representatives of the local self-governments were putting their party interests above the interests of the citizens and the need to solve everyday issues.

“Arguments for the referendum, which are presented by local self-government representatives, come from their parties,” he stressed.

Bogdanović said that the local representatives were putting the state and the citizens in Kosovo in a delicate position by holding the referendum in northern Kosovo.

“Representatives of the local self-governments in northern Kosovo are entitled to their own position on the referendum but such position is harmful when the state policy is concerned,” he explained.

According to him, the local self-governments’ decisions must not make it even more difficult for the state to solve the Kosovo issue.