Decentralisation – New Serb Municipalities
Publisher: Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (KFOS)
Volume: 88 pages, pdf
Description
After introducing the international protectorate in 1999, which marked the end of the war and of inter-community tensions between the Kosovo Albanians and Serbs lasting for many decades, the period of institutional transition has started in Kosovo. Nine years later, mostly in line with the recommendations of the Kosovo Plan by the former Finnish President, Martti Ahtisaari, majority Albanian institutions in Prishtina declared their independence from Belgrade. Although there were some ten Serbian MPs in the Parliament then, they did not participate in the session when independence was declared, which could be interpreted as a beginning of a new, inter-ethnic institutional crisis.