Another Kosovo Post office opens in Leposavic

Kosovo authorities have opened the fourth office of the Kosovo Post in Leposaviq, a municipality in northern Kosovo, inhabited by a Serb majority.

The opening of this office, which is the second to be opened in the center of Leposaviq, was also attended by the acting Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and the acting Minister of Economy, Artane Rizvanolli.

"This is a kind of duality of legality and quality. Those unlicensed operators that operated earlier have been closed and now we have the Kosovo Post, where in addition to regular postal deliveries, financial means in euros can also be accepted for the citizens of Leposaviq," Kurti said.

The Kosovo Post said that in the four northern municipalities – North Mitrovica, Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposavic – this institution now has thirteen points. Most of the points – 11 of them – according to the Post, have been opened only in the last two years.

However, one of the Kosovo Post offices in Zveçan was attacked with two hand grenades on April 1. The attack occurred a few days after the office had opened.

The attack was condemned by officials in Kosovo and Germany. Kurti described the attack as “an attempt to undermine security and hinder the integration of citizens into the legal and institutional system of the Republic of Kosovo.”

Attacks in northern Kosovo were also recorded last year, as Kosovo institutions have taken a series of steps to, as they have said, extend sovereignty to this part of the country.

This includes the closure of provisional municipal bodies – which operated under the Serbian system – and their public enterprises. Also closed were the Post of Serbia in the north, the Postal Savings Bank, the Treasury of the National Bank, the Directorate of the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund, the Administrative District of Mitrovica in Kosovo, and others.

In the north, the use of the Serbian dinar for making payments has also been banned. Serbia has financed parallel structures in the north and supported Serbs there through pensions and other benefits in dinars.

The United States and the European Union have opposed many of Pristina's actions in northern Kosovo, describing them as uncoordinated actions./ REL (A2 Televizion)