User:Dusan3/North Kosovo mitrovica

[1] North Kosovska Mitrovica is a northern part of the city of Kosovska Mitrovica which river Ibar devides from the rest of the city. It makes 1/5 of entire Kosovo Mitrovica and has a population over 20 thousand people of whom 17 thousand are Serbians, 2 thousand Albanians and thousand other minorities.

[2] North Kosovo Mitrovica currently represents one of the most important political, educational and health centers for Serbians in Kosovo. It is the only urban area in province where Serbs makes majority. In the city is located the University of Pristina which is under war circumstances relocated from Pristina to Mitrovica and which is the only Univeristy where Serbs and other speaking Slavic people are able to attend the schooling in Kosovo. Also there is Clinical Center as the significance health institutions for Serbs in Kosovo.

[3] There is begun to be seen a future status for North Kosovska Mitrovica as a separate municipality which would be administratively divided from the South Mitrovica and which would have its own mayor and local government. This alternative is come to be supported by the International Community and Albanian politicians while Serbs still considering this option.

[1]www.osce.org/item/1191.html [2]www.kosovo.net/mitrovica_divided.html [3]www.wiltonpark.org.uk/documents/conferences/...1/.../WPS06-1.pdf