The election material sent to Kosovo, which the UNMIK had previously confiscated, was released yesterday. The UNMIK customs said yesterday that the election material, which included UV lamps, ballot boxes, spray bottles and partitions for polling stations, had no customs value and was therefore returned.

According to coordinator of the Electoral Commission, RIK, Veljko Odalovic, UNMIK confiscated some of the material for the elections schedules for May 11, South of Kosovska Mitrovica Thursday. The UNMIK customs officers stopped a car carrying the material en route Lipljan and Pec on the outskirts of Kosovska Mitrovica.

Odalovic said that “the Serbs in Kosovo have the legitimate right to organize and elect local organs of government and representatives to the Serbian parliament.”

Speaking before the material was released by UNMIK, Odalovic said the RIK will, despite all, create conditions for the voting to be carried out in 300 polling stations in the province. He also described the decision to make the seizure as “irrational”, because, there was no obstruction of distribution of election material in the previous elections Serbia organized in Kosovo.