Three Vetëvendosje party MPs threw eggs yesterday to Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa as the head of government was briefing the Parliament on the last month's Serbia-Kosovo agreement for the establishment of an autonomous council made up of Serb-majority municipalities.

PM's security service members shielded him with an umbrella and took him out of the session. Parliament Speaker Kadri Veseli suspended the plenary, and shouted "shame, shame, shame" to egg launchers.

Vetëvendosje head of parliamentary group Glauk Konjofca explained that the action wanted to draw attention to the "damage" that Mustafa is doing on Kosovo. The agreement with Serbia, Konjofca said, "will split Kosovo into two halves."

Under EU auspices, the governments of Kosovo and Serbia last month sealed an agreement that provides for the creation of the Association of Serbian Municipalities in Kosovo, which will be vested with partial and, as of today, ambiguous autonomy. The Assembly will bring together ethnic Serb majority municipalities in Kosovo.

The issue has sparked a huge and bitter discussion in Kosovo over the exact nature of the Association of Serbian Municipalities. Both parties making up the government of Kosovo (LDK and PDK) say the Association is simply a grouping of local entities without executive powers. "An NGO," as it has been defined Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi.

But main opposition party Vetëvendosje sees it quite differently. Vetëvendosje believes the Association of Serbian Municipalities will be a sort of de facto Republika Srpska, and that Kosovo will have two parallel systems in education, health, justice, law and energy. Vetëvendosje also opposes the fact that the Association of Serbian Municipalities can receive direct funds from the Serbian government, which in the party's opinion is a violation of Kosovo's sovereignty.

(Image: Mustafa tries to protect himself as an egg falls near him / photo: RTK screenshot.)