U.N.: Fewer Kosovo Serbs Confident in Agreement on Normalization than Albanians

UNDP

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Kosovo announced on July 25 that only 10.9 percent of respondents in a survey fully believed in the Agreement on the path to normalization between Kosovo and Serbia, while 40.9 percent believed it would have a positive effect on people’s life.



According to the results of the Public Pulse survey, 52.9 percent of Kosovo Albanians and 51.6 percent of other communities in Kosovo have a positive opinion of the Agreement, as opposed to only 25.7 percent of the Serbs there.



The survey, conducted from Apr. 17 to May 7, gathered information about the people’s perception of the Agreement and of the social, economic, political and security issues. It was performed among more than 1300 respondents from all 38 municipalities, in urban and rural areas and among all ethnic communities in Kosovo.



A total of 83.2 percent of respondents said they felt safe from violence and crime in the street. Adjusted for ethnic background, the data showed that Kosovo Albanians (85.3 percent) and other communities (83.2 percent) feel safe in the street in greater numbers than the Serbs in Kosovo do (31.9 percent).