State Secretary for Kosovo and Metohija Oliver Ivanovic said Thursday following the publication of the results of the census conducted by the authorities in Pristina in the north of the province that there has been no census in northern Kosovo at all.

He added that the Kosovo Albanians tried to legalize ethnic cleansing by publishing census results. Ivanovic told TV Pink that there has been no census in the north of the province, since the attitude of the population is more than clear - it will not accept anything that comes from Pristina.

Following these results, according to which the province has nearly 1.8 million inhabitants, Ivanovic said that that figure included about ten thousand Serbs and 20,000 other non-Albanians, so that the number of Albanians themselves is under 1.7 million.