A huge majority of Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo is not ready to work together and live in the same streets, and almost no one is willing to enter into an inter-ethnic marriage, shows the latest public opinion poll in Kosovo carried out by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

About 43 percent of Serbs would agree to work with Albanians. About 31 percent of Serbs would accept to live in the same city with Albanians, and 20 percent of them would live in the same street with Albanians. As far as inter-ethnic marriages are concerned, none of the Serbs who took part in the survey expressed readiness to enter into a marriage with a member of the Albanian community, reads the UNDP report for the period between November 2010 - June 2011.

The survey showed similar results among Kosovo Albanians: about 41.5 percent of them would agree to work with Serbs, 43 percent would agree to live in the same city with Serbs, while 37 percent would live in the same street with them. Only 1.5 percent of the Kosovo Albanians would enter into a marriage with Kosovo Serbs, the report reads.

The public opinion poll comprised 1580 citizens older than 18, both sexes, all ages and from all parts of Kosovo.
The poll included 827 Albanians, 528 Serbs and 225 minority members (Turks, Bosniaks, Gorani, Roma, Ashkali, Egyptians).

The research was carried out by Encompass from Pristina during May and June 2011, the UNDP report said.

When it comes to the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue under the EU auspices in Brussels, only a fourth of the subjects see these talks as useful for Kosovo, while 20 percent find the dialogue harmful.

A quarter of the subjects find the dialogue neither harmful, nor useful, while only three percent of the subjects believe that the dialogue is very useful for Kosovo.