Srpska Lista does not believe Pristina would establish ZSO (RTS)
One day prior to deadline to draft the Statue of the Association/Community of Serb-Majority Municipalities (ZSO), Srpska Lista does not believe Pristina would establish it, RTS reported. Management Team members stated draft statute would be ready within a given deadline and they remain ready, at any moment, at Brussels request to present the text to […]
Read More →Drecun: We do not accept Kosovo membership in UN in turn for ZSO (RTS, Radio Belgrade)
Serbia will not accept membership of a false state of Kosovo in UN in turn for Association/Community of Serb-Majority Municipalities, Chairperson of the Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun told Radio Belgrade. He repeated a stance that the only acceptable solution to Belgrade is the one reached in a compromise. What we […]
Read More →“European Charter values part of ZSO draft Statute” (KIM Radio, RTS, Radio kontakt plus)
Members of Management Team for establishing Association/Community of Serb-majority Municipalities met with Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Kilian Wahl, KIM Radio reported, adding that the Management Team said the values contained in the European Charter on Local Self-governance would be an integral part of ZSO draft Statute. Mutual satisfaction was expressed during […]
Read More →Management Team for ZSO establishment met with Todosijevic (KIM Radio)
Members of the Management Team for the establishment of Association/Community of Serb-Majority Municipalities met today in Mitrovica North with outgoing Minister of Local Self-governance and Administration, Ivan Todosijevic, KIM Radio reported. Interlocutors discussed the structure of the ZSO draft Statute and the content of that document. Members of the Management Team also informed Minister Todosijevic […]
Read More →Drecun: Management Team for ZSO Statute contrary to agreement (TV N1, Danas)
Chairperson of the Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun told TV N1, Serbs in Kosovo did not give up on ZSO, but decided to wait since Pristina made a political manoeuvre. Management Team for ZSO Statute Pristina is establishing is not in accordance with Brussels agreement, Drecun said, therefore the ZSO Statute would […]
Read More →Vucic and Mogherini “don’t agree on everything” (B92, BETA)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke on Thursday afternoon in Belgrade with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, who on a tour of the region. Vucic told a joint press conference that he talked with Mogherini about EU accession negotiations chapters, both those where Serbia has made progress, and those where the European Commission says no […]
Read More →Simic: Meeting with Management Team for drafting ZSO Statute today (RTS)
Kosovo MP from Srpska Lista, Igor Simic told RTS that all Serb political representatives would meet today in Zvecan with Management Team for drafting the ZSO Statute. Simic said he shares opinion of the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic that Pristina would not make steps necessary to establish the ZSO in the next three and a […]
Read More →Dacic: Kosovo cannot be topic of “foreign policy trade” (Tanjug, RTS, Danas)
Serbian Foreign Minister, Ivica Dacic said Serbia wishes to reach a compromised solution for Kosovo and Metohija, but this issue cannot be used in foreign policy trade as a condition to enter the EU, Tanjug news agency reported. Dacic made these remarks in a conference “Training of Political Leaders,” held in Belgrade, adding that dialogue […]
Read More →Marko Djuric: Community of Serb Municipalities will be funded from Belgrade (Serbian media)
Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director, Marko Djuric reacted today to media reports, referring to unnamed NATO sources’ statements on Association/Community of Serb-Majority Municipalities, its powers and ways of financing. Djuric’s statement in Serbian is available here: http://www.kim.gov.rs/v2447.php “Threatening tones and untruths of unnamed NATO representatives are the continuation of violence against Kosovo […]
Read More →Spanish Ambassador: EU should clearly support establishment of ZSO (Tanjug, RTS)
Serbia should insist on the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb-Majority Municipalities, and European institutions under whose auspices Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is held, should clearly support this legitimate request, Ambassador of Spain to Serbia, Miguel Fuertes Suarez told Tanjug news agency. “Spain supports dialogue in Brussels. It is logical that crucial element in this dialogue is […]
Read More →“They are lying, there are no experts on Kosovo side” (KIM Radio)
Pristina-based legal professional, Blerim Burjani said that the truth about drafting ZSO Statute is not in a decision of the Kosovo Constitutional Court but in a political compromise. Burjani made this remark referring to the announcements from Brussels and Pristina that remarks and conclusions of the Kosovo Constitutional Court should be a base for defining […]
Read More →Pristina “to draft ZSO statute within four months” (B92, Tanjug)
The EU has welcomed the Kosovo PM’s announcement on giving the mandate to the management team to draft the statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities, ZSO. Tanjug is reporting that the EU “gave Pristina a four-month time frame for the process.” Tanjug is reporting that the EU “gave Kosovo four months to draft Community […]
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