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Vucic and Mustafa about area code and energy (Danas)

In Brussels today would continue the political negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina.

Unofficially, the theme of today's dialogue at the "prime-minister level" should be Telecommunications - assignment of a new area code for Kosovo, energy, including the fate of the hydroelectric system Gazivode and substation Valac, as well as the opening of negotiations on the community Serbian municipalities.

In addition to being part of the Brussels Treaty, these topics are also on the list of German conditions for opening negotiations on Chapter 35 between Serbia and the EU. Berlin, who was among the first countries to recognize Kosovo's self-declared independence, requested area code for Kosovo, to which Belgrade has agreed in principle, while Pristina has insisted that area code does not go over Serbia which was violation of international law. Germany also requires surrender of Gazivode and Valac to Pristina, without which the Kosovo economy cannot function independently.

Regarding the formation of the Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO), the problem was in the interpretation of the Brussels Treaty, signed two years ago. Germany supports the view of Pristina that ZSO should work in accordance with the existing Kosovo legislation. Belgrade argues that "the laws of Kosovo" implied and a new regulation, which Pristina should bring in accordance with the statute of the ZSO.

After the last meeting, at which the negotiating debut had new chief negotiators - Mogherini, Vucic, and Mustafa, ended with the agreement on the judiciary. Political circles in Kosovo have opened the question of the eventual integration of the Serbian part of the University of Pristina, which in 1999 relocated to the northern part of Mitrovica, into the Kosovo's education system. Between the two rounds of political dialogue, Pristina announced a competition for prosecutors and judges - "representatives of the non-majority communities", and in technical dialogue, an agreement was reached about the dissolution of the Serbian Civil Protection in northern Kosovo.