Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Chairperson Milovan Drecun thinks taxes on goods from central Serbia will be abolished, Tanjug news agency reported.
Drecun added that Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj now tries to act in line with USA wishes, but at the same time “avoid the embarrassment.”
Institute for European Studies Professor, Slobodan Zecevic told RTS Germany is interested that Serbia joins the EU, but also to resolve the Kosovo issue, since Serbia cannot enter the EU with unresolved relations with Albanians.
He also assessed that Pristina by refusing to lift taxes, despite requests from USA and EU, became some sort of “fugitive” in relation to the international law and international relations.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos said the statement of Ramush Haradinaj that Pristina will not lift taxes on goods from Serbia is bad news and bad signal not only for Serbia but for the entire region as well.
He repeated the plea for taxes to be revoked, adding there is nothing to talk about as long as taxes remain in force.
Secretary General of the Serbian Foreign Affairs Ministry, Veljko Odalovic told Danas daily it is very important that members of the KLA command structure are invited to the Hague, adding he expects that the first indictments for the crimes against Serbs would “soon be shaped and presented.”
“We have gathered and submitted many evidences related to the direct link of people from the command structure with the committed crimes,” Odalovic said.
Aleksandar Vucic has rejected Ramush Haradinaj's claim that EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is to blame for the current state of the dialogue.
The Serbian President, who was in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday when he was asked to comment on Haradinaj's statement that Mogerini is to blame for the collapse of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, responded that he disagreed, adding that only Belgrade and Pristina could be blamed for this.
Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj claims that Kosovo can boast of respecting human rights of each community. Also, Haradinaj said, Kosovo has a tendency to be "a real champion" in their protection and promotion.
Shortly afterwards, Serbian Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric reacted, saying that on International Human Rights Day, the so-called Kosovo is a "black hole" where basic human rights of Serbs, (ethnic) Albanians and other communities in the field of economy, politics, free flow of people, goods and capital are not in force.
Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director, Marko Djuric urged the international community to react and do something regarding Pristina’s acts “before it is too late,” Danas daily reports.
“What Pristina is doing is a one-way ticket for the catastrophe of the both, Albanians and Serbs, and it is necessary that someone from the international community finally does something before it is too late,” Djuric told RTS commenting on the statement of Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on possible new measures against Serbia.
Serbian Minister of Defence, Aleksandar Vulin, reacting to a statement Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj made earlier that Kosovo army is not formed for the north but “for Afghanistan and Iraq,” said that Albanians from Kosovo are already in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and elsewhere where Al Qaida and ISIS are.
“If Haradinaj wants to send Albanians from Kosovo to Iraq and Afghanistan, he needs no army for that,” Vulin said, adding that based on the number of inhabitants, Kosovo has the highest number of foreign fighters joining ISIS, than any other nation.
Commenting on Ramush Haradinaj's op-ed in the Washington Post, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said the text was written by someone else because "pen is not his weapon."
The Kosovo prime minister wrote the article published in the US daily, where he presented a series of accusations against Serbia, and claimed that the Serbian President, with Russia's support, was offering Kosovo independence in exchange for a part of its territory.
Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Veljko Odalovic says that Serbia will not leave its people in Kosovo and Metohija. Odalovic also added that Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj "can only be made to see reason by the EU and the US."
Odalovic told RTS that it is "most important that Brussels should be the one to explain to Pristina that things they are doing can cause serious problems."