European Parliament representatives appreciate the efforts Serbia is making on the EU accession path and believe that the first chapters could be opened by the end of the year, said Minister for EU Integrations Jadranka Joksimovic in Brussels.
Two buses that were transporting Serbs pupils were stopped in Gjilan/Gnjilane and excluded from the traffic, while the pupils were left on the road.
Assistant director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Sladjana Markovic has stated that the pupils, whose freedom of movement is already endangered, now have been deprived from their right to safety and education.
The inspection handed the decision on the exclusion from traffic to the bus drivers, written in the Albanian language.
Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, stated on Monday that people in Kosovo should not be misguided that Serbia will recognize the independence of its southern province.
“The process of normalization (of relations) is irreversible, and constant delusion about Serbia's recognition of the independence of KiM is a reflection of political immaturity and a worrying lack of focus on real problems in KiM - unemployment, corruption and bad international relations,” Djuric told Tanjug.
The Council of Europe has not given up on establishing truth about allegations of the CoE Parliamentary Assembly Rapporteur Dick Marty on trafficking in human organs in Kosovo, stated President of the CoE Parliamentary Assembly Anne Brasseur in Belgrade, where she gave a lecture on Council of Europe to students of the School of Political Sciences.
The announcement of the self-proclaimed Kosovo state’s head of diplomacy Hashim Thaci that Pristina is working on the preparations for the lawsuit against Serbia for genocide is in the realm of fantasy, and at issue is the case of Thaci and his peers from the so-called KLA avoiding the responsibility before the future Special Court of War Crimes in Kosovo, political analyst Djordje Vukadinovic has told the International Radio Serbia.
The decision on the participation of members of the Serbian list in Kosovo institutions will be made after consultations with Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic this wek, said Kosovo Deputy PM Branimir Stojanovic.
The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue resumed in Brussels on February 9, having been interrupted almost for a year because of numerous elections in Serbia, Kosovo and the EU respectively. Despite the turbulent atmosphere created in the past months, political analyst Dušan Janjić tells our radio that he does not expect any spectacular results or big changes. More by Andjelka Marisavljevic.
Serbian Deputy PM Zorana Mihajlović said that the Serbian government would want dialogue on the Trepča combine issue and on property in Kosovo to take place as soon as possible.