The European Union has said Pristina’s decision to raise import taxes on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in response to what it feels is Serbia’s destructive behaviour, was unexpected and the bloc has demanded an immediate explanation of the move, media reported on Wednesday.
The 10 percent higher import taxes were imposed on milk and milk products, water, biscuits, construction materials and fruit juices.
Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, commenting on Kosovo's withdrawal from the Brussels Dialogue, says that Pristina did not act independently, but with the tacit consent of Western partners.
"Where does this lead to? To not treat the dialogue seriously and to not form the Community of Serb Municipalities. Then it should be said," Stefanovic told in a press conference in the Palace of Serbia.
Daily newspaper Blic writes that the Kosovo government has officially announced that the process of forming the Community/Association of Serb municipalities (ZSO), even the EU that the drafting of the Statute has begun, and representatives of the Serbs claim that none of this has been done.
Serbian Minister of Justice Nela Kuburovic told TV station Prva that there is no new information on the investigation of Ivanovic’s murder, reports N1.
“Although the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime responded to almost all requests/inquiries that were sent by Pristina authorities, five until now, on the other hand, we did not have such reciprocity when it comes to the cooperation” Kuburovic says.
Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director, Marko Djuric told Politika daily that Pristina did not submit any information related to the murder of a leader of Civic Initiative, Freedom, Democracy, Justice, Oliver Ivanovic.
Djuric said he would like to see, instead of pointing fingers that Pristina institutions offer at least one concrete and relevant response and approach the cooperation, Serbian media reported.
Serbian Justice Minister, Nela Kuburovic told RTS that Serbia did not yet receive minutes on the investigation of the crime scene, where Oliver Ivanovic was murdered.
According to her, there are no developments in Ivanovic murder probe.
“There is nothing for now, we did not receive notification. Although they responded to our request, saying that we would urgently receive, if nothing more, then at least minutes from the crime scene investigation, this has not arrived yet,” Kuburovic said in Uptinik broadcast on RTS.