Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric says to Belgrade based daily Politika that the Serbian Management team will fulfil its obligations regarding the proposal of the Statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) and that this document will be presented to the mixed committee in Brussels, Serbian media reports.

The Management Team for the establishment of the Association/Community of Serbian Municipalities, performs its task of preparation of the Statute of the ZSO in
line with its mandate, entrusted through the Brussels agreements and the draft text will be presented, as it was foreseen, in Brussels, to the implementation boards of Belgrade and Pristina, and then within the high-level dialogue, press release of the Management Team reads.

According to the deadline set by the European Union, the Draft Statute should be presented in Brussels on 4 August, but a new meeting of technical teams at the EU headquarters has not yet been scheduled, or the continuation of dialogue at the highest political level, Vecernje Novosti writes today.

Members of the Management Team for establishment of Association/Community of Serb-Majority Municipalities met today with representatives of the education system and discussed ways how this area should be treated within ZSO draft Statute, Radio kontakt plus reported.

The Management team for the establishment of the Community/Association of Serb municipalities (ZSO) met today with the Minister of Local Government Administration in the Kosovo government, Ivan Todosijevic, and informed him about the current work on the draft of the ZSO Statute, reports Radio Television of Serbia.

The management team for the establishment of the Community/Association of Serb Municipalities met directors of the largest business entities from the north of Kosovo and the Dean of the Faculty of Economics at Pristina University with a temporary headquarters in North Mitrovica on creating conditions for a more dynamic development of Serb-majority municipalities, reported Serbian media.

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.

Members of Management Team for establishing Association/Community of Serb-Majority Municipalities met in Mitrovica North with OSCE Head of Mission, Jan Braathu, Vecernje Novosti reports today.

Coordinator of the Management Team, Vinka Radosavljevic informed Ambassador Braathu on current activities, adding that the Management Team established cooperation with a group of legal professionals, delegated by northern municipalities and Law Faculty of the Pristina University, currently located in Mitrovica North.