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Agreement on judiciary - "step closer to ZSO" (B92)

Implementation of the agreement on the judiciary means that Serb judges and prosecutors will now participate in the work of judicial institutions in Kosovo.

This significantly boosts the chances of proceedings being based on law, rather than ethnicity, says Milovan Drecun, chairman of the Serbian National Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija.

"This also means we are a step closer to forming the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO)," Drecun told state broadcaster RTS on Thursday.

"Greater Albania" behind flag (Večernje Novosti)

On the eve of the Albanian holiday, leaders of the five cities in the region in Tirana have founded the Union.

Tirana, Pristina, Preševo, Tetovo and Ulcinj formed the Union of Municipalities in the region a day before the Albanian flag, the day when Albania proclaimed the independence. Therefore, the move many interpret as the first step in the concrete action of creating a "Greater Albania".

"Pristina did try to change deal, Brussels stopped them" (B92, RTS)

Milovan Drecun confirmed on Friday that representatives of Pristina this week attempted to introduce changes to the agreement on telecommunications.

The agreement was reached in Brussels last Sunday, during the EU-sponsored Kosovo dialogue.

However, said Drecun (SNS) - who heads the Serbian National Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija - "Brussels made it clear and reacted very firmly toward Pristina, saying that what has been agreed cannot be changed. "

Drecun: Unilateral solutions cannot solve problems in Kosovo (RTS)

President of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun says that he would like today's discussion on Trepča to be based on facts.

The Committee will be addressed by Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić, who will submit a report on the work of the office and inform the committee on the progress of the dialogue in Brussels.

Drecun: Government informed the EU that does not accept the decision on the Trepca (N1)

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun says that Brussels will sooner or later have to respond to the decision of the Kosovo Assembly to appropriate the Mining and Metallurgy Plant Trepca, because the Serbian government has sent an official letter to the European Community about it.

Drecun: Tahiri deceiving the public (Blic)

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija says that Kosovo's Minister for dialogue Edita Tahiri "with her bellicose statements" is deceiving the public in order to preserve ministerial position because her shift is getting closer.

Drecun says that it could be learned from Albanian political circles that Tahiri will be removed from the position in the announced reconstruction of the Kosovo government.

 

Drecun: If there are privileged like in The Hague then that's not it (TV Most)

- If there are privileged who will avoid justice, a situation similar to that of the Hague Tribunal, of course, it will not be the highest international standards, unless one thinks that what was done in The Hague is the highest standard - said Drecun.

Nevertheless, he considers that the prosecution team engaged quite seriously with gathering evidence in recent months, and how many indictments will be it depends primarily on the results of their work, but also from the fact whether there will be political pressures.

"Montenegro and Kosovo in dispute over Serbian territory" (B92, Sputnik)

Montenegro has unfortunately recognized Kosovo as independent, and now Podgorica and Pristina are in dispute over a piece of territory that belongs to neither.

This is what Milovan Drecun (SNS), chairman of the Serbian Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija, has told Sputnik.

Instead this territory - the subject of a contentious demarcation agreement - belongs to the Republic of Serbia, Drecun said.

Meetings between officials of Belgrade and Pristina by the established method (Večernje Novosti)

Meeting between delegations of Chamber of Commerce of Serbia and Kosovo with Hashim Taçi and the announcement of the arrival of entrepreneurs and lower-ranking political representatives from Kosovo to Belgrade and Niš, announces a new stage in relations between Belgrade and Pristina.