During the upcoming round of Brussels talks Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and prime minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa should sign memorandums on Community / Association of the Serbian municipalities (ZSO), energy and the removal of the “Peace Park”.
A new round of the EU-facilitated dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina is set to take place in Brussels on August 25. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo's Prime Minister Isa Mustafa will take part, the European External Action Service said in a release on Friday.
Continuation of political negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina was announced for 25 August and talks could be completed by signing four new agreements, claim the EU sources.
A large number of the members of the Serbian MIA and Civil protection who have lost their jobs, selection of Serbian judges and prosecutors for the Kosovo judicial system, Ivanovic’s case and seizure of the church property are the results of the Brussels agreement. In the long term they may endanger the survival of the Serbian people and its cultural heritage in Kosovo and Metohija, claim current and former member of the Assembly of Kosovo, Nenad Rasic and Rada Trajkovic.
Implementation of the memorandum on vehicle insurance, which representatives of Belgrade and Pristina reached in Brussels, should begin on Tuesday midnight.
The agreement means that the vehicles registered in Kosovo will be able to go to central Serbia with the insurance document MTPL (motor third party liability). For the vehicles with Serbian license plates, in Kosovo will be sufficient insurance document that is valid in Serbia.
Nenad Rasic, a deputy in the Assembly of Kosovo
At the time it was signed, the Brussels agreement was really a kind of turning point and the first historic step towards reconciliation between Belgrade and Pristina – and from the wider perspective Serbian and Albanian people. But its economic consequences caused fears that it will affect position of Serbs in Kosovo, and consequently initiate emigration of Serbs, due to the economic and security reason, said Nenad Rasic, President of the Progressive Democratic Party and MP in the Kosovo Parliament.
Pristina government does not give up the idea to take from the Serbs the University of Pristina, temporarily relocated in Kosovska Mitrovica. Kosovo Minister of Education Arsim Bajrami, at a ministerial meeting in Vlora, Albania, said that they are ready for "the integration of Northern Mitrovica University in the higher education system in Kosovo." Bajrami has even stated that Pristina authorities are preparing integration and that this is part of the Brussels Agreement, as it is the mutual recognition of diplomas.
Political analyst from Belgrade Dusan Janjic said in Pristina that the aim of the Brussels Agreement was the integration of Serbs, especially those from northern Kosovo into the Kosovo system, and that in the ethnically divided societies the existence of "ethnically pluralistic institutions" is normal.
Bodo Weber, a senior associate at the Democratization Policy Council in Berlin
Chancellor Angela Merkel will come to Belgrade with a clear message that an agreement must be reached so that Germany can give the green light for the opening of the first negotiating chapters. It's an old, but well-known list of obligations, says in an interview Bodo Weber, a senior associate at the Democratization Policy Council in Berlin.
Prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia Isa Mustafa and Aleksandar Vucic will probably reach agreement on Monday on all issues and sign the "Brussels 2" agreement.
This is according to the Belgrade-based daily Danas.
Pristina-based website Koha.net meanwhile cited sources close to the meeting in Brussels, who said that Mustafa and Vucic have agreed on all the issues.