Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said that the Government, despite difficult negotiations, managed to be with its people in the southern province and announced that he would continue to fight for the Community/Association of the Serb municipalities. According to him, the motto by which the government was guided in solving the problems of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija was: "Who if not we?" and "When, if not now?". After the inaugural meeting of the Government of Serbia in the mining basin "Kolubara", Djuric said to the reporters that representatives of t

The privatization process of Ski-Centre ''Brezovica'' is coming to an end, and the local Serbs believe that this will be the hardest blow for them since 1999. ''If they take mountain from us, we're done,'' repeat the Serbs in Brezovica, in the Sirinicka parish, municipality of Strpce, the utmost South of Kosovo.

Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric said in Mitrovica on Thursday that Belgrade had implemented all points, from the 7th to the 15th, of the Brussels agreement on the normalization of relations with Pristina. It now rests with Pristina to implement the first six points of this agreement, Djuric said at a meeting with representatives of local governments in northern Kosovo. He stressed that Belgrade would not give up on the implementation of the part of the agreement which envisages the creation of the community of Serb municipalities (

Politically, establishment of the community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo is an obligation under the Brussels Agreement and it is advocated by Belgrade and the representatives of the Srpska list in the province, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, said Wednesday. The Brussels Agreement is not a "buffet" where everyone can take what suits them, Djuric said at a conference on respect of European human rights conventions in Kosovo, organised by the Strasbourg House of Justice. Under Kosovo's laws, many rights contained in European conventions are guar

Although the Government of Serbia has announced the last week's joint emergency meeting of all 10 Serbian municipalities in Kosovo's local government system as ''the start of the creation of political unity and institutions in Kosovo and Metohija, whose formalization will be considered later", the Serbian mayors now are announcing that "the initiative for the establishment of Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) is raised to a higher political level." - The negotiating table in Brussels is a senior political level, where Belgrade and Pristina should agree on Community/Association of Serb

The formation of Association/Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) remains a priority of the Serbs in Kosovo, said Branimir Stojanovic, Kosovo's deputy prime minister. He pointed out that it is necessary to solve the issues of privatization, the full protection of property and rights of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo. Stojanovic said that ten conclusions, which representatives of municipalities with Serbian majority in Kosovo made a few days ago at a meeting in Gracanica, have reflected the need of Serbs in Kosovo, not a political option or party. "The crown of all should be the

Gracanica Mayor, Vladeta Kostic said that the recent first joint meeting of municipalities with Serbian majority practically raised the issue of establishing the Association/Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) and that the initiative is now raised to a higher political level. Kostic said that in formal legal terms, the process of creating the ZSO has not started yet, because the legal requirements are not met, nor the statute of the Community was adopted. Kostic, who is also president of the Civic Initiative "Srpska", said that one of the demands from the meeting in Gracanica was to pr

The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric will participate today in Gracanica at the round table "Decentralization and Serbian communities in Kosovo and Metohija", which will be dedicated to the implementation of the Brussels Treaty and establishing of the Community/Association of Serbian municipalities. As stated in the press release, it will be the first in a series of roundtables that will this year organize the Forum for Ethnic Relations in cooperation with the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society, and within the project "Temptation of Serbian community in the normali

Whether will the existing laws of Kosovo be the base for the establishment of Community of Serbian municipalities, which would then lead to the level of non-governmental organizations, or Pristina will adjust the regulations so that the ZSO belong the jurisdiction agreed in Brussels - this is the main point of contention between Belgrade and Pristina, which hinders its formation. According to our information, the position of Pristina is that the ZSO should be created by the current law and is supported by several powerful European states, which means that this community would not have been di

Community/Association of Serbian municipalities in Kosovo shall be established for three to five months, said the vice president of the Kosovo government Branimir Stojanovic. Question of Community/Association of Serbian municipalities should be solved.