Minister of Local Government Administration in Kosovo Ljubomir Maric announced that businessmen from Serbia and others who will invest in Kosovo and Metohija will be offered a sustainable development strategy.

Maric said that the strategy will contain the details of the potentials for investment in 10 municipalities. "Those are local governments that will be part of a future Association / Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO), so this will also be the development strategy of the ZSO," said Maric.

Harmonization of the legal framework in Kosovo with the Brussels agreement remains the main prerequisite for establishment of the community of Serb municipalities (ZSO), Ljubomir Maric, the coordinator of the steering team for the ZSO establishment and Kosovo Minister of Administration and Local Self-Government, said late Tuesday.

After a meeting with officials of the European External Action Service, Maric pointed out that he has filed a report at the invitation of the EU on what has been done in terms of ZSO since the steering team was formed in 2013.

Respect of the Brussels Treaty and the formation of the Community/Association of Serbian municipalities are crucial for the survival of Serbs in Kosovo, says Ljubomir Maric, Minister for Local Self-Government in Kosovo. He claims that the Serbs had the support of the international community and announced the formation of inter-ministerial group for the return of displaced Serbs.

Visiting the RTS1, Maric said that the attacks and unrest in Macedonia clearly indicate with what kind of security challenges we are living.

Kosovo Minister of Administration and Local Self-government Ljubomir Maric condemned the attacks on the members of Serb community in Kosovo. "The coexistence of different ethnic groups is a reality and incidents, tensions and attacks of any kind are absolutely unacceptable," said Maric. He welcomed the swift response of the relevant authorities who detained one of the attackers, in the case of attack which happened two days ago in Pasjane.

Serbs expect from Pristina to initiate as soon as possible the formation of working groups that will deal with the Association/Community of Serbian Municipalities (ZSO).

The first test of the relations between the coalition partners towards the Serbian list will be the establishment of working groups, which should lay the foundation for the formation of ZSO.

Koha reports that Kosovo’s Minister for Local Government and Administration, Ljubomir Maric has returned to Kosovo government to perform his duties, after around two months blockade following the dismissal of Communities and Returns Minister, Aleksandar Jablanovic.  Maric participated on Thursday in the ministerial meeting about Brezovica project.

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."

If the Kosovo institutions do not respect the Brussels Agreement, they will open a new crisis, said Ljubomir Maric.

If the Kosovo institutions in the course of the day do not adopt budgets of four municipalities in northern Kosovo for 2015, there are legal possibilities for Pristina to impose provisional measures.

Kosovo Minister for Local Government, Ljubomir Maric said last night that for the Serbs was unacceptable to change status of Trepca, as a pillar of the economy and economic development of the Serbian community in Kosovo, with "hastily adopted decisions".

According to him, the issue of Trepca is and the political and legal issue. Kosovo Parliament last night adopted specific legislation to extend the deadlines and prevent the liquidation of Trepca.

Ljubomir Maric, Kosovo's minister of administration and local self-government from the Serb people, said on Monday that the formation of a community of Serb municipalities (ZSO) will be among the main topics of the next meeting held as part of the Brussels dialogue.

In a statement to Tanjug, Maric said that the ZSO formation is also the main point of the coalition agreement, which the Citizens' Initiative Srpska signed with (ethnic) Albanian parties to form the government.