UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing Leilani Farha voiced concern on Wednesday in a meeting with members of three Serbian parliamentary committees over a rise in the number of homeless people and the fact that most social housing programs in Serbia are being financed from EU funds.

That is not a sustainable solution, Farha said, noting that there are some very good social housing programs, but that there is room for improvement in that field.

Kosovo’s President, Atifete Jahjaga, said that Serbia should stop supporting illegal structures in Kosovo, especially in the northern part of Kosovo. In addition she required that the citizens of Serb community to be helped to integrate into Kosovo’s social and institutional life. While talking about the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue, Jahjaga highlighted the importance of the implementation of agreements reached and further engagement towards full normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia.

The Human Rights Advisory Panel in the UN Kosovo mission considers that UNMIK had violated the European Convention on Human Rights and has not conducted an effective investigation into the abduction and probable murder of Marko Vitošević from Orahovac, transmitted Frankfurt "Vesti".

Interview with Tomislav Nikolic, President of Serbia

Is Kosovo issue considered as an internal affair of Serbia or as regional, taking into consideration the Brussels agreement?

Ljubomir Knezevic, journalist of than Pristina-based daily Jedinstvo, and correspondent of Politika, went missing on this very day exactly 16 years ago in vicinity of Vučitrn/Vushtrri, the town where he used to live with his family. Ever since, there are no traces of him, whereas family and friends, along with associations, are trying to find out about his destiny for 16 years now.

If they want to join the EU, Belgrade and Pristina will have an obligation to sign another agreement that will allow the admission of Kosovo to the United Nations.

The full membership of Kosovo in the UN will enable entry into other international organizations such as the OSCE, Council of Europe, and finally, the European Union; say Western diplomatic sources for Blic explaining what brings the future agreement, the so-called Brussels 2, which has been recently debated in public.

Serbian has invested in last five decades more than USD 17 billion in road, energy and telecommunication infrastructure and economy in Kosovo.

Agreement reached in Brussels to stop privatization of Serbian companies in northern Kosovo, should stop illegal sale of Serbian property, like the one that is threatening to Trepca and Brezovica.

The opinion piece of the editor in chief of this daily, Agron Bajrami, which was initially published in the Montenegrin daily Vjesti, comes as a response to the statement of the World Bank Director, Jan Peter Olters, who criticized publicly Kosovo politicians for not being able to change the difficult socio-economic situation in Kosovo for fifteen years and for leading Kosovo into deeper crisis for their narrow interests.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's second mandate will end next year, and his successor will be elected in the summer of 2016.

For now, it is known that the next UN chief will come from an Eastern European country.

The unofficial race has already begun, but the road to the top UN job is very long. In order to become a candidate, a hopeful must first obtain official endorsement of their country, followed by a long path through the maze of international lobbying.