The normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina happens every day, said today liaison officer of the Government of Serbia in Pristina, Dejan Pavicevic, pointing out that it is important that this process takes place.
- Although a lot has been implemented, there is still much to be applied - said Pavicevic at the panel discussion "Four years of negotiations: the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina."
The Kosovo government has presented the European Union report of the Brussels dialogue and implementation of agreements covering the period from 1 October 2014 to 20 March 2015.
The report, signed by minister without portfolio and Kosovo chief negotiator, Edita Tahiri, contains the Kosovo government’s assessment on the progress and challenges in the process of implementation of agreements for normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini should visit, end of March, Belgrade and Pristina, circles close to the Serbian government unofficially confirmed to Danas.
The source says that it is about a shuttle diplomacy of the EU which, among other things, will determine the date and theme of a new round of dialogue in Brussels between the premieres of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa. In Brussels yesterday, was not possible to officially confirm this information.
In line with Kosovo laws and the Brussels Agreement, Association of Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo will have neither executive nor monitoring jurisdiction, instead it will have a coordination and advisory role. Serbian side knows this as of the moment of signing the Brussels agreement. I am following the debate between officials in Serbia – I advise them to stay away from illusions and think about what was agreed in Brussels.
The Serbian government has adopted the Regulation on establishing an Office for Coordinating Affairs in the negotiating process with the provisional self-government institutions in Pristina, as well as the Regulation on establishing and regulating the Coordination Body for this negotiating process.
In the course of the preparations for a new round of political dialogue representatives of Serbia and Kosovo held separate meetings with the EU officials in Brussels last week, however the date of the next meeting of two prime ministers was not mentioned.
The director of the Forum for Ethnic Relations Dusan Janjic stated that hiding behind the existing laws makes the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina pointless and assessed that there will be certain changes of laws and the Constitution.
The Kosovo delegation has made it clear that there will be no new topics discussed in the dialogue with Belgrade until the Mitrovica bridge is unblocked, the justice agreement is implemented and the Civil Protection is dissolved. “The position of the Kosovo side has been very clear. There is no sense in continuing to open new issues without implementation of reached agreements,” said Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa’s advisor, Valon Murtezaj. Murtezaj said that Kosovo assets will never be discussed with Serbia.
Upon the invitation of the European Union, Minister for Dialogue of the government of Kosovo, Edita Tahiri is staying in Brussels where yesterday she had meetings with representatives of the European Union engaged in dialogue in Brussels. The central topic of the discussions was the assessment of achievements to date and determining priorities for the progress of dialogue in Brussels in the following stage.
Koha Ditore’s publisher, Falka Surroi, criticizes Kosovo political leaders engaged in the dialogue with Serbia, for lack of transparency on the recently reached agreement on justice. According to her, point 9 of this agreement legalizes Serbia as a decision making party in Kosovo’s justice system. She claims that the agreement discriminates everyone in Kosovo but Serbs.