Technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina on issues of telecommunications, vehicle insurance and integrated management of crossings will continue today in Brussels. Marko Djuric, Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija will lead Belgrade's team.
The head of the negotiating team for negotiations on Serbia's accession to the EU, Tanja Miscevic said today that between Belgrade and Pristina, there is no agreement on the status of Community/Association of Serbian municipalities in Kosovo and added that this dialogue affects the European integration of our country.
State leaders are setting red lines to the demands that lead to the recognition of Kosovo's independence. Nikolic: If they continue to seek from us to recognize Kosovo, it means that they do not want us. Dacic: Now they impose on us and the respect of the "the spirit of the Brussels Treaty"
Serbia will not fulfil Kosovo's conditions that were not agreed in Brussels, which are additionally placed on the list of demands for the opening of the first negotiating chapters with the EU - said sources of the Serbian national leadership for Vecernje Novosti.
In an interview published by Politika, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, Johannes Hahn said that he would like to see opening of the first chapters soon and that he is in Belgrade to help Serbia to finish all that needed to be done.
At the latest Belgrade-Pristina talks in Brussels, Kosovo agreed not to unilaterally privatize companies in the mainly Serbian north without seeking the consent of the community.
Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa, the Serbian and Kosovo Prime Ministers, met on Tuesday in Brussels for another round of EU-mediated talks and agreed to halt fresh privatisations of companies in the Serb-run north of Kosovo.
The former Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, Erhard Busek, in an interview for Kosova Press said that given the need to establish normal relations between Kosovo and Serbia, diplomatic games are not very useful. According to him, Serbia's arrest warrant on Kosovo's Deputy Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, is a political game. "These are all political games with no future. Serbia should think also about the arrest warrants which have affected the Serbs themselves in the past,” Busek said.
Serbia has informed its former province of Kosovo that Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci will be arrested if he tries to attend a conference in Belgrade this week in what would have been a landmark visit by the former guerrilla commander.
Thaci is invited to a civil society event on regional reconciliation in the Serbian capital on Friday. He had said he hoped to attend.
The prospect put Serbia's government in an awkward spot.
Serbian authorities have "officially informed the Kosovo organs" that Kosovo Deputy PM Hashim Thaci will be arrested if he travels to Belgrade on April 24.
The Beta news agency is reporting this on Monday quoting a source, noting that Thaci was told he would be arrested based on a valid court verdict, and an arrest warrant stemming from the ruling.
Why the 11 German conditions, for the opening of Chapter 35 in the EU and Serbia negotiations, which are related to Kosovo, have become a major theme these days about which Ivica Dacic, Serbian Foreign Minister was talking about in all media? How is it related to the forthcoming round of negotiations between prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, on 21 April in Brussels? Interlocutors of Danas in Belgrade and Mitrovica gave different answers to these questions.
BRUSSELS - The EU expects the procedure envisaged in the Brussels agreement to be respected in case of the announced visit of Kosovo Minister of Foreign Affairs Hasim Taci to Belgrade, spokesperson of the High EU representatives for foreign affairs and security policy Maja Kocijancic stated on Friday.