BELGRADE - Marko Djuric, director of the Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), said on Tuesday that, in a meeting with Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, an agreement has been reached that all MPs of the Serbian List in Kosovo will take a united political front, underlining that it is important that the Serbs take on a part of the responsibility for running the institutions and take part in the government.

BELGRADE - The rule of law remains a priority for Eulex, as does the implementation of what has been agreed in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, the head of the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo, Bernd Borchardt, has said.

Borchardt, whose mandate has been extended until June 2016, told Monday's issue of Vecernje novosti that Eulex staff will no longer head the major judicial institutions in Kosovo, and that the mission's judges will be a minority in Kosovo's courts.

Kosovo authoritiesare illegally selling Serbian property, targeted and agricultural cooperatives. The "privatization" is not recognized either by UNMIK, but nobody prevents robbery.

Who will be the Serbian MP in the Kosovo parliament will be clear soon, because it is expected that Central Election Commission (CEC) completes counting the votes of displaced persons and conditional votes. 

Regardless of the number of mandates for the Serbian List, they will not be assigned according to the coalition agreement. The voters, beside the vote for the List, had to vote for one up to five candidates. Consequently, MPs will be those who won the most votes. 

“Ballots will not be status neutral,” said Nenad Rikalo, Serbian member of the Central Election Commission, ahead of the central elections in Kosovo. If Serbs want more seats in the Assembly, beside ten guaranteed, the Serbs will have to have at least 70,000 votes. If you take into account that the electoral roll has 130,000 Serbs, the numbers are virtually unattainable. 

VIENNA - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has noted that Serbia is a pillar of stability in the region and that the country is doing its best when it comes to the negotiation process with Pristina.

In an interview to Vienna-based daily Der Standard ahead of his Wednesday visit to Austria, Vucic said that after the agreement was signed in April last year, much has been implemented, and that recently a final, very important agreement on the judiciary was reached.

A week before the early parliamentary elections in Kosovo, Pristina authorities and the international community completely ignored Serb requests related to the regularity of the voting. That is the reason why the boycott of elections becomes more realistic option for our compatriots. 

Even the Government of Serbia has not called Serbs to go to the polls on Sunday, because the official Belgrade also supports their requirements. As stated, they requested: 

Departure of "war leaders", as stated in the analysis, is needed to consolidate democracy in Kosovo and create the conditions for achieving justice and reconciliation.

The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) from Ljubljana said in an analysis of the situation in Kosovo, ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, that there is an interest of the international community to remove "war leaders" from the political life of Pristina.

Representatives of the four municipalities in Kosovo have frozen the campaign because of the decisions of the Central Election Commission. Possible boycott if the coat of arms of Kosovo is not removed and if the composition of the Board is not changed.

On the first day of official campaigning for early parliamentary elections in Kosovo, it became unclear whether the Serbs in the north of the province will participate in them.

Belgrade diplomatic action started to remove features of Kosovo’s independence from the election material. Dacic: It is not good to impose symbols of the so-called state that we do not recognize.

Serbia conducts a comprehensive diplomatic initiative for status neutral election material for voting in Kosovo, which is in line with the Brussels agreement.

This confirmed to Novosti, First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, the day before the official start of the election campaign in the province: