Mayor of Mitrovica North, Goran Rakic called the Privatisation Agency of Kosovo to suspend the sale of premises, which belong to the company LUX in this city.

Privatisation Agency of Kosovo informed the municipality on March 9 that by the end of this month the privatization tender would be announced for nine premises of this company, increasing the number of the business premises to around 30, for the so-called privatization, in the last 15 days.

Shops are located in the central places in Mitrovica.

A condition for the return of Serb representatives to the Kosovo institutions is the formation of a Community/Association of Serb municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo.

The Belgrade-based daily, Vecernje Novosti further writes that this will be "one of the main conclusions" of the upcoming joint session of all Serb municipalities in Kosovo.

Another daily, Blic, writes that Serbian officials will once again ask Pristina to fulfil its part of the obligations stemming from the Brussels agreement during the next negotiating round at the EU seat.

Around 50 Serbian police officers in northern Kosovo have been suspended due to their rejection to closely cooperate with prosecution and officials dealing with investigations on involvement of Serbs in alleged crimes committed in northern Kosovo, carried Kosovo Police.

Information leaking with regard to murder of the police officer Enver Zumberi in 2010 in Zubin Potok was quoted by Kosovo Police as a justification for suspension for Serb police officers.

The Deputy Head of UNMIK, Jennifer Brush said today that Kosovo without a specific status is not good for the people who live in it, whether Albanians are in question or non-Albanians.

Brush said in an interview in the program "Slobodni Srpski" (Free Serbian), that she hoped that the dialogue in Brussels would help to come to the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo in order to live normally.

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric said today that representatives of Serbs will not return into Kosovo institutions until resolution of the problem of political pressure on them.

- One of these days we will have a meeting between the Prime Minister and representatives of the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija and talk about the political pressures on Serbs which continues - Djuric said, adding that the participation of Serbs in Kosovo institutions remain frozen until these issues are resolved.

Pristina analysts have estimated that a failure in the formation of the Special Court would severely affected statehood and the image of Kosovo. 

Without the adoption of a revised budget in the municipal assemblies in northern Kosovo, the Ministry of Finance in Pristina will not allow the use of funds belonging to the municipalities, was said from the ministry. 

President of the Municipality of North Mitrovica Ksenija Bozovic said that Pristina has no legal basis to dismiss the four municipal assemblies in northern Kosovo.  “Assemblies adopted the budget within the statutory deadline, and there are two legal decisions related to the budget. In any case, there is no legal framework for the dismissal. But, like everything else, the budget became a political issue that will have to be resolved between Belgrade and Pristina,” said Ksenija Bozovic. 

Gabriele Meucci says that so far about 20 suspects have been identified who may be subject to an indictment for war crimes committed in 1999 in Gjakova/Djakovica.

The head of the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, told the Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti daily that he did not wish to reveal their names. The newspaper, however, noted that it has already been disclosed that former Military Security Agency (VBA) chief General Momir Stojanovic was on the list.

BELGRADE - Serbia will not recognize the independence of Kosovo that was unilaterally proclaimed by ethnic Albanians, Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy Aleksandar Vulin said Monday.

“Recognition (independence) of Kosovo is not an option,” Vulin told reporters in his comment on a statement made by Vice-President and Special Rapporteur of the European Parliament on Kosovo Ulrike Lunacek, in which she said that normalization of relations and recognition of Kosovo would be a condition for Serbia’s accession to the European Union (EU).