Kosovo political analyst, Fatmir Sheholi, believes that representative of the Government of Kosovo will lead the political dialogue, and representative of the Self-determination will be at the forefront of technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, which will be soon continued. He rejected the ambiguity, caused by the attitude of Self-determination, that Belgrade should not participate in the dialogue, but only representatives of Kosovo Serbs, the EU and European Commission.

Former Head of Coordination Centre for Kosovo, Nebojsa Covic and his associate Anđelka Radenković are suspects for the embezzlement of more than ten million euro.

The investigation included a total of six persons. Beside Covic and Radenković, in the investigation are included former head of Kosovska-Mitrovica District, Dragan Kalaba, and two company directors who were contractors of controversial contract, Idriz Šijak and Bojan Radovanovic. The sixth suspect is not available to the prosecution.

BELGRADE -- The government's office for media relations has announced that Serbia would not sign any interstate agreement with Priština.

Director of the office Milivoje Mihajlović said that "only agreements that will make life easier for citizens in Kosovo and Metohija will be initialed."

"Serbia will sign agreements on energy, telecommunications, everything that will make life easier for citizens in Kosovo. No interstate agreement will be signed, that is spin meant to raise the rating of Hashim Thaci," said Mihajlović.

Informal consultations concerning Chapter 35 will be held in Brussels on Sept. 5 between the Belgrade delegation, which will be headed by the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, and representatives of the European Commission's external relations office.

The Office for Kosovo and Metohija told Beta that, after the fulfilment of obligations assumed in the fields of telecommunications and energy and in the creation of the draft statute of the Community of Serbian Municipalities, the picture regarding the report on Chapter 35 will be clearer.

PRISTINA - Jennifer Brush, former Director of the Office of South Central European Affairs at the US Department of State, has been appointed as Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Kosovo.

The decision to appoint Brush was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday, UNMIK said in a statement.

Brush succeeded Robert Sorenson of the United States on September 1, the statement said. The UN Secretary-General said that he is grateful to Sorenson for his contribution to UNMIK.

Minister without portfolio responsible for European integration Jadranka Joksimovic said today that the outcome of the Brussels Dialogue "will not be a peace agreement" between Serbia and Kosovo.

Joksimovic assessed the statement of outgoing Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci as a prelude to the start of the second phase of the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia and more for the internal public.

Group of activists formed the Serbian national forum (SNF) in Gracanica, an organization whose goal is to assemble the intellectual elite of Kosovo Serbs and solving problems of the Serbian community, reported RTK2.

- The idea came from the need to include an intellectual force of the Serbian people in Kosovo and therefore propose solutions for problems related to the Serbian people in Kosovo, ranging from everyday problems, which may be trivial for some, to those very painful and difficult ones – said one of the founders of the forum professor Aleksandar Djikic.

BELGRADE -- The European Union has defined what it seeks from Serbia, when it comes to Russia, as a matter of "solidarity or active neutrality," said Tanja Miščević.

Miščević heads the Serbian team in membership negotiations with the EU.

BELGRADE -- Serbia is absolutely committed to finding a solution to the missing persons' issue and not a single body or individual has ever done anything to prevent it.

This is what President of the Commission on Missing Persons Veljko Odalović told Tanjug ahead of the conference on the matter due to take place in Mostar on Friday.

“Serbia stands alongside Oliver, Ilija, Dragoljub, Nebojsa and Aleksandar and we are confident that they would prove innocent, in whichever fair procedure,” said Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, to the reporters in Kosovska Mitrovica.

At the same time, he added, Serbia is demanding their release pending completion of the court procedure, and that they will be allowed adequate time for the preparation of defence.