If tomorrow's meeting between the Prime Ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa and the EU High Representative for Security and Diplomacy Federica Mogherini takes place as planned, official topics will be the Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO), license plates, and establishing air traffic between Belgrade and Pristina, diplomatic sources close to the government told Dana.
Elections for the President of the Republic of Kosovo will take place within the constitutional deadline. The elections will be probably held in late February and the ruling coalition has no fear about the outcome because over two-thirds of the parliament support the government, said Petrit Selimi, Kosovo deputy FM, referring to the presidential campaign of the current Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.
Witnesses who will speak about the crimes of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) before a special tribunal are already under the protection programme, and many of them have been relocated around the world, learned Danas. As we were told by diplomatic sources, more than 400 people have already made statements about the KLA crimes, but probably approximately 30 will testify. Furthermore, the software containing all data on the cases to be dealt with by the Special Court is fully protected in Brussels.
Our coalition consists mainly of associations of displaced persons of Kosovo, but also a number of prominent individuals who do not belong to any association. Their work and dedication, until they were violently expelled from our ancestral homes, have left an indelible mark on the territory of Kosovo, said Milos Stojkovic, President of the Coalition of Displaced Persons from Kosovo and Metohija to Danas, announcing the participation of the coalition in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
“Establishment of visa liberalization between EU and Kosovo is in the interest of Serbia. It would ensure that Kosovo citizens in possession of Serbian passports would not be discriminated against and differentiated from other Serbian people,” said Serbian government sources to Danas.
- By calling to demonstrations, they are only burying deeper into the catastrophic internal and international position - says Ivica Dacic, the Head of the Serbian diplomacy. The Government of Serbia told Danas unofficially that "they do not believe" that another round of the Brussels negotiations will be held until the New Year holidays.
The negotiating position of the European Union on Chapter 35, which relates to the Kosovo issue resolution, in essence, has not brought anything new, Danas learns from diplomatic sources close to Brussels. According to interlocutors of Danas, "it is quite likely that the more precise and detailed conditions" will be communicated to Serbia in the next phases of its European path.
The negotiating position of the European Union for Chapter 35, which refers to the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina has not been finished and has not arrived in Belgrade, was said today in the Serbian government. Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic stated that EU members should harmonize their negotiating position. “New formulation which would be acceptable for all must be found,” briefly said Dacic.
Although the end of the first semester in primary and secondary schools in the south of Serbia is close, the National Council of Albanians (NSA) still insists on “unblocking more than one hundred thousand copies of textbooks in Albanian language coming from Pristina, which are still stored at the customs terminal in Presevo.” “We do not give up distribution of the textbooks that are donated by the Kosovo Ministry of Education to the pupils in Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja.
Deputies of the Serbian List in the Kosovo Parliament supported yesterday the Law on ratification of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement, but have abstained from vote on an amendment to the agreement which stipulates that Kosovo in agreement instead of asterisk is referred to as the Republic of Kosovo.