Faculty for Security professor Zoran Dragisic has said that mass migration from Kosovo and Metohija to the EU is "an organized act of crime groups."

He also pointed out that the recent phenomenon "does not represent a major security threat to Serbia."

"The services should answer what is behind this mass migration, because it is characteristic of war or major catastrophe, which are not present in Kosovo at this moment. Kosovo was also poor ten months and two years ago, but this was not happening. I'm afraid it has been organized by criminal groups," said Dragisic.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that he was glad that the agreement on the judiciary in Kosovo was reached in Brussels.

Speaking for the Novi Magazin publication, he at the same time expressed concern that Serbia is not ready to, "with the number of judges and prosecutors," immediately begin its implementation.

"I did not see anybody in the past year preparing for a solution that can be immediately applied. Do we even have such personnel in Kosovo and Metohija? I think we do not," said Nikolic.

 The agreement on the judiciary reached earlier this week "is not enough to open chapter 35 on Kosovo" in Serbia's membership negotiations with the EU, writes Blic. According to the newspaper, there are "at least six more obligations stemming from the Brussels agreement which so far have not been met." 

BELGRADE -- Branimir Stojanovic has said that a decision has not yet been made on the further steps when it comes to the Serb List participation in the Kosovo government.

Stojanovic, who serves as a deputy prime minister of Kosovo, told Radio-Television of Serbia (RTS) that meetings will be held between Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Serbs from Kosovo.

"If the decision concerned only us personally, we'd make it easier and faster," he was quoted as saying, and adding:

Serbia is cooperating closely with neighboring countries in a bid to solve the problem of the Kosovo Albanians trying to move to Western Europe.

This cooperation is taking place primarily with Hungary, but also with Germany, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in Brussels on Monday evening.

"Experts have arrived in Belgrade. However, this is not up to us. We respect the freedom of movement, which is one of the European values," Vucic told reporters after a meeting with European Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn.

Top officials of the police forces of Serbia, Hungary, Austria and Germany have agreed on greater cooperation as they work to prevent illegal migration.

Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic met in Belgrade on Monday with German Federal Police chief Dieter Roman, Hungarian Police Director Hungary Karoly Papp, and a delegation of the Austrian police.

Stefanovic announced afterwards that in addition to regular border police, Serbia will soon deploy the Gendarmerie unit and the "general jurisdiction" police at the border crossings with Hungary.

The most important political and security challenge for Serbia is the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, Ljubisa Dikovic has said.

The Serbian Army (VS) chief told the Belgrade-based Danas newspaper that Serbia is, at the moment, not under military threat.

"The greatest security threats are ethnic and religious extremism, international networks of organized crime and illegal migration of people motivated by economic, political and security problems. Another risk is the participation of citizens of Balkan states in armed conflicts in the Middle East," Dikovic said.

BELGRADE -- Zeljko Sertic has said that the Serbian government will not allow the government of Kosovo to, with any act, violate the principle of ownership over property.

"The question of property cannot be resolved by a unilateral attitude of an individual. Serbia has a way to respond to such attempts," the Serbian economy minister told reporters at the government HQ on Monday.

PRISTINA -- Ethnic Albanians continue to leave Kosovo in great numbers even after their departure via Merdare has been prevented.

Buses carrying immigrants headed for Hungary and on to other EU countries are no longer allowed to go via this administrative line crossing, located between Kosovo and central Serbia.

But late on Sunday, the media in Pristina are reporting, a large number of people, mostly in private cars, headed towards the Vrmici crossing with Albania, planning to travel to Montenegro, "and try and reach an EU country from there."