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New topics of the dialogue are possible (RTK2)

On September 4, in Brussels will be continued dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade on integrated border management. Political analyst Dusan Janjic believes that Belgrade and Pristina will have series of meetings, whose results will directly affect the European future of both sides. According to Janjic, one of the first topics of dialogue will be the issue of private and socially owned property in Kosovo. "There are topics that are not fully negotiated, and it must be done.

EULEX is embittering the lives of Serbs (Vesti online)

“The way in which the EULEX is functioning and the way in which it behaves towards the Serbs is totally incomprehensible and unacceptable. It is far away from the law and justice and looks more like a market,” said Dragan Jablanović, Mayor of Leposavic and member of the management team for the implementation of the Brussels Agreement. He stresses that EULEX is currently untouchable and when it comes to the Serbs in the north, can do whatever, and arrest whomever it wants. “No one knows according to which law EULEX operates.

Serb representatives to boycott Brussels agreement? (Vecernje Novosti)

The Government against the announced radical measures, because they endanger interest of our people. Political representatives of Serbs from the northern Kosovo will decide today whether they will respond to the recent moves and pressures of EULEX with interruption of implementation of the Brussels agreement.

Mayors to confer tomorrow in North Mitrovica (Radio Kontakt Plus)

Mayors of Serbian-majority municipalities in northern Kosovo will meet tomorrow in North Mitrovica in order to address the current situation in that part of Kosovo and their positions on EULEX. North Mitrovica Mayor Goran Rakic stated that the mayors will discuss their relations with EULEX in light of that mission’s operation in Zubin Potok/Zubin Potok Municipality and the pressure it is putting on that municipality’s incumbent mayor, Stevan Vulovic, and former mayor Slavisa Ristic.

Labels against EULEX appear overnight in Mitrovica (Kontakt plus radio)

In Mitrovica last night, messages urging EULEX to go home were plastered at various locations in the city, including traffic signs. The posters add that the EU mission in Kosovo is "the enemy of the Serbian people." The labels feature a swastika next to the EULEX logo. Some of the labels contain the words: "EULEX GO HOME". Aside from Mitrovica, the messages have also been seen at several locations in Zubin Potok. The perpetrator is not known.

Zubin Potok: Accusations and threats disrupt the work of the municipality (KiM radio)

Unfounded accusations and threats about the arrest of Zubin Potok Mayor, Stevan Vulović, seriously endanger the functioning of the municipality and the implementation of the Brussels agreement, was stated from Zubin Potok Municipality.  In a statement sent to the media was pointed out that the time frame for scheduling meetings and making important decisions for the functioning of the Municipality is about to expire, and all of that is impossible to do without the presence and consultations with the mayor Stevan Vulovic.

Cliff: Part of the Brussels Agreement about diplomas does not function (Tanjug)

The British Ambassador to Kosovo, Ian Cliff told Tanjug that part of the Brussels agreement, relating to the recognition of diplomas, does not function and that issue with recognition of diplomas issued by North Mitrovica University should be improved.  “I can say that part of the Brussels agreement relating to the recognition of diplomas does not function,” Cliff said, adding that the British Embassy in Kosovo supported a number of Serbian lawyers who wanted to take the bar exam and become the part of Kosovo justice system.

North Mitrovica mayor appeals to international community (Tanjug)

Mayor of North Kosovska Mitrovica Goran Rakic has called on the international community to invest maximum efforts into dealing with security issues and providing a safe environment for all the people in Kosovo. His appeal came after an unexploded hand grenade was found and cleared by the police in North Mitrovica on Saturday, an area where Serbs make up the majority of the population. Two cars were set on fire in Filip Visnjic Street on Saturday, according to preliminary investigation results, and that happened just two days after another similar incident, he stated.

Ivanovic: I was arrested so my political action could stop (Politika, Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Oliver Ivanovic, one of the Serb leaders in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), against whom a criminal indictment for crimes against ethnic Albanians has been issued recently, said he had been arrested so that his political action could be prevented. “My arrest had only one goal: to exclude me from political and public life,” Ivanovic said in an interview he gave to Belgrade-based daily Politika in writing on the day before the indictments against him was issued. He pointed out that he had first been arrested, and then the alleged evidence against him had been being collected for sev