The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric will participate today in Gracanica at the round table "Decentralization and Serbian communities in Kosovo and Metohija", which will be dedicated to the implementation of the Brussels Treaty and establishing of the Community/Association of Serbian municipalities.
Gracanica Mayor, Vladeta Kostic said today that the Municipality of Gracanica is very familiar with the constitutional and legal regulations and that reminder of the Youth of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, who have visited the municipality of Gracanica and handed the flag and the Constitution of Kosovo, is unnecessary.
In a statement to the media, Kostic said that the municipality of Gracanica uses and displays symbols of the community in accordance with law and international standards.
The Mayor of North Mitrovica, Goran Rakic, condemned "offensive and dangerous content of the song and video" The rifle of freedom" that was recently published by Pristina singer Arian Agushi, known as "Gold Ag". "The song is extolling dangerous idea of pan-Albanian nationalism, i.e. so called Great Albania and video in which is dominating the scene of the alleged murder of Serbian policemen present a direct call for violence," said Rakic in press release.
Branimir Stojanovic, Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, said today during a meeting with some journalists, who were attacked on Saturday during a protest in Pristina, that he will do everything through legal mechanisms to stop these attacks on journalists.
Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric announced that representatives of Serbia at the forthcoming talks in Brussels, on February 9, would run several topics of importance to the Serbian community in the province.
"The first topics of interest, most certainly, will be the position of Serbian municipalities, the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbian property in Kosovo and Metohija, justice. There must be the question of the missing whose fate, on both sides, is still unknown," Djuric said in an interview to "Nase novine."
Minister of Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government Aleksandar Jablanović said that he supports the peaceful and democratic protests, regardless some of these protests are organized against him. "In the 21st century, in a democratic society whose part we are, everyone has the right to express discontent and dissent, especially if it's done in a way that does not obstruct others," said the Serbian minister in the Kosovo government for Radio Free Europe.
Marko Djuric has said that Serbia "will continue to fight against the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo by all means at the state's disposal."
This "fight," however, "does not prevent the administration in Belgrade or the Serbs in Kosovo to talk with the Kosovo Albanians and implement the agreements that have been reached," the director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija said in an interview with the TV Most broadcaster from Zvecan in northern Kosovo.
In next year we will struggle to preserve stability, but also to strengthen the foundations of our existence in Kosovo and Metohija," said Marko Djuric, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija of the Serbian Government.
"We will try to eradicate corruption, crime, bring back confidence in the institutions. We will try to make visible steps in returns. We will also try to help our representatives in provincial institutions to lead the policy in the best possible way," said Djuric, adding that Serbia will continue to strongly support Kosovo.
The commander of the German contingent in Kosovo, Colonel Siegfried Zeyer said that the situation in Kosovo, respectively, in the regions predominantly inhabited by Serbs, calm, but not stable.
The newly elected Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo Branimir Stojanovic and the new Minister for Local Self-Government of Kosovo Ljubomir Maric officially took over their duties from Slobodan Petrovic, who performed both duties in the previous term.
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Local Self-Government in Kosovo, Slobodan Petrovic addressed the press after the handover while the new members of the Kosovo government Branimir Stojanovic and Ljubomir Maric have said that they would do it after getting acquainted with their ministries.