Dragan Djukanovic, the Center for Foreign Policy, says that ahead of Serbia, in the coming years on the road to the EU, a lot of work and above all, that it should align its legislation with EU legislation.
He expects also from the European Union to put pressure on Pristina, as soon as possible, primarily to unblock the agreement on the Community/Association of Serbian municipalities.
Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtic said tonight that the opening of the first chapters of the EU with Serbia were extremely important news for the Serbs in Kosovo.
- For those of us who live in Kosovo, opening of chapters is important, but also that everything agreed in Brussels will be implemented - he said in a statement to RTS.
Albanians should take responsibility for the security of Serbs and they should stop looking for excuses for the perpetrators that have not been found, said yesterday Deputy Kosovo Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic.
Stojanovic told the RTS that the atmosphere is such that many radical elements want to raise the temperature to the boiling point.
Then, according to him, the most vulnerable people suffer who live in remote settlements, far away from the Serbian municipalities.
Kosovo Minister of Local Government Administration, Ljubomir Maric, told RTS that the recent attacks on Serbs in Kosovo are a message that they will not be peaceful and that they are not welcome. He stressed that it is required urgent involvement of the police from the Serbian community in these areas.
The house of an elderly couple Mazić in Klina/Kline was stoned several times in the last three days. The attackers pelted the windows of the house, so the damage was already considerable, told the RTS remaining Serbs in the town.
Ruža and Živan Mazić, about 70 years old, have reported all the attacks so far to the police.
The perpetrators of previous attacks have not been found.
In Klina/Kline live about twenty Serbian returnee families.
During talk show "Upitnik" which was broadcasted on RTS, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stated that Chapters 32 and 35 will be opened on 14 December. “This is result of the citizens’ efforts, for which I congratulate them," Vucic said.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's latest report on Kosovo stressed the importance of establishing the Community / Association of Serb Municipalities (ZSO). Ban welcomed the "continued progress" in Brussels dialogue and agreements that Belgrade and Pristina reached on 25 August, and in particular, he said, the agreement on the establishment of ZSO which, in his opinion, is the "foundation" of the Brussels agreement on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, from April 2013.
Kosovo failed to win needed two-third majority of votes for membership in UNESCO at organization’s general conference in Paris. 92 states voted yes and 50 voted no, out of 142 states that participated in voting, whereas 29 states abstained from voting.
Abbot Sava Janjic, in a video message, says that he believes that decision on Kosovo membership in UNESCO should be postponed until Belgrade and Pristina, under the Brussels dialogue, clearly define mechanisms of institutional protection of the Serbian holy sites in Kosovo with international guarantees.
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said today that Serbia will never do anything that would go beyond Kosovo's status neutrality.
Commenting on a statement of the President of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Vladimir Kostic that the reality was that Kosovo is not in Serbia's hands neither de facto nor de jure, Dacic told the RTS that the reality was that Serbia does not have full sovereignty over a part of its territory but that either have it the authorities in Pristina.