EU Enlargement Negotiations Commissioner, Johannes Hahn said that Belgrade-Pristina agreement must be specific and harmonized, and not a precedent, as well as in line with international law, BETA news agency reported.

“Stance of EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, as a mediator in these negotiations, is clear and it has been clear since the beginning of her mandate – joint action for lasting peace between Serbia and Kosovo, and in the region as a whole, is the main EU’s priority,” Hahn told Podgorica-based daily Pobjeda.

Head of EU Delegation in Serbia, Sem Fabrizi said the EU would not deal with each and every statement when it comes to Kosovo and Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, B92 reports today.

“Ours is to provide peace and full normalization of relations,” Fabrizi added.

Asked to comment on how much statements of Pristina can be considered as dangerous, Fabrizi responded he does not want to comment on that because he does not deal with individual statements.

Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric held an unscheduled press conference in Belgrade this Thursday.

Djuric reacted to the statements being made by Kosovo officials, above all Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj.

Deputy Leader of People’s Party, Nikola Jovanovic assessed today that Serbia needs systematic changes, BETA news agency reported.

Jovanovic added it includes the introduction of lustration, the urgent passing of the law on property origin and the appointment of a special prosecutor for high corruption.

“The main aim of the Alliance for Serbia is to establish a normal society and legal state, in which authorities will not be part of organized crime, bids will not be set in advance, strategic enterprises such as PKB and EPS will not be sold,” Jovanovic said.

Joint session of the Serbian Government and Serb representatives from Kosovo should be held in a month’a time and investment plan for Serb-majority municipalities would be presented, Office for Kosovo and Metohija announced, BETA news agency reported.

The Serbian Ministry of Defense announced yesterday that Minister of Defense Aleksandar Vulin assessed that ''Pristina’s politician Kadri Veseli's statement that Nis belongs historically to self-proclaimed Kosovo, and that he will conquer it, represented a call for war and new conflicts'', and urged the EU to declare on that occasion, reports Belgrade based daily Blic.

More than 400 people from Kosovo joined terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq in 2017, the US State Department said in its Country Reports on Terrorism 2017, adding that 74 of them died there and more than 130 returned home.

The authors of the report said that Kosovo continued fighting the growing threat of terrorism with the government implementing a new counter-terrorism strategy and an updated action plan to combat violent extremism.

The US Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina told Radio Free Europe that the US supports the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and that there are no parallels between Kosovo, Serbia and Republika Srpska (RS).

"What we support when it comes to Kosovo is definitely a dialogue that is being conducted, which we believe should be conducted until a solution is reached that will be the result of a joint agreement between both sides. We certainly welcome the role of the EU in those talks," US Ambassador to BiH Maureen Cormack told RFE.

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said a solution for Kosovo and Metohija is not on the table and it should be patiently looked for, FoNet news agency reported,

Dacic made these remarks in a conference “Western Balkan Security Challanges and Serbia” organized by the Centre for Foreign Policy in Belgrade.

“An idea on delineation that was presented is an option Aleksandar Vucic publicly mentioned and it should yet be a topic of discussion, since the talks did not move ahead in the sense of something concrete, but ideas and options were presented,” Dacic noted.

RTK in Serbian language in an article published yesterday pointed out investments in the four northern municipalities are made from three separate budgets: Government of Kosovo, Government of Serbia, and the Development Fund for the North, while there are different organizations and EU countries, that are also investing there.

However, residents of Mitrovica North say the investments are not felt on the ground. They think that money is not distributed fairly, and it is being invested in wrong projects which are not beneficial for the citizens.