Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo Branimir Stojanović has paid a visit to Klokot/Kllokot municipality where he presented “Our Plan”, and inaugurated the Office for Coordination and Cooperation.

Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtić and Minister for Justice Hajredin Kuci discussed today a possibility for creation of a special court that would deal with cases of usurped property.

The success of a ‘tough diplomatic battle’ of Belgrade against Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO that was announced by the Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić will be at the first test this week. UNESCO’s Executive Board will gather in Paris on 7 October at its 197th session, where Kosovo’s request for membership in that organization, submitted by Albania in behalf of Kosovo, would be on the preliminary agenda.

Serbia will not have a negotiating position for Chapter 35, which deals in the negotiations with the EU with the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina. This chapter does not replace the dialogue on the normalization of relations and therefore there is no need for a negotiating position.

The Chapter 35 will most likely be the first one to open in the negotiations between Serbia and the EU, which, according to all indications and from Brussels and Belgrade, should begin by the end of the year.

Serb-Albanian story has a positive echo in Brussels, and it is the right momentum for the full normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, said Pristina’s coordinator in the dialogue with Belgrade Blreim Shala.

President of the Regulatory Authority of Electronic and Postal Communications in Kosovo Ekrem Hoxha said today that from Serbia has not arrived any request for a third mobile operator in Kosovo as agreed by the Agreement on telecommunications between Pristina and Belgrade. Deadline for submitting request, under the Agreement, is November 15 while the obligation of the Regulatory Authority was, until January 15, to give licence to operate in Kosovo, Hoxha said.

Blerim Shala, the Coordinator of the Pristina team for the Brussels negotiations with Belgrade and independent MP in the Kosovo Assembly said in an interview for Danas that negotiations were very difficult process and that there were a lot of problems with the inherited mentality and the transitions in both countries.

You are negotiator with the continuity of Rambouillet to Brussels. Is there a common thread for all previous negotiations?

The most powerful Western states consider that time is not ripe yet for creation of the Kosovo army and that Pristina should not carry it out without agreement with Belgrade, Blic reported.

Negotiation teams of Belgrade and Pristina agreed in principle about the manner of mutual recognition of university diplomas, however the text of the agreement will undergo further harmonization. The agreement on mutual recognition was published late Wednesday at the web page of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, however on Thursday morning it was withdrawn for further harmonization, following the request of all three sides – Brussels, Belgrade and Pristina. Final version, of the first draft dated 2011, is due to be harmonized at the firs