The director of the Forum for Ethnic Relations Dušan Janjić today said that talks between prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa, were successful and that compromise was reached with regard to the Association/Community of Serb municipalities (A/CSM) in Kosovo and Metohija.
Delegations of Belgrade and Pristina today started talks in Brussels under the auspices of the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said that substantial agreement on the Association/Community of Serb municipalities, along with telecommunication, energy and ‘Peace Park’ is of the outmost importance for the Serbian Government.
A two-day regional conference on community policing and establishment of the Security Forum has kicked-off in Pristina today.
Creation of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities (A/CSM) is of the outmost importance because it is necessary that there is an institution that would gather all Serbs in Kosovo, said Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanović.
Stojanoivc said to RTV Pink that, in the forthcoming meeting of the prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo on 22 June in Brussels, he expects progress in terms of the establishment of the A/CSM and agreement on its shape and way of functioning.
Due to difficult living conditions Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija are lately selling their properties more frequently.
One of the reasons for selling their land, according to inhabitants of Novo Brdo/Novobërdë, is that there are no jobs. There are no more youngsters, they are leaving their houses in search for better life. “They are not leaving abroad, they go to Serbia proper,” says one of locals, and adds that poor living conditions is the reason for selling properties and leaving.
Three former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) could face the same destiny of Ramush Haradinaj when traveling out of Kosovo, writes Pristin-based Koha Ditore. According to the paper, Interpol warrants are still valid for Azem Syla, Shukri Buja and Fatmir Limaj. They are on warrants, which are valid in 190 states, whereas names of Hashim Thaci and Agim Ceku have been removed from the list.
Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtić said, on the occasion of the World Refugee Day, that wherever displaced live they live in difficult and inhuman conditions. Jevtić further said that marking of the World Refugee Day reminds on all hardship of those who used to live in their homes in adequate conditions.