KFOR Commander Major General Lorenzo D’Addario in an interview to Radio kontakt plus said he is worried over rhetoric used in Kosovo, warning that one sentence could be a sparkle to create bigger problems. He termed the situation in Kosovo as peaceful, adding he sees not a single intention to cause incidents. “What I am more concerned about is rhetoric that is being used, since one sentence could be a sparkle that could lead towards bigger problems, and I am constantly appealing to all interlocutors, all people, to be careful with their words and not cause some deeper consequences,” KFOR Com

Chairman of the Serbian National Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun told RTS morning news edition, that UN Secretary General report on Kosovo says the situation there is bad and Kosovo achieved no progress. Drecun said, the UN SG report depicts a realistic situation in Kosovo.

Republic of Serbia in no way must give up on the fight for Trepca mining complex, which from international law aspect is property of Serbia, International Law Professor, Bojan Milisavljevic told Tanjug news agency, adding that Kosovo is not internationally recognized subject, since it is neither a member of the UN nor of UN specialized agencies. He also noted from the legal aspect, recently adopted Trepca statute must be treated as null and void, since it runs contrary to all international standards that guarantee the right to property.

European Commission Spokesperson Maja Kocijancic told Tanjug news agency the issue of Trepca status should be resolved through legally binding agreement on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina. She added, “that all open issues between the two sides should be resolved through finalization of the dialogue.” “EU as a mediator in dialogue aims to resolve all open issues between the two sides once and for all, through a legally binding agreement on comprehensive normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina,” Kocijancic said, responding to Tanjug’s inquiry what cons

Serbian Minister of Mines and Energy Aleksandar Antic said that Serbia would not allow the seizure of its property, which is precisely what the Pristina authorities were trying to achieve with their decisions, Radio KIM reported. “There is no doubt that Serbia is majority owner of Trepca and it is a fact that everyone in the world has to respect, so any talks about Trepca cannot be conducted without the participation of the Government of the Republic of Serbia,” Antic said, adding "as it was the case until now, Serbia would continue to take care of the Serbs working for Trepca, and about work

Chairman of the Serbian National Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun told RTS the statute on the mining complex Trepca adopted by the Kosovo Assembly reflects that Pristina in addition to political, does legal violence too. Drecun added Pristina for years is attempting to take away private properties belonging to the Serbs, and it is passing different laws, so the Serbs stand no chance to prove their ownership. “On the other side, they are taking away what is the property of the state of Serbia, with Gazivode and Trepca being their main targets.

Marko Djuric urged the international community on Sunday not to allow the implementation of a law on the statute of the Trepca mining complex.

Adoption of the draft statute on Trepca mining complex represents yet another in a series of legal violence that Pristina exerts over Serbs in Kosovo, Civic Initiative, Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) said today, Radio KIM reports. SDP “condemns this and any other form of pressure,” adding “that this politically-legal pressure aims to create additional concerns among the citizens for their survival and existence as well as fear from the violence.” SDP added “the Government of the Republic of Serbia must undertake all necessary measures and help Trepca-North board, given that more than 3

The statute on the mining complex Trepca, that was adopted by the Kosovo Assembly on Saturday, will remain “a dead letter on paper”, with jurisdiction up to the Ibar River, Chairperson of Srpska Lista, Goran Rakic said, Radio kontakt plus reports. "As much as the Albanian leaders are trying to endanger the survival of the Serbian people by politics of a final act, and after introduction of tariffs, they also adopted decisions by which they want to take away Trepca from the Serbian people, however Serbs and Serbia will not allow this", Rakic said in a statement. Rakic reminded that the decade