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.
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. “These reports are rather balanced lately, and they are one of the biggest political obstacles on the international scene for Pristina to attempt to complete the ethnic cleansing of the Serbian people and disable any agreement with Belgrade,” Drecun said.
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.”
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.
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.
Marko Djuric urged the international community on Sunday not to allow the implementation of a law on the statute of the Trepca mining complex. This was adopted by the Assembly in Pristina the previous night.
Djuric, who heads the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, underlined that this would have the same consequences to the dialogue as the anti-civilization tariffs on goods from Serbia, the government announced on its website.
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.”
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.
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric has announced that at a joint session of the Government of Serbia and all representatives of Serbian institutions in Kosovo, will be approved ''the most comprehensive package of assistance for the Serbs in Kosovo'', emphasizing that initiative for the joint session came from President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic, reports portal NMagazin, quoting Belgrade based TV Prva.