The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, said during his speech at the Security Forum in Belgrade that Kosovo is the point where he does not agree at all with the Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić. He told the Serbian Prime Minister that it would have been better for everyone if Serbia recognized Kosovo.
He added however that the political leaders in Pristina and Belgrade should be commended for the ongoing dialogue.
The head of the parliamentary group of the Serbian List Slavko Simić points that the Kosovo Assembly adopted another law, that is detrimental to the interests of the Serbian nation and Serbian property in Kosovo.
Simić told Tanjug that a law on strategic investments was adopted, which, he explained, fully enables the Kosovo Government to freely dispose of property that had previously identified as the ownership of the state or the society.
The Serbian Government has decided to nullify “all and any legal effects of all and any acts or actions” of institutions in Priština regarding Trepča.
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić said that this means that the Government largely accepted the proposals of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija with the aim of “keeping Trepča in operation.”
The Serbian government on Tuesday decided to annul all the legal consequences of acts and actions by the interim self-government institutions in Pristina regarding the factual and legal position of the Trepca mining complex, PM Aleksandar Vucic said.
“We were compelled to make such a decision as we want Trepca to continue to operate,” he told a press conference.
Trepca is vital for the survival of nothern Kosovo-Metohija, Vucic noted.
The government of Kosovo considers that Serbia’s reactions with regards to the Trepça Law are vain and pointless. To the authorities in Pristina, claims of the Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić that he will annul Pristina’s decisions related to Trepça, do not have any judicial or practical impact.
The Government of Serbia has announced that it has decided to annul all legal consequences of the Kosovo authorities’ actions related to Trepça status.
The Serbian government has sent a letter to Brussels explaining all the harmful consequences of the Kosovo Assembly decision on the Trepca mining complex, Politika reports.
It was the first step relying on legal and political instruments and democratic, parliamentary and extra-parliamentary methods aimed at protecting Serbia's property in Kosovo, the daily reported.
Kosovo Minister for Return and Communities Dalibor Jevtić says that the Serbian list will prepare an appeal which will be referred to the Constitutional Court with an explanation why they consider the adoption of the law on Trepča as violation of the constitution and certain laws.
According to Jevtić's words, the Serbian List will use all legal and democratic mechanism to solve this problem.
Minister of Mining and Energy Aleksandar Antić says that he expects from Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić to announce proposal for a solution to the problem of Trepča at today's session of the Government of Serbia.
Antić says that Vučić will try to find solutions that will the best protect the interests of Serbia in this very sensitive moment.
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić said that in Serbia we have “political mediation” involved in a sensitive subject such as Trepča.
Đurić said so answering a question on what did the officials from Belgrade sign in Brussels on Trepča in the TV show “150 minutes” on TV Prva.
“We have a problem here. While the Albanians are unified in their striving to secede, and take our property, in Serbia we face some kind of political mediation on that issue”, said Đurić.
The news website notes that opposition parties in Kosovo and political analysts have continuously criticised the position of the Serbian List vis-à-vis the state and institutions of Kosovo, some even arguing that parties that don’t recognise Kosovo’s independence should not be part of the central government.