The Serbian List MP, Nenad Rasic, said on Thursday that Serb MPs were not invited to any meetings regarding the border demarcation deal with Montenegro, and therefore they didn’t participate in the Assembly session. “This is a normal reaction because Serb representatives were not invited to any official meeting that was related to the demarcation deal,” Rasic said. He denied that there were conditions imposed by the Serbian List in exchange for participating in the session. “Until this moment, I can say that there were no conditions.

It is hard to expect that Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities will be established in the course of this year, said MP from the ranks of the Serbian List, Nenad Rašić, and put the blame for this on the international community, which should, according to him, strengthen its role in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

Member of the Parliament of Kosovo Nenad Rašić said that a request was filed before the Kosovo Constitutional Court for the protection of constitutional rights of citizens who receive the basic pension, or some kind of social assistance of 75 euro, who were deprived of this right, as he said, by an illegal bylaw of the Kosovo Ministry of Labour and Social protection.

Earlier this year, the ministry has adopted a bylaw that expands criteria for receipt of the basic pension.

The MP of the Serbian List in the Kosovo assembly Nenad Rašić said that the team, or working group, for drafting the Statute of the Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (A/CSM) had not yet been formed. Rašić said that the stories about the formation of such a team are speculation. "The media reported that this team should supposedly consist of four mayors from northern Kosovo. This is untrue. Such a concept would be incorrect, because then in the team would work only people from the north of Kosovo," said Rašić.

Serbian MPs in the Kosovo parliament have filed with the Constitutional Court of Kosovo "a request for verification of the legality of administrative instruction", which provides a new method of registering and exercising pension rights, granted to the citizens over 65 years. The filed request was signed by all 10 MPs of the Serbian List.

Member of the Kosovo Parliament Nenad Rašić believes that politicians need EULEX in order to comply with the moral standards. "EULEX could do the more important things in every sense, but still we need it because of operational reasons, because they are the only link with the EU, but also because they present our common goal, i.e. entry into the EU. Another thing is psychological in nature, which is that we in the Balkans definitely need a 'big brother', even if it is fancied," said Rašić.

Nenad Rašić, a deputy in the Kosovo Assembly, said today that for the Serbian community the Law on the Agency for comparison and verification of property is unacceptable. The law was adopted on Thursday at a session of the Kosovo parliament.

Rašić said that this regulation does not provide adequate treatment for the displaced persons, especially displaced Serbs who lived in Kosovo.

Administrative Instruction of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, which contains new requirements for entitlement to a basic pension in Kosovo, has created difficulties to the applicants. Obtaining the necessary documents, such as proof of property tax payment for internally displaced persons is almost mission impossible. For the relevant ministry, new requirements are a mechanism against possible abuses, while the caucus of the Serbian List in the Kosovo Assembly, characterized the move of the ministry as a violation of the law.

Representatives of Kosovo Serbs at the Assembly claim that there is no reason not to vote the agreement for the demarcation of the border with Montenegro. According to Kosovo Assembly MP from the Serbian List, Nenad Rašić, this would open way to the process of visa liberalization for Kosovo citizens. Rašić told Radio Free Europe that after the liberalization of visas, Kosovo Serbs, no matter where they live, will be interested for the Kosovo passports.

The Ombudsperson of Kosovo should be from non-majority communities, said MP Nenad Rašić at a meeting of the Assembly.

"While I appreciate the work of the Ombudsman Jashari, I believe that Ombudsperson should be from non-majority communities since it concerns the position and rights of non-majority communities, the weakest links in any society," said Rašić.