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Kosovo agrees halt to disputed privatisations (Balkan Insight)

At the latest Belgrade-Pristina talks in Brussels, Kosovo agreed not to unilaterally privatize companies in the mainly Serbian north without seeking the consent of the community.

Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa, the Serbian and Kosovo Prime Ministers, met on Tuesday in Brussels for another round of EU-mediated talks and agreed to halt fresh privatisations of companies in the Serb-run north of Kosovo.

Overture and solutions (not) negotiated (Danas)

Why the 11 German conditions, for the opening of Chapter 35 in the EU and Serbia negotiations, which are related to Kosovo, have become a major theme these days about which Ivica Dacic, Serbian Foreign Minister was talking about in all media? How is it related to the forthcoming round of negotiations between prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, on 21 April in Brussels?

Thaci: Association of Serb Municipalities will never be autonomy (Lajmi/Reporter)

Kosovo’s Principal Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Hashim Thaci, told Slovenian weekly Reporter that Serbs are part of the Kosovo Assembly and that soon they will rejoin the government and other institutions. “Kosovo is home to all its residents and together we can build a future with the participation of all communities in state institutions,” he said. Thaci said that the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities will be created in line with the Brussels agreement reached between Pristina and Belgrade.

Incidents in the North, in Pristina protest of the opposition (Danas)

Pristina, Mitrovica, Belgrade - Whether we should expect after a series of incidents in northern Kosovo the spread of unrest and south of the river Ibar, bearing in mind that yesterday the opposition of the Kosovo Albanians, confirmed that on April 18, will protest on the streets, demanding social justice instead of the previously announced protest over the formation of community Serbian municipalities? Rada Trajkovic from the European Movement of Serbs in Kosovo and Goran Bogdanovic, former Minister for Kosovo and Metohija and deputy in the Parliament of Serbia, do not exclude such a scenari

Belgrade and Pristina have the same policy (KIM radio)

Former Mayor of Strpce/ Shtërpce, Zvonko Mihajlovic said that Belgrade and Pristina, when it comes to Kosovo Serbs, currently have the same policy. Commenting session of the Strpce/Shtërpce municipality, which discussed the master plan for investment in the ski resort Brezovica, head of the Radical Party in this Municipality, said that this reflected the actions of Albanian lobbyists operating in the ranks of the Serbian community. "This plan exists from before, and aims to recapture the entire complex where the ski centre is located, as well as to expel all workers on the street with no gua

Pavicevic: Normalization is happening every day (Blic)

The normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina happens every day, said today liaison officer of the Government of Serbia in Pristina, Dejan Pavicevic, pointing out that it is important that this process takes place. - Although a lot has been implemented, there is still much to be applied - said Pavicevic at the panel discussion "Four years of negotiations: the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina." - People who watch from the side maybe see this process as too slow, but it is not so - Pavicevic said, recalling that 2015 began with signing agreements on Judic

Informal ministerial meeting held in Pristina (B92, Tanjug, Beta)

An informal meeting of ministers of foreign affairs and ministers of transport of regional countries was held in Pristina on Wednesday. Serbia was represented by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic, Tanjug reported. According to announcements, the conference covered "tangible economic projects of regional character with a special emphasis on investments in infrastructure which can be realised from EU funds aimed at the development of the Western Balkans." The

Dacic: Community of Serb municipalities cannot be NGO (TV Most)

The Community/Association of Serbian municipalities is a form of association and cannot be a non-governmental organization, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in Pristina on Wednesday. The only thing that the Pristina government has always stressed as important is that the Serbs in Kosovo cannot be organized in a way similar to that of Republika Srpska (the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina), Dacic told reporters after the end of an informal ministerial conference on infrastructure projects in the Western Balkans in Pristina. Commenting on a statement by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Ra