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Belgrade for cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce in Pristina (Vesti)

Serbia in the region offers the best conditions for investors. I am proud of the fact that Serbia is today politically and economically stable country despite economic crisis.

This said the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, addressing businessmen from Austria and Serbia in the Business Forum Serbia in Vienna 2015. He recalled that Serbia is "pillar of stability in the whole region."

He reiterated that the Serbian government is working on creating a climate conducive to attracting investors, because there is not enough of its own capital to make a positive growth.

Thaci: Kosovo, a factor of stability and unity in the Balkans (Lajmi)

The Principal Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, who is hosting today’s Western Balkans Ministerial Conference in Pristina, said in his opening remarks that Kosovo is proving to be a constructive country with a very important role in the region, Europe and beyond. Thaci said: “good relations and dialogue with neighbors is one of the key requirements for moving toward membership in the European Union and NATO. This is why regional cooperation is one of the top priorities of Kosovo’s foreign policy agenda.

Regional officials in Pristina on Wednesday (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Regional officials will confer in Pristina on Wednesday on priority infrastructure projects and regional connections, it was stated at the South East Europe 2020 conference in Belgrade on Monday.

Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport, who announced that he will attend the conference, said that the topics will comprise traffic, regional connections and positioning of the region in pan-European transport networks.

Shuttle diplomacy before a new round of negotiations (Danas)

EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini should visit, end of March, Belgrade and Pristina, circles close to the Serbian government unofficially confirmed to Danas.

The source says that it is about a shuttle diplomacy of the EU which, among other things, will determine the date and theme of a new round of dialogue in Brussels between the premieres of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa. In Brussels yesterday, was not possible to officially confirm this information.

Pristina deciding on the budget for the North or new elections (Politika)

If the Kosovo institutions do not respect the Brussels Agreement, they will open a new crisis, said Ljubomir Maric.

If the Kosovo institutions in the course of the day do not adopt budgets of four municipalities in northern Kosovo for 2015, there are legal possibilities for Pristina to impose provisional measures.

Demolition of the church of Christ the Savior in Pristina would be crime against the civilization and religion (KoSSev)

Participants of at the International Conference dubbed “Human Dignity, Rights and Freedom: Christian Dimension’, which took place three days ago in Slovenia in organization of the International Fund of Orthodox Nations, have forwarded a written appeal to city authorities in Pristina requesting them to give up on intention to demolish the church of Christ the Savior in Pristina down-town.

The Serbian Orthodox Church in Pristina might be demolished (KosovaPress)

The Serbian Orthodox Church "Sveti Nikola", which is built inside the courtyard of the University of Pristina, might be demolished, reports KosovaPress.  The church has been a topic of discussion many times, and often it was said that it should be demolished because the facility was not built legally [with a permission by the Municipality of Pristina]. Fitore Pacolli, Pristina Mayor’s Chief of Staff said: "This facility will be treated in the same way as every other facility, based on the Law for Legalization.

"All Brussels deal commitments must be implemented" (B92, CORD, Tanjug)

BELGRADE -- "All existing commitments" under the Brussels agreement will need to be implemented for chapter 35 in Serbia's EU talks to be opened, says Johannes Hahn.

The EU commissioner for regional policy told the Belgrade-based CorD Magazine that "although some good progress has been made, there is still more to be done."

Dacic to travel to Pristina in late March (B92)

BELGRADE -- Ivica Dacic visited the OSCE Mission in Belgrade on Thursday and announced that he will also visit the missions in Skopje and Podgorica in February.

The Serbian foreign minister and OSCE chairperson-in-office added he would travel to the OSCE mission in Pristina in March.

Speaking about the visit to the OSCE mission in Pristina, the Serbian foreign minister said that the visit "will not have a status character," Tanjug said.