Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said yesterday that the dialogue with Pristina was on resuscitation and that the continuation depends on the "reanimator", that was, those who should inhale a life into it, reported Belgrade based daily Blic.
At a news conference after meeting with Miroslav Lajcak, Dacic said that Pristina had the goal of obstructing dialogue and find a solution, as it assessed that it was not in their interest and the way, they drawn it.
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic told the Serbian state broadcaster on Monday that the next week’s UN Security Council session on Kosovo would be less important than a meeting in Paris with the same issue on the agenda in July “if it happens,” the FoNet news agency reported.
Minister of Administration and Local Government in the Government of Kosovo Adrijana Hodzic expressed concern over the situation that occurred during and after the Kosovo Police action on Tuesday, 28 May, when arrested persons suspected of smuggling, abuse of office and corruption, reports KIM radio, quoting Slobodno Srpski (Free Serbian) show with Hodzic.
KFOR Spokesperson Vincenzo Grasso told Belgrade based daily Danas that there is a lot of discussion about whether an information is given but one can check that during the interview for TV Prva, he said that "everyone was informed", which meant that the information was previously disclosed.
He added that KFOR cannot provide the information on behalf of other and specifies that there was no reason to react to the police action, conducted in order to reduce the crime rate, which is beneficial to everyone.
Statement by Hashim Thaci that Community/Association of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) will not be formed is the best test for the authority of the European Union, said Aleksandar Vulin, Serbian Minister of Defense, reports KIM radio, quoting Belgrade based TV Pink.
According to Vulin, if this statement goes without sanctions, it will mean that the EU is leaving the Western Balkans both in diplomatic and security terms.
The sessions of the municipal assembly Zubin Potok, northern Mitrovica, Zvecan and Leposavic, were cancelled, reports daily Blic, quoting Srna agency. Mayors were supposed to take oath and take over duties in the four Serbian majority municipalities in the North.
"Sessions are cancelled until further notice, and about the reasons for the cancellation will be subsequently informed in the statement," the Serbian List said.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said today to journalists, after visiting the military gymnasium in Belgrade, that the ultimate goal of Pristina is the arrest of Kosovo police commander for northern Kosovo Zeljko Bojic, Serbian media reported.
Vecernje Novosti unofficially learn that in the municipality of Zubin Potok currently the most difficult situation. The barricade, set up by the Serbs in the village of Zupce, was breached.
B92 reports that ROSU members now are heading towards the village of Varage, according to Novosti's sources.
Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric thinks the "Quint's" statement was as "a strange way to congratulate on a clean and convincing victory." The "Quint" countries are the US, Germany, Italy, the UK, and France, and their statement concerned Sunday's local elections in four Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo, won by the Serb List.
Voting in today’s extraordinary elections for mayors is only allowed with Kosovo’s ID cards, the President of the Central Election Commission, Valdete Daka announced at a media press conference, Indeksonline reported. The KoSSev portal received the same information in the field.