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Mysterious Brussels negotiations (Danas)

Any new agreement between Belgrade and Pristina that would be reached in May could have a positive, but not decisive effect on the decision of EU member states on the opening of the first chapter in the negotiations, said interviewees of Danas close to the government, but also the European institutions. According to them, it is completely unknown what exactly is expected of Belgrade.

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The Serbian list is terminating boycott (Vecernje Novosti)

Serbs from the north of Kosovo should return to the Kosovo institutions since Belgrade received the guarantees at the round of the dialogue in Brussels that the coalition agreement of the Serbian List with Hashim Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and Isa Mustafa’s Democratic League of Kosovo would be respected, Vecernje Novosti reports. After four hour long meeting with Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa on Tuesday in Brussels, Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic received assurances that representatives of the Serbs in the north of Kosovo would be included in all the p

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Brussels’ accord, historical or damaging for Kosovo? (IBNA)

It’s been two years since the signing of the Agreement for the Normalization of Relations between Kosovo and Serbia. The accord was signed on April 19, 2013 in Brussels by the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia, Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic, with the brokerage of the EU head of for foreign affairs, Catherine Ashton. The text contains 15 points.

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Joksimovic: Serbia will not additionally burden the Brussels process (Danas)

"Serbia will not further burden the Brussels-based dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina," estimated Jadranka Joksimovic, Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration, responding to the question whether the announced Kosovo genocide lawsuit affect the talks on the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo.

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Serbs in northern Kosovo are concerned about dissolution of Civil Protection (Politika)

The agreement signed last week in Brussels, according to which the Civil Protection in northern Kosovo will be dissolved till 1 September upset the Serbs north of the Ibar/Iber River. They are particularly concerned about the “mysterious atmosphere” related to the agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, bearing in mind that the Albanian side comes out with the official announcement, while Belgrade is silent. We asked the Serbian government Office for Kosovo and Metohija whether the statements of the Pristina side are correct, i.e.

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Kosovo government: Dialogue’s success depends on implementation of agreements (Gazeta Blic)

The Kosovo government has presented the European Union report of the Brussels dialogue and implementation of agreements covering the period from 1 October 2014 to 20 March 2015. The report, signed by minister without portfolio and Kosovo chief negotiator, Edita Tahiri, contains the Kosovo government’s assessment on the progress and challenges in the process of implementation of agreements for normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia. “The Government of Kosovo wants to emphasize that implementation of agreements are what counts for full success to this dialogue and provides ration

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Edita Tahiri: Serbia has to recognize Kosovo before entering the EU (Danas)

In line with Kosovo laws and the Brussels Agreement, Association of Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo will have neither executive nor monitoring jurisdiction, instead it will have a coordination and advisory role. Serbian side knows this as of the moment of signing the Brussels agreement. I am following the debate between officials in Serbia – I advise them to stay away from illusions and think about what was agreed in Brussels.

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Dusan Spasojevic: Hahim Thaci is cynical (Vecernje Novosti)

By normalization of relations Pristina implies that they will submit a lawsuit for genocide against Serbia, while in the same time they expect from Belgrade to enable it through recognizing  ‘Republic of Kosovo’ at the United Nations. It could be said that Hashim Thaci’s announcement is highly cynical since Kosovo is not entitled formally to submit lawsuit in front of the International Court of Justice since it is not a UN member state.

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