Serbia and Kosovo should soon discuss the further paying back of a portion of the public external debt of the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, according to the magazine Business and Finance.
The deadline for paying the debt is 2041, and amounts to 347.1 million dollars.
In an interview for Radio Kosova, the Minister of European Integration, Bekim Collaku expressed his confidence that during his mandate, Kosovo will meet the criteria for visa liberalization and will fulfill the obligations towards European integration.
In parallel with implementation of the Brussels Agreement, Serbia will next year propose its solution for the final status of Kosovo and Metohija. President Tomislav Nikolic will soon present the new plan, and then the Government and the National Assembly should correct it and finalize.
The leader of the Serbian List Aleksandar Jablanović announced that Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) will be formed in a few months and that it will have executive powers.
Jablanović did not want to give details about the powers of the Community, adding that Community needs to be established as soon as possible. "The formation of the Community is in the interest of all parties. It is a requirement of the international community, and it emerged from the Brussels Agreement, which was signed also by the Albanian politicians," said Jablanović.
The Constitutional Court rejected the proposal, submitted by Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), for the evaluation of the constitutionality and legality of the Brussels Agreement. In such a way the Court declared itself incompetent for this issue.
“My priority will be implementation of the agreement that Belgrade and Pristina reached in Brussels and the formation of Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO),” says Branimir Stojanovic, new Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo. In a first interview after appointment for the Deputy PM, Stojanović says that the joint participation of all relevant Serbian factors will be the key to success, since so far they functioned separately.
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BELGRADE - Germany will give its consent for the opening of Chapter 35 only after the obligations deriving from the Brussels agreement are fulfilled and after Serbia clearly demonstrates its willingness to continue the dialogue with Pristina, the German Embassy in Belgrade released on Thursday.
The Serbian government has been well-aware of these expectations for a good while now, states the Embassy's release filed to Tanjug.
Chapter 35 in Serbia's negotiations for EU membership "will not be closed until the Serbian Constitution is harmonized with the Brussels agreement (on Kosovo)."
The daily Vecernje Novosti writes that the Constitution's preamble and articles defining the country's territorial arrangements are targeted by this.
Besides the 11 conditions for the opening of the "key chapter, on Kosovo," writes the daily, "Berlin has delivered another demand to Serbia: that our Constitution be aligned with the Brussels agreement!"
After writing of the newspapers, which claim that Serbia actually is requested to recognize Kosovo in order to open the first chapter, Serbian analysts stated that conditions for opening the chapters are already stipulated by the Brussels Agreement, as well as technical agreements previously signed by Borislav Stefanovic and Edita Tahiri.
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic announced, calling on the EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn, that official Belgrade will have to choose between Kosovo and Europe, on the European road.