Representatives of Serbs in Kosovo institutions are united in the position that their further participation in Kosovo institutions would be pointless, in case the key agreement on the Community / Association of Serb municipalities (ZSO) will not be implemented.
The decision of the Kosovo Constitutional Court regarding the Community/Association of Serbian Municipalities is not good because it is important that the responsibilities undertaken are respected, says the president of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Wolfgang Petritsch.
The way members of the Serb community feel will also be a benchmark of Kosovo's progress, he told Tanjug.
Aleksandar Vucic has told Sputnik that the issue of Pristina's UNESCO membership will not be brought up during the Kosovo talks in Brussels.
The Serbian prime minister stressed that the Serbian delegation previously offered to discuss this issue there, but that this was "rejected, because Pristina's representatives were convinced they'd join UNESCO."
The organization's General Conference earlier in the week rejected the application.
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Serbian delegation intensified diplomatic activities, so that the EU would react to Pristina’s violations of the Brussels agreement. According to sources from the cabinet of Serbian PM, giving up the Brussels dialogue is not an option. Belgrade remains committed to the implementation of the agreements reached in Brussels, but insist that the other side finish commitments from the agreements.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's latest report on Kosovo stressed the importance of establishing the Community / Association of Serb Municipalities (ZSO). Ban welcomed the "continued progress" in Brussels dialogue and agreements that Belgrade and Pristina reached on 25 August, and in particular, he said, the agreement on the establishment of ZSO which, in his opinion, is the "foundation" of the Brussels agreement on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, from April 2013.
Belgrade asked the European Union to press Pristina in order to immediately form the Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO). Otherwise, the continuation of the dialogue will be jeopardized. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has repeated that Serbia is ready for the dialogue, but he admitted that he is tired from the negative events happening in Pristina: “Also, I'm tired from one’s silence. We will allocate the money for the ZSO in the budget for next year, which will always exist in the reserve funds for this purpose.”
In regards to the decision of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo to suspend agreement on the formation of the Community of Serb municipalities (ZSO), Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment, Veterans and Social Policy Aleksandar Vulin said that it will be a test for the EU, adding that Pristina believes that violation of the agreement is allowed.
The President of the Assembly, Kadri Veseli, during a round-table on the current approaches of the government and the opposition, stated today that the behavior of the opposition in the Assembly is a violation of the rules of this institution. “We have laws and Constitution, and also the Assembly has its own rules. The blockade is against all regulations and laws,” Veseli said. According to him, the opposition through its behavior is also blocking the adoption of many laws that are important for the people of Kosovo.
I am very happy because of the great global support we have received since the beginning of this process. We started in January with our positive information campaign, focused on Kosovo's needs related to education, science, climate change, culture.
Janko Veselinovic, a representative of the Movement for the turnaround (Pokret za Preokret), asked Maja Gojkovic, president of the Serbian Parliament to urgently convene a session of the Serbian Parliament in which the MPs will learn the contents of the agreement signed in Brussels on 25 August. The office of Parliament President, however, reminded Veselinovic to the Parliament’s Rules of Procedure.