Kosovo President Hashim Thaci in an interview for Belgrade based daily Danas says that as leaders they are responsible for the well-being of our children and future generations, when talking about Brussels based negotiation, and he thinks that President Vucic and himself were willing to prevent the past from blocking the future or endanger peace in the region in the next five or 50 years.
Professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Dragan Djukanovic, told national broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that he believes that the next round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will be at the beginning of September, and that by then Pristina must give some outlines of the ZSO Statute.
Dragan Djukanovic said visiting the RTS News that a more serious continuation of the dialogue will not happen until the adoption of the final version of the ZSO Statute.
EC spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic says the EU expects all agreements reached within the Kosovo dialogue to be implemented "without delay."
"Kosovo gave the mandate to the Steering Team to draft the statute of the Community, that is, the Association (of Serb Municipalities, ZSO), which is in progress and will take time," Kocijancic told Tanjug on Wednesday.
The Management Team for the establishment of the Association/Community of Serbian Municipalities, performs its task of preparation of the Statute of the ZSO in
line with its mandate, entrusted through the Brussels agreements and the draft text will be presented, as it was foreseen, in Brussels, to the implementation boards of Belgrade and Pristina, and then within the high-level dialogue, press release of the Management Team reads.
The proposal of the Statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) should be presented on the 4th of August in Brussels. That deadline was given to Pristina when the Serbs, five years after the signing of the Brussels Agreement, announced that they would form the Community themselves, reports Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).
According to the deadline set by the European Union, the Draft Statute should be presented in Brussels on 4 August, but a new meeting of technical teams at the EU headquarters has not yet been scheduled, or the continuation of dialogue at the highest political level, Vecernje Novosti writes today.
Officials in the European Union believe that changing the format of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue would not speed up the settlement of the normalization of the relations of the two sides and would only take the power away; and instead of dealing with the essence, the engagement of the negotiators, at least for some time, would be about who could be involved in the dialogue, reports today N1 quoting Beta agency.
The spokesperson of the Serbian List Igor Simic told Kontakt plus radio that the current security situation in Kosovo is worrying. He welcomed the continuation of the dialogue in Brussels but assess as the failure of non-acceptance of the document by the Government of Kosovo because it was written in the Cyrillic alphabet. He says this was another indicator of the attitude of Kosovo institutions towards Serb representatives.
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj confirmed that the transcript of the meeting of Kosovo Minister Ivan Todosijevic with the representatives of the Working Group for the drafting of the Statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) was returned to the Ministry of Administration and Local Self-Government of Kosovo because the document sent to the government was written in Cyrillic.
The EU Council of Ministers hails Serbia's progress in membership negotiations, according to a draft resolution from an EU foreign ministers' meeting.