Austria's Ambassador to Kosovo, Johann Brieger, in an interview with Radio Kosova said that Austria supports Kosovo’s integration process. He said that the support will be given to Kosovo also during the Western Balkans Summit to be held in Vienna.
A new round of technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will begin in Brussels today.
According to earlier announcements, the topics of discussion should be the community/association of Serbian municipalities (ZSO), energy, telecommunications and traffic on the bridge over the Ibar River in Mitrovica.
Political round of talks with the participation of prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa is scheduled for Tuesday, August 25.
Serbia is committed to the policy which will bring stability to the Western Balkans, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in the talks with Head of the EU Delegation in Serbia Michael Davenport on Monday.
Vucic and Davenport discussed the Tuesday continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in Brussels, the situation in the region and migrant tide, the Serbian government Office for cooperation with the media released.
The coordinator of the Steering Team for the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities (A/CSM) Ljubomir Maric said to RTS that he expects the new round of the dialogue in Brussels to result with decision on creation of the A/CSM. Maric added that Belgrade has received signals that there could be provoking statements coming from Kosovo Albanian leaders.
Kosovo minister without portfolio and chief negotiator in talks with Belgrade, Edita Tahiri, announced that the new round of talks will take place on 24 and 25 August in Brussels and will tackle Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities, Iber bridge barricade and obstacles Serbia is presenting to implementation of agreement on energy. Tahiri said agreement of 13 April 2013 stipulates that Serbia should not hinder Kosovo in international integration and, as a result, in international institutions such as UNESCO.
Adriatik Kelmendi considers that the agreement for the free movement between Pristina and Belgrade, is not reciprocal. He notes that despite the fact that the agreement was a necessity, it in fact “only mended the problem, without resolving it. Seeing the reactions and Serbia’s damage caused to Kosovo, and reach of the two agreements for free movement without resolving the problem, Minister Tahiri stated in half voice that Serbia should accept Kosovo license plates, or Kosovo party would in a certain time implement the reciprocal measures.
The Mayors of ten Serb-majority Municipalities in Kosovo sent a request to the Governments of Kosovo and Serbia that at the next meeting in Brussels to reach agreement on the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb-majority Municipalities.
The Brussels Based correspondent of this daily, Augustin Palokaj, numbers the senior political figures of Kosovo, their assistants and the technical teams that are involved in the dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade, stressing that their frequent traveling to Brussels costs a fortune to Kosovo. “The problem with this dialogue stands in the fact that it has started with many obscurities and propaganda, without verifying mechanisms of what should implement, and it will continue like this without a set date for its conclusion,” writes Palokaj.
The head of the Kosovo delegation in Pristina – Belgrade talks for vehicle insurance policies, Rrahim Pacolli, said today that there has been a misunderstanding by the public opinion regarding this issue. “The TPL+ insurance policy covers damages to third parties outside the territory of Kosovo in FYROM, Albania and/or Serbia. Our statistics show that a large proportion of insured persons already have TPL+, which means that even before the agreement with Serbia, it has been mandatory to have TPL+ to travel to neighboring states such as. FYROM.
Rrahim Pacolli, the head of the Kosovo delegation for talks on vehicle insurance, said today he was confident that the agreement on vehicle insurance with Serbia will start being implemented tomorrow. Pacolli told the news site that the Kosovar side has made all necessary preparations. Asked if Serbia will delay the implementation of the agreement again, Pacolli said, “Any party that will fail to implement the agreement will be penalized by the European Union”.