Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director, Marko Djuric told RTS that Pristina’s refusal to continue dialogue is dangerous and irresponsible as well as negation of accepted obligations.
The process intended to normalize Belgrade-Pristina relations serves only the political elites and is not leading to improvements in the lives of ordinary citizens, the participants in a debate on Kosovo and Serbia said.
“Mirdita” festival is approaching, while tensions are already running high. Serbian Radical Party announced they would not allow festival, while from Kosovo say they were not allowed to enter flags to the central Serbia, B92 reported.
Comprehensive agreement with Albanians means one thing only, giving Kosovo a seat in the UN, the leader of Peoples’ Party Vuk Jeremic told BETA news agency.
Serbia’s Interior Ministry (MUP) said on Tuesday they had banned rallies that the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) planned during the “Mirëdita, dobar dan” festival, but the radicals said they would hold it, reports regional broadcaster N1.
Vojislav Seselj’s party scheduled the gatherings for May 30 and 31 and June 1, in central Belgrade, to protest the festival that has been held since 2014, with an aim to get Pristina and Belgrade closer to each other by getting to know their respective cultures better.
The party of the assassinated Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic, the Civic Initiative SDP, urged today all investigative services and especially the EULEX, to intensify the probe into the January 16 murder.
As daily earlier reported, Pristina’s plan to take over control of the administrative crossing points in the north of Kosovo, supported by NATO allies, could “inflame” entire region and Belgrade through unofficial channels has warned important European stakeholders of danger and domino effects of such scenario.
Diplomatic sources of Danas and international relations experts do not exclude completely the possibility of Serbia changing the foreign policy course, but they assess that Belgrade will endeavour in maintaining the current position of balancing between the West and Russia.
According to interlocutors of Danas, any changes in foreign policy will depend largely on the next phase of resolving the Kosovo issue.
Serbia will cooperate with the Special Court for KLA crimes, and it would be good if there are even theoretic chances that some of the criminals are punished, however, we should not have unrealistic expectations, Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric said speaking for the RTS news edition.