The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini in an interview to the European Western Balkans Portal spoke about the topics such as “Berlin Process,” new phase in a dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Bosnia and Hercegovina application for the EU membership and important reforms in the Western Balkans.
Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivica Dacic stated Serbia is strategically oriented towards the European integration, dialogue and reconciliation, Serbian media reported.
Authorities in Belgrade and Pristina must undertake stronger efforts to shed light on the destiny of the missing persons during the war in Kosovo, International Committee of the Red Cross Committee warned at a round-table discussion in Geneva.
Former the EU Envoy for Kosovo, Wolfgang Petritsch considers Kosovo, at the moment, goes through difficult phase and it is necessary to continue the dialogue of Belgrade and Pristina at the highest level.
Petritsch stated to Tanjug that Kosovo economically does not progress much, it faces huge unemployment rate in particular among young population, and it represents a serious problem.
He also requested the swift formation of the Community of the Serb Municipalities, as agreed during the dialogue process.
The Missing persons’ resource center appealed to Belgrade and Pristina as well as to the international community to nominate senior representatives in order to bring the suffering of the missing persons’ families to an end.
The representative of this center, Bajram Çerkini, said that they urge Pristina and Belgrade to use the information that they possess in order to enlighten the fate of the missing.
Unlike the last parliamentary elections three years ago, when the political representatives of the Serbs appeared jointly in elections, in the scheduled elections on June 11, will participate six Serbian lists, or five political parties and one coalition. Does this means that the Serbs are no longer united, or their separate functioning is going to have a greater political impact?
Analyst from Kosovo Nexhmedin Spahiu says that threats of Edi Rama and Hashim Thaçi to the EU on the unification of Albania and Kosovo are nonsense.
Spahiu said that the eventual unification of Kosovo and Albania cannot jeopardize FYROM or Montenegro, let alone Serbia, and that statements of these two officials were funny, he also said that the threat to EU on unification can only make harm to the people of Kosovo and Albania.
Kosovo's Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj said in Zagreb that the Kosovo government is committed to setting up a community of municipalities with Serbian majority (ZSO) but the mere fact that Serb political representatives did not come to the two meetings, shows that Belgrade has no political will for that to happen.
Rapporteur for Serbia and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, David McAllister, said that Belgrade and Pristina are expected to remain committed to dialogue. McAllister pointed out that Belgrade and Pristina are expected not to play "game" of mutual accusations and to refrain from any action that would jeopardize the progress achieved so far in the process.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday in Davos, Switzerland that "peace and stability have the greatest importance."
In this regard, Vucic added, he was "also ready to establish a hotline between Belgrade - Pristina.
Vucic told TV Pink that he had "many important discussion for Serbia at the World Economic Forum," and underlined that he believes "we will have the strength to calm down certain things - even those that were under no influence of ours whatsoever."