Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection today on the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared recalls that 20 years after the end of conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia and 15 years after the end of the conflict in Kosovo and Metohija there are no reliable information about the fate of nearly 11,000 people from the former Yugoslavia.
The "Mirdita, dobar dan" ("good day" in Albanian and Serbian) festival was opened in Belgrade on Wednesday afternoon.
The annual presentation of the cultural and social scene of Kosovo is set to run until Saturday.
Organizers have said that their goal was "to bring together two societies aiming to overcome difficult consequences of the past and create conditions for a new start of young generations in the Balkans."
Politika writes in today's edition that Pristina little has implemented from the Brussels Agreement. One of the unfulfilled promises is a licence for Telekom for fixed and mobile telephony on the territory of Kosovo.
This is the reason why Belgrade has not given permission to Austria to apply in the name of Kosovo, for the area code (303), which was part of the agreement between Belgrade and Pristina.
The regime for vehicles with Serbian license plates did not change last night, as they were entering Kosovo after the midnight without test plates, even though Pristina previously announced that it will freeze the agreement on vehicle insurance.
As reported by Tanjug's correspondent from Jarinje, several vehicles with license plates NP, BG, KM smoothly something after midnight, after a routine check by the police at the crossing, have entered the north of Kosovo from the direction of Raska.
The United States welcomed the important agreements reached between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels and lauded the dedication of both sides to this process.
"The agreements finalized today on energy, telecommunications, establishment of an Association/Community of Serbian Municipalities, as well as on the Freedom of Movement/Mitrovica Bridge, will improve the lives of people in both countries," reads a statement issued by the U.S. Department of State on Tuesday.
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.
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.
Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic conferred on Monday with the newly-appointed head of the UN Office in Belgrade Simona-Mirela Miculescu.
During the first meeting, the cooperation with the UN Office in Belgrade so far has been qualified as positive and the officials expressed the belief that it would continue and develop even more intensely in the time to come, the Ministry released.
Next week delegations of Belgrade and Pristina will have the last chance to finalize agreements, on technical level, on telecommunications, energy, as well as to start with talks on Community/Association of Serbian municipalities (ZSO). On 23 June, in a dialogue between two premiers, Vucic and Mustafa will be able to sign and therefore seal the final agreements.
According to Vecernje Novosti, on Monday would be discussed telecommunications, Tuesday and Wednesday are set for the talks on the ZSO, and energy on 18 June.
The next round of Kosovo talks on June 23 "will be crucial for normalization of relations and opening of (EU) negotiating chapters for Serbia this year."
This is what European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister said in Belgrade on Monday.
"In order to open the first chapter this year both sides will have to demonstrate progress and the next round of dialogue in Brussels will be crucial for normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina," he said at the Serbian Economic Summit, according to a Beta agency report.