Deadline for the text of the statute of the Community/Association of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) is four months, as agreed in Brussels; Vecernje Novosti reported that it should be ready much earlier.  

Serbia will have a great help of China in the modernization of country and official Beijing will consider more favorable conditions for financing the railway project Belgrade – Budapest. In addition Beijing will support all other Serbian projects – are the results of the visit of President Tomislav Nikolic to the second economy of the world.

“Community/ Association of Serbian municipalities will be the foundation of survival of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, because for the first time all areas with Serbian majority will be united and will act uniquely. There will be no division on areas south and north of the Ibar/Iber River.” This is how Goran Rakic, Mayor of Mitrovica North explains his view of the agreement on the Community/ Association of Serbian municipalities (ZSO), reached in Brussels.

What is behind the frequent efforts on snatching Serbian Orthodox Church’s (SPC) temples and property in eparchies which remained out of Serbia? They want to establish new state churches on our heritage in many states.

The Vatican has in the past shown "appropriate responsibility" when it comes to concerns over the fate of Christian heritage in Kosovo.

This is what Serbia's UNESCO ambassador Darko Tanaskovic told the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti, adding, "It would of course be very valuable if they shared that concern as actively as possible with Catholics around the world."

Tanaskovic was asked whether the Catholic Church "could stand in defense of the Serb (Orthodox) heritage in Kosovo and Metohija as Christian heritage."

The official request of Kosovo for the UNESCO membership still didn’t arrive in this organization was stated from the Public Relation Service of this UN organization.

Though Thaci wrote on 16 July on his Facebook profile that Pristina applied for membership, the first step towards the formal membership still has not been submitted. So far, Thaci refused to answer to the question whether the request was signed by the President Jahjaga or it was submitted by UNMIK.

Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has said that his country will do everything in its power to ensure that Serbia opens the first negotiation chapters along the path toward full membership in the bloc during its EU presidency.

Our presidency will encourage the opening of negotiation chapters with Serbia as soon as requirements are met, Asselborn said for Wednesday's issue of Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti, underlining that the intention is that this should happen this year, depending on an extent to which Serbia is capable of fulfilling the criteria.

Serbian Minister for Education Srdjan Verbić and representatives of four representative unions have negotiated about lay-offs in the education sector.

Around 700 teachers who used to work in Kosovo will most probably be offered indemnity payments. These teachers are not working at all for years and their salaries are around RSD 8.000, while state is paying for their social and health insurance.

The Kosovo assembly has not accepted a proposal to consider a draft resolution on alleged genocide by Yugoslav army and police forces against ethnic Albanians.

45 deputies on Monday voted in favour of including the draft in the agenda, 55 were against, while five abstained.

The initiative to adopt such a resolution came from the Self-Determination Movement, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, and the Initiative for the Future of Kosovo.

They believe that members of Serb security forces committed genocide against Albanians in the province during the last war.

UNESCO Secretariat didn’t receive the Kosovo application to become a member of this UN Organization, learned Novosti in Paris. On the other side Pristina announced that it sent application a week ago.

Due to this intention of Kosovo officials, Serbian diplomacy is “in action”. As stated, it is important to provide that countries, which are abstained  to support Pristina, vote against that proposal.  If countries would remain abstained, it would indirectly pave the way to the Kosovo membership in the UNESCO.