In coming days, President Tomislav Nikolic should send the draft platform on Kosovo to Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, and according to our information it will happen before his departure to Moscow. After discussion in the government, possibly amended platform will be sent to the Assembly for the further approval. However, it is questionable if platform will receive the support of opposition.
“I am afraid that the issue of independent Kosovo will be a condition for Serbia’s membership in the European Union. This request is more and more dominant opinion and Serbia must immediately position itself with a new state platform,” said President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic, adding that no government would recognize secession of the southern province.
Based on which terms you claim that signing Kosovo independence will be the final Brussels condition?
Serbs expect from Pristina to initiate as soon as possible the formation of working groups that will deal with the Association/Community of Serbian Municipalities (ZSO).
The first test of the relations between the coalition partners towards the Serbian list will be the establishment of working groups, which should lay the foundation for the formation of ZSO.
Czech President Milos Zeman says that he personally does not recognize Kosovo as independent and therefore is not sending an ambassador to Pristina.
When a reporter for the Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti noted his "well-known position that Kosovo is ruled by a mafia regime financed by drug trafficking," Zeman stated that he "said it many times publicly that Hashim Thaci is a war criminal".
First test for relation of coalition partners towards the MPs from the Serbian list, which continued its work in Kosovo institutions after two months of boycott, will be creation of the working groups for the establishment of the foundations for the Community/Association of the Serb municipalities.
After several days of examinations at one location near the Koprivnička River, in the village Kozarevo near Novi Pazar, the investigators engaged by the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution and the Office of Missing Persons in Pristina did not find any mass grave, or remains of the bodies of buried Albanians. Upon completion of investigation of the terrain, the crew of investigators with machines left the site.
President Tomislav Nikolic has said that he is "not very optimistic" after his talks with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Belgrade Tuesday.
Nikolic explained this was the case "because he did not hear from Steinmeier that the chapters in the negotiations with the EU will be opened this year."
"I cannot say that Mr. Steinmeier told me clearly that the chapters will open by the end of the year. True, he said that he thought conditions would be there for that during the year," Nikolic told the daily Vecernje Novosti on Wednesday.
MP of the Self-determination movement in the Kosovo Assembly, Ilir Deda said that the EU was not capable to deal with the Western Balkans, although it should be the priority.
Ilir Deda said to Tanjug that the situation in Kosovo was as in all other parts of the Western Balkans, with great economic and social problems and with a lack of real European perspective.
The deadline for the submission of the requests for the legalization of the illegally built facilities in Kosovo has been extended till 11 June, and among dozens of thousands of claimants is a number of Serbs.
The risk of contagion in Kosovska Mitrovica has been increased due to illegal landfill, which is located on the outskirts of the city, and where is stored complete municipal waste, including medical.
Dr Aleksandar Ćorac said that it is difficult to say whether any kind of contagion is threatening to the citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica, but as he said ‘the risk of contagion is certainly increased.’ “This is not only about the possibility for the development of the diseases. Unsanitary, unplanned landfills are multiple sources of environmental risks,” he said.