The Management Team for the drafting the Statute of the Community/Association of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) held on Monday its first meeting with legal experts in local self-government, reported Serbian media. On Monday, the Team members met the Mayors of northern municipalities and Dean of the Law faculty of University of Pristina based in North Mitrovica, Serbian media reported.

These experts were “delegated” by the four northern municipalities and the Faculty of Law in North Mitrovica.

Former Romanian President Traian Bssescu says that Bucharest is under pressure from Germany to recognize Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence, reports Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti.

Basescu said in a statement to Romanian television B1 that Germany was pressing all five EU countries that did not recognize Kosovo's independence to do so.

Romania, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Slovakia were under pressure to take such a step, specified Basescu, the daily reported.

Serbian ministers were instructed to focus on the Kosovo problem every time they speak to their foreign counterparts, especially with those representing countries that are believed to be willing to withdraw their recognition of Kosovo, according to Vecernje Novosti.

The measure is part of Serbia’s diplomatic offensive aimed at decreasing the number of countries that recognize Kosovo’s independence.

Spokesman of the Serbian List Igor Simic assesses as insinuations the Pristina's media reports that the Serbian List did not left the government finally.

- Our ministers are in resignation, deputies in the opposition. The Serbian list is therefore in the opposition - Simic claims in a statement for the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti, reminding that the Serbian List announced the abandonment of Kosovo institutions after the arrest of Marko Djuric, director of the Office for KiM, on 23rd March in North Mitrovica.

Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic commented on the latest platform from Pristina to say he expects the European Union to "declare itself."

In the platform on what they called "the final phase of the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue" Pristina authorities state that the dialogue's goal is Kosovo's membership in the UN and "mutual recognition."

The Serbian List announces that the delegation would have talks with the Serbian Diaspora and the Director of the Austrian Development Agency and discuss about possibilities of investment in the Serb majority areas in Kosovo, reports Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti.

Today's edition of the Vecernje Novosti daily reports that Serbia has already begun diplomatic activities before the General Assembly of Interpol, which will be held in November in the United Arab Emirates. The activities are aimed at preventing Kosovo's admission to that organization, and as the daily reports, Moscow is the main partner of Belgrade. Moscow will lobby in Lyon, at the headquarters of this organization, for Kosovo not to be found on the final agenda of the Assembly, to be determined in autumn.

Serbian Justice Minister Nela Kuburovic expressed her fear that the KLA Special War Crimes Tribunal, on which the EU insists, would remain "a dead letter on paper", reports Serbian media.

"I am not sure how much that court will come to life at all, because for so long the indictments have been announced, but nothing is happening," Kuburovic told Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti, reports KIM Radio.

Russia is ready to provide Serbian partners with support in defending legitimate national interests in relation to Kosovo, primarily in international structures, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a letter to Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic, reports Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti.

Spokesman for the Bulgarian EU presidency Genoveva Chervenakova says to Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti that Bulgaria will fully respect the status neutrality of Kosovo at the EU-Western Balkans summit to be organized in May.