The laws on Trepča and strategic investments violate many articles of the Kosovo constitution and therefore one should expect the court to show impartiality and to repeal the laws, says the head of the parliamentary group of the Serbian List Slavko Simić.
The Serbian government on Tuesday decided to annul all the legal consequences of acts and actions by the interim self-government institutions in Pristina regarding the factual and legal position of the Trepca mining complex, PM Aleksandar Vucic said.
“We were compelled to make such a decision as we want Trepca to continue to operate,” he told a press conference.
Trepca is vital for the survival of nothern Kosovo-Metohija, Vucic noted.
The Serbian government has sent a letter to Brussels explaining all the harmful consequences of the Kosovo Assembly decision on the Trepca mining complex, Politika reports.
It was the first step relying on legal and political instruments and democratic, parliamentary and extra-parliamentary methods aimed at protecting Serbia's property in Kosovo, the daily reported.
The first indictments for war crimes of the KLA likely to be raised by year-end, writes daily Politika.
According to unofficial information of the Fund for Humanitarian Law, Politika writes, so far have been prepared indictments against eight persons.
The views of the citizens in the north of Kosovo are divided when it comes to the Brussels dialogue and the most contradictions about the question of the formation of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities (ZSO), these are the results of the opinion poll, conducted by several portals and several non-governmental organizations under the auspices of the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society.
The last round of talks between Belgrade and Pristina at the expert level, which was completed early this morning after 19 hours of negotiations, was a good and positive for the interests of Belgrade, says Marko Đurić, the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.
The UN mission in Kosovo rejects the allegations of the Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj, that UNMIK is not desirable in Kosovo and that its mandate was extended because of Russia, which opposes the change of resolution 1244 of the Security Council of the United Nations.
UNMIK spokesman Jan Malekzade told the TV channel Tribuna that no country alone can decide on the mandate of UNMIK and its activities and that it is the decision of the Security Council.
The Appellate Court in Pristina still did not respond to the appeal of lawyers, submitted on the first instance verdict, and according to which Oliver Ivanović, leader of the Civic Initiative Sloboda Demokratija Pravda (CI SDP), was sentenced to nine years in prison. As stated by Ivanović’s sister Nataša Ilić, an answer can be expected at the earliest in autumn, adding that everybody expects acquittal. She added that the legal team from Mitrovica which is representing Ivanović has the legal help of recognized lawyers from Belgrade and abroad.
The announcement of Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa that he would visit soon Leposavić/Leposaviq, and then the rest northern Serbian municipalities, thus becoming the first head of government in Pristina who visited the north, is not acceptable, and has been sent on his own initiative. This is a message of the representatives of the majority Serbian local governments with whom daily Politika has talked yesterday.
According to the Brussels agreement, Pristina was obliged to approve the Statute of the Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (A/CSM) until 25 December last year. However, so far, was not written even single letter of the Statute. From the last meeting between Vučić and Mustafa held in January, Serbs from Kosovo are not closer to the A/CSM even for a millimetre. Meanwhile Pristina, step by step, fortify the self-proclaimed independence. Kosovo was admitted in UEFA, FIFA, and is on the way to receive visa free regime with EU.