A decision on a snap parliamentary election does not depend on leaders of the EU, but solely on Serbian politicians, and the EU is convinced that Serbia will stay the reform course and remain committed to resolving the Kosovo issue, EU Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy Johannes Hahn says.

In an interview to Belgrade-based daily Danas, Hahn says that he will propose opening an initial negotiation chapter in late 2015, noting that Serbia has no yet finished work on Chapters 23 and 24.

In accordance with the basic principles and main elements for the formation of the Community/Association of Serbian municipalities in Kosovo, which Belgrade and Pristina agreed two days ago in Brussels, the statute of the ZSO should be completed until 25 December 2015, Danas learns unofficially in diplomatic sources in Brussels.

The Serbian government and the Ministry of Culture and Information resolutely oppose admitting Kosovo to UNESCO, Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac has said in a letter sent to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and over 190 culture ministers across the world.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will ask the participants of Vienna summit on the Western Balkans to support currently the most important joint infrastructure project -the highway Nis-Pristina-Durres, was said today in the Cabinet of Prime Minister of Serbia. In PM delegation will be also Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and Minister of Economy, Dusan Vujovic.

Afghanistan now joined Denmark, which for 16 years of a UN protectorate in Kosovo had two heads of UNMIK. By the decision of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the outgoing UNMIK chief Farid Zarif will be replaced by his compatriot Zahir Tanin, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in the world organization. The ninth head of the UN Mission in Kosovo should take office on August 31.

- The Serbian government expects of the European officials at the Summit on the Western Balkans, which is held on 27 August in Vienna, to disclose that joint projects of Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina have entered the European transport network, or that the European Union accepted these projects as priorities.

“I believe that Kosovo will use possible membership in Interpol simply to raise false indictments against citizens of Serbia who are in high positions, in order to politically balance indictments against their politicians,” said Darko Trifunovic, secretary of the Institute for Security Studies.   He illustrated this thesis by the example of Momir Stojanovic, former head of the VBA (Military Security Agency), and current MP in the parliament, against whom Interpol issued an arrest warrant in February this year.

Security Council is preparing a new reorganization of the UN Mission in Kosovo

“The main topic of the briefing on UNMIK, in the Security Council on 21 August, will be the reorganization and reduction of the UN mission in Kosovo. Format of UNMIK should be adapted to the results of the Brussels agreement on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina,” said political analyst Dusan Janjic.

The destiny of the direct application of Pristina for UNESCO membership to the Director-General of UNESCO, after failed attempt through UNMIK and UN, is uncertain for the time being. The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, who already, learned the paper unofficially, carried out consultations with the UN and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, will take decision on the matter.

Any new evidence or progress made in the investigation into the murder of my brothers would be useful, but we insist that any new evidence or progress be shared fully and directly with the FBI, said Fatos Bytyqi.

Serbia's war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said on Monday that progress has been made in the investigation into the murder of the three Bytyqi brothers.