In the course of the preparations for a new round of political dialogue representatives of Serbia and Kosovo held separate meetings with the EU officials in Brussels last week, however the date of the next meeting of two prime ministers was not mentioned.
Chairman of the Board of the Serbian Assembly for control of the security services, the former security officer of the Yugoslav Army and member of SNS Momir Stojanovic with 16 other citizens of Gjakova/Djakovica was found on an Interpol "red" arrest warrant on suspicion that in 1999 in Kosovo he has committed crimes against civilians. The EU mission in Pristina yesterday confirmed unofficial claims of the state officials in Belgrade that the request for an arrest warrant was filed by EULEX.
Niš - In the area of Nis Police Department, from 2010 to the end of last year, 1,086 persons from Kosovo have registered residence, and 985 have reported a temporary residence, said the Nis Police Department.
The recent agreement between Belgrade and Pristina on the judiciary shall be implemented in accordance with the First Agreement on normalization of relations, in the legal framework of Kosovo. The question, before whom the Serbian judges would take an oath, remained without answer. Belgrade is now working on it and that no Serb judges cannot be appointed without the consent of the Serbian side, said yesterday the Minister of Justice Nikola Selakovic, responding to questions from members of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija of the Serbian Parliament.
Is Kosovo, which today marks the seventh anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence, closer to the "chair" in the UN, bearing in mind the results of the Brussels talks, announced legally binding agreement between Belgrade and Pristina and the number of 96 countries that recognized Kosovo.
The Government of Serbia adopted yesterday report on the agreement on the judiciary, which Belgrade and Pristina initialled in Brussels earlier this week. The Government of Serbia unofficially announces that the Serbian officials would talk with employees in the Serbian judiciary in northern Kosovo on the implementation of the agreement, which provides their integration into Kosovo's judicial and legal system.
Serbia will strengthen the control of requests for the Serbian passports, particularly of those people who are trying to reach foreign countries with Serbian passports, learned Danas in the Government of Serbia. As said, Serbia probably will not issue the passport to all Albanians from Kosovo who request it. As explained, the reason for this is that if the Albanians would massively leave the country with the Serbian passports might be compromised visa liberalization of Serbia.
The upper house of Germany’s parliament, the Bundesrat, called for an early opening of the first chapter in the negotiations on Serbia's membership in the EU without direct conditionality with the process progress in resolving the issue of Kosovo, according to a document in which Danas had access to.
Rados Djurovic, executive director of the Centre for the protection and assistance of the asylum seekers, explained that the stay of people from Kosovo is regulated by the decree of the Serbian government from 2011. “On the basis of this regulation Kosovo citizens who do not have Serbian documents when crossing the administrative line receive a certificate that allows them to stay in the territory of Serbia 15 days. Therefore, people who move through Serbia towards the EU are not here irregularly.
The most important political and security challenge for Serbia is the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, Ljubisa Dikovic has said.
The Serbian Army (VS) chief told the Belgrade-based Danas newspaper that Serbia is, at the moment, not under military threat.
"The greatest security threats are ethnic and religious extremism, international networks of organized crime and illegal migration of people motivated by economic, political and security problems. Another risk is the participation of citizens of Balkan states in armed conflicts in the Middle East," Dikovic said.