On September 4, in Brussels will be continued dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade on integrated border management. Political analyst Dusan Janjic believes that Belgrade and Pristina will have series of meetings, whose results will directly affect the European future of both sides.
“The way in which the EULEX is functioning and the way in which it behaves towards the Serbs is totally incomprehensible and unacceptable. It is far away from the law and justice and looks more like a market,” said Dragan Jablanović, Mayor of Leposavic and member of the management team for the implementation of the Brussels Agreement. He stresses that EULEX is currently untouchable and when it comes to the Serbs in the north, can do whatever, and arrest whomever it wants.
The Government against the announced radical measures, because they endanger interest of our people.
Political representatives of Serbs from the northern Kosovo will decide today whether they will respond to the recent moves and pressures of EULEX with interruption of implementation of the Brussels agreement. Official Belgrade responds that one should not resort to radical measures, because agreements reached with Pristina, with EU as a guarantor, are the best protection of the Serbian interest in the province.
Mayors of Serbian-majority municipalities in northern Kosovo will meet tomorrow in North Mitrovica in order to address the current situation in that part of Kosovo and their positions on EULEX.
In Mitrovica last night, messages urging EULEX to go home were plastered at various locations in the city, including traffic signs. The posters add that the EU mission in Kosovo is "the enemy of the Serbian people."
The labels feature a swastika next to the EULEX logo.
Some of the labels contain the words: "EULEX GO HOME". Aside from Mitrovica, the messages have also been seen at several locations in Zubin Potok.
The perpetrator is not known.
Unfounded accusations and threats about the arrest of Zubin Potok Mayor, Stevan Vulović, seriously endanger the functioning of the municipality and the implementation of the Brussels agreement, was stated from Zubin Potok Municipality.
The British Ambassador to Kosovo, Ian Cliff told Tanjug that part of the Brussels agreement, relating to the recognition of diplomas, does not function and that issue with recognition of diplomas issued by North Mitrovica University should be improved.
Mayor of North Kosovska Mitrovica Goran Rakic has called on the international community to invest maximum efforts into dealing with security issues and providing a safe environment for all the people in Kosovo.
His appeal came after an unexploded hand grenade was found and cleared by the police in North Mitrovica on Saturday, an area where Serbs make up the majority of the population.
BELGRADE - Oliver Ivanovic, one of the Serb leaders in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), against whom a criminal indictment for crimes against ethnic Albanians has been issued recently, said he had been arrested so that his political action could be prevented.
“My arrest had only one goal: to exclude me from political and public life,” Ivanovic said in an interview he gave to Belgrade-based daily Politika in writing on the day before the indictments against him was issued.