UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Kosovo authorities and the EU to ensure that a special court will be formed no later than early next year, which would deal with the issue of war crimes allegedly committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in Kosovo in 1999. “I strongly urge the Kosovo authorities, as well as the supporting European Union structures, to ensure that a specialist court is in place by early 2015,” said Ban in its latest report on the situation in Kosovo, which will be presented to the UN Security Council on 25 August.

As with many other issues in relation with the EU and America, the key is that government in Belgrade is determined to persist under heavy pressures from Brussels and Washington, in implementing its policy. If the Serbian government makes it clear that any pressure would be counterproductive and possibly cause consequences to the interests of the EU, especially on Kosovo and Metohija, Serbia could defend the current position - said in an interview Obrad Kesic, head of Office of Republika Srpska in USA, and former political analyst.

In the period between 1980s and 1990s, with the aim to stop the migration and keep the remaining Serbian people in these areas, Serbia built about twenty factories in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, mostly in the municipalities of Leposavic and Zubin Potok. Former conglomerates Lola, Javor, Simpo, Petoletka, VIK Vrsac, Kristal and Gradac also built their factories there. 

As a part of the Ahtisaari plan, two years ago was opened an Administrative office for North Mitrovica, which since then provided municipal services to the citizens of North Mitrovica. After four attempts, at the local elections was elected the Mayor, and shortly thereafter formed the Municipal Assembly.

Why Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic during a lengthy speech on the occasion of the first 100 days of the government, (for which, as "the best location" was selected successful farm of the family Mužlai in Backo Gradište) did not mention the government's activities in Kosovo and Metohija?

In the middle of the week, head of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric was in Pristina, where he met with Serbian liaison officer Dejan Pavicevic, walked around the town, had lunch in the centre, visited the local church Sv. Nikola and visited Gracanica.

Djuric later explained that "his task is to show that this is something normal and that it should be an integral part of the normalization of relations." 

“It is required to create the political basis for the establishment of Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) by adopting the statute, which is only possible through political agreements and negotiations with the political force that will be the backbone of the future government in Pristina. I expect that participation of now legitimately elected representatives of the Serbian people in provincial institutions will contribute to direct talks between us and Kosovo Albanians about the things that were already discussed in Brussels.

President of the Serbian National Council of Northern Kosovo Milan Ivanovic said that senior officials of Serbia and the international community have confirmed to him that there are lists of arrests of Serbs in Kosovo.

"Lists that exist in Kosovo and Metohija for the arrest of Serbs are in the function of the ethnic cleansing Kosovo and Metohija of the remaining Serbs in the north and the creation of a Greater Albania," said Ivanovic to TV Most in Zvecane/Zveqan.

Serbs in northern Kosovo will not allow the Kosovo Privatization Agency (KPA) to sell the property of 11 Serbian companies north of the Ibar River. After trying to sell for the cheap price the Castings factory from Lesak, the workers said that the companies were built by Serbia, in order to stop the migration of Serbian population, so the fate of the companies should be decided by local governments. The companies are located in Zvecan, Zubin Potok and northern Mitrovica.

Minister for Communities and Return in Kosovo Government Dalibor Jevtic said that in the period from January till June 2014 returned 108 returnees. In next twenty days, the houses for 177 IDPs will be finished and as soon they return the total number will be 285 returnees.