Serb members of the Kosovo Assembly did not participate at the September 1 session that was scheduled to vote on the border demarcation agreement between Kosovo and Montenegro. Following the Serb boycott, the ruling coalition was forced to remove the border deal from the assembly’s agenda. Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said a broad-based roundtable would be organised with political parties to discuss the border deal with Montenegro, but the meeting has yet to take place.

The Serbian List leader, Slavko Simić, during the Kosovo Assembly session today said that the “incident” that occurred last night in Gracanica where Kosovo Police stopped the director of the Office for Kosovo in the Serbian Government, Marko Đuric, sends a bad message for Serbs in Kosovo. Simić also mentioned cases of Mushtisht and Novobërdë/Novo Brdo, saying it is a violation of human rights to prevent Serbs to return to their homes. He also called for a faster establishment of the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities.

Slavko Simic, head of the Serbian List parliamentary group, told the news agency that Serbian List MPs will not attend today’s session of the Kosovo Assembly that is expected to vote on the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. “We have decided not to attend the session because of the recent security situation and also because of the ongoing protest,” Simic said. The news agency notes that without the votes of the Serbian List, the border agreement cannot be ratified.

The leader of the Serbian List, Slavko Simić, has strongly condemned the attempt of turning down the minaret of the mosque in village Donje Velikance.

The leader of the Serbian List, Slavko Simić, today confirmed that his party will participate on the debate on border-demarcation with Montenegro to be held on 3 August. Simić said he supports the public debate and hopes that a concrete solution will come out from the debate. “It should be a technical solution through negotiations… The best way to confront the public is with all the facts and to find a pragmatic solution,” he said.

The leader of the Serbian List, Slavko Simić, accompanied by the chairperson of the Union of Associations of Displaced Persons, Milenko Jovanović, has visited displaced families in Sutomore and Podgorica in Montenegro and acquainted himself with living conditions of those who found shelter in Montenegro after leaving Kosovo in 1999.

"CI SDP is no longer a political party as it was, at the time when Mr Oliver Ivanović led it. We, municipal councillors, are not the only people who left the party. Huge numbers of people who had been on the list for councillors and other prominent members also abandoned the party, but the public still does not know it,” said Igor Simić, former member of the CI SDP.  When asked who is to blame, Simić says that he cannot talk individually, because those are "some internal things."

UK Ambassador to Pristina, Ruairi O'Connell and President of the Serbian List, Slavko Simić discussed the current issues and problems in Kosovo.

The Assosiation/Community of Serb municipalities does not represent a threat and implementation of the agreements is of general interest, they agreed.

The leader of the Serbian List Slavko Simić said that Serbian elections will be organized this year in Kosovo and Metohija, like in 2012 and 2014.

Reflecting on the statement of the Kosovo minister without portfolio Edita Tahiri that Serbian elections won’t take place in Kosovo, Simić said that elections in Kosovo have been facilitated by the OSCE in the past and that this was not discussed with Albanian political leaders.

“The MPs of the Serbian List did not vote for the candidate for president of Kosovo, but only participated in the Parliament session during which the president was elected, because we want to behave responsibly and protect our people,” said Slavko Simic, the president of the Serbian List.