United States Secretary of State John Kerry sent a letter on behalf of U.S. President Barack Obama to the President of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolic, saying that the U.S.-Serbia relations are growing stronger and following an upward trend.
The U.S. agrees with President Nikolic's assessment that the role of Serbia, both regionally and globally, has changed significantly over the past years.
Kosovo government inter-ministerial group decided to continue with the concession for the Ski-Center ‘Brezovica’ and to sign a contract with the French consortium “Brezovica Resort”. However, contract would not come into effect unless investor doesn’t provide bank guarantees and until final decision over certain issues is not confirmed by the local self-government in Štrpce/Shtërpcë.
Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić objected today to announced creation of army of Kosovo and downsizing of KFOR, and pointed that it would not serve the peace and stability, and protection of Serbs in the province.
Politically, establishment of the community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo is an obligation under the Brussels Agreement and it is advocated by Belgrade and the representatives of the Srpska list in the province, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, said Wednesday.
The Brussels Agreement is not a "buffet" where everyone can take what suits them, Djuric said at a conference on respect of European human rights conventions in Kosovo, organised by the Strasbourg House of Justice.
High Representative of the European Union, Federica Mogherini on Thursday will be in Pristina and on Friday in Belgrade. She will encourage dialogue between the two sides in a meeting with the heads of government of Serbia and Kosovo, and see how to overcome the stalemate over the statute of the Association/Community of Serbian municipalities.
Municipal authorities in Vushtrri/Vucitrn recently demolished two houses owned by Serbs and have damaged one. Homeowners say that they have not been previously informed, that they did not give consent, and that it is a systematic persecution of Serbs from the city, not the communal problems.
House of Dragisa Murganic was demolished to the ground, and the family house Staletovic next to it.
The director of the Serbian Government’s Public Information Office Milivoje Mihajlovic stated today that Pogrom on 17 March 2004 was an instrument of ethnic cleansing, but that 11 years later Serbia has the biggest influence in Kosovo as of 1999, and that Kosovo Serbs are now more safe than they were at that time.
Mayor of Mitrovica North, Goran Rakic called the Privatisation Agency of Kosovo to suspend the sale of premises, which belong to the company LUX in this city.
Privatisation Agency of Kosovo informed the municipality on March 9 that by the end of this month the privatization tender would be announced for nine premises of this company, increasing the number of the business premises to around 30, for the so-called privatization, in the last 15 days.
Shops are located in the central places in Mitrovica.
Integration of Serbian police officers into Kosovo Police will be discussed at the meeting with the representatives of the Kosovo Police, announced Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia Nebojsa Stefanovic.
At the session of the Serbian parliament’s committee for internal affairs Stefanovic said that the meeting will also be used for discussing the range of other security issues in relation to security of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, carried Tanjug.
The Deputy Head of UNMIK, Jennifer Brush said today that Kosovo without a specific status is not good for the people who live in it, whether Albanians are in question or non-Albanians.
Brush said in an interview in the program "Slobodni Srpski" (Free Serbian), that she hoped that the dialogue in Brussels would help to come to the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo in order to live normally.