The Director of the Office for Kosovo at the Serbian Government, Marko Djuric, will visit today Leposavic with the permission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo.
He will be visiting the flotation of Trepca combine in Leposavic.
Bashmir Xhemaj, adviser to Minister Enver Hoxhaj, announced the news about the visit.
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić met with Peter Due Director for Asia, Middle East, Europe and Latin America in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations, and informed him about the dialogue and the latest moves of Pristina.
Đurić said that Belgrade wants stability in the Serb-Albanian relations, because, as he said, it is the only guarantee of long-term survival of the Serbian people in the province.
The rate of sustainable return of internally displaced persons to Kosovo-Metohija is the lowest among all post-conflict regions around the world, amounting to a mere 1.9 pct, the head of the government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric said Monday.
At a meeting with Nancy Izzo Jackson, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the US Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Djuric expressed regret over a failure to include the return of IDPs in the agenda of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in Brussels.
Belgrade will make maximum efforts in its dialogue Pristina - "but we will not give Serbia away - not for anything," SPS leader Ivica Dacic has said.
Dacic, who serves as the first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, spoke at a party event on Sunday, noting that there was "absolute agreement" with PM Aleksandar Vucic when it comes to this policy.
Ivica Dacic on Friday denied the claims that Serbia failed to open any new EU accession negotiations chapters in October because of Russia.
The foreign minister added that new chapters will be opened "when there has been is progress in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue."
As many as one third of EU members are blocking the continuation of the procedures for the opening of Chapter 31 in Serbia's accession negotiations.
The Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti writes this on Thursday.
Chapter 31 relates to foreign policy and security, and taking the leading role among those blocking it are Germany, Great Britain and the countries of the former Warsaw Pact - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania, said the article.
Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, reported today to the Kosovo Assembly Commission for Foreign Affairs.
Tahiri assessed that establishment of the relations between Kosovo and Serbia is conditioned by recognition of Kosovo state by Serbia.
Former Croatian Prime Minister and former leader of the SDP party Zoran Milanovic is offering his services as a consultant to Pristina and Tirana.
According to media reports, Milanovic wants to help them in the process of EU integration.
The Albanian language daily from Pristina Gazeta Express writes that he is currently offering his consulting services "in various South East Europe countries."
The Ambassador of Russia in Albania, Aleksandar Karpushin, stated that Russia’s position toward Kosovo continues to remain unchanged, sticking to resolution 1244 of the UN Security Council. However, according to him, this position will not impede development of the relation between Russia and Albania. Karpushin criticized Albania for joining the European Union sanctions which according to him are anti-Russian and illegal.
- My main focus, as the new head of the OSCE mission in Kosovo, will be to work for the benefit of all communities, in line with our status-neutral mandate. Special attention will be paid to the protection of civil and human rights, especially minority communities. We are ready to assist in the implementation of agreements arising from the Brussels dialogue on the normalization of relations between Pristina and Belgrade, says in an exclusive interview for Vesti, Jan Braathu, Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo.