The topics of the talks between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels will be the use of ID cards of the citizens of Kosovo which had been issued by the police administrations of Serbia and implementation of the Agreement on official visits.
However, as Blic learns unofficially, it is unlikely that this idea of Kosovo's authorities will pass "so smoothly".
Serbia wants to arrange its state modeled after EU members, Tomislav Nikolic has said, adding that Serbia at the same time "has one condition."
It is that "Europe never asks it to recognize Kosovo," he explained, speaking for a local television station in Corfu, Greece, on Monday.
A group of people from Rudare village, close to Zvecan, is heading by vehicle to Jarinje, at the border crossing between Kosovo and Serbia, to protest against the announced decision of the government of Kosovo that from 18 April, individuals who possess illegal ID documents, issued by the illegal structures of Serbia in Kosovo, will not be allowed to enter Kosovo.
Mayors of the northern municipalities as well as mayors of the so-called municipalities that function as part of Serbia, also joined these protesters.
Deputy Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Zeljko Jovic, stated yesterday that the Serbian Government is present in Kosovo and Metohija every day, offering a hand of friendship and doing everything for the sake of survival of Serbs in the province.
Jovic paid a visit to Kololeč village in Kamenica/Kamenicë Municipality where he opened a section of a newly asphalted road that passes through the village, as part of a project funded by the Serbian Government through this Office.
Director of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, said on Sunday that Serbia is "with its citizens in Kosovo." He urged them "not to worry, and turn out and vote in as great a number as possible and show Serb unity in the April 24 elections."
Unidentified individuals have burned down during the last night the flags of Albania and Kosovo, at the Montenegrin capital city, Podgorica. The case happened at “Capital Plaza” where the offices of the Embassy of Kosovo are situated.
Armed members of the Albanian National Army (ANA) in the region of Mitrovica have called its members on mobilization, reported web portal Veriu.info. A video, published on this portal, calls ANA’s members on fight and swearing in.
Ban on entry of the head of Serbia's Kosovo Office - one of several recent bans - is designed to remind Belgrade that Kosovo does not want the Serbian election campaign conducted on its territory, experts say.
One of the most serious problems with human rights in Kosovo during 2015 was the obstruction, at times violent, of the parliament by opposition deputies during the October-December period, states the annual US State Department report on human rights. This obstruction, according to the report, blocked free debate and the passage of legislation. Furthermore, endemic corruption in the government and the private sector as well as the lack of punishment for corrupt acts remained an important human rights problem.
The new conditions of travelling only with ID cards between Kosovo and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia will become effective on Sunday, 17 April 2016. Kosovo’s Ministry of Internal Affairs announced a ceremony at the border point between Hani i Elezit and Blace. The condition to cross the border for the population of Kosovo is to possess biometric IDs. For several years now, Kosovo population can cross the borders only with IDs while traveling to Albania and Montenegro.