Chief of the U.S.  National Guard Bureau, General Frank Grass, lectured today about the current security challenges in the world, within the context of the increased challenges for NATO, be it from Moscow or the other non-state actors such as the so-called “Islamic State.”

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, spoke during an extraordinary press conference about the visit of the Serbian General accused for war crimes in Kosovo, Ljubisa Dikovic. He said that the government of Kosovo did not have any information with regards to his visit to Kosovo.

“If we look at the original version of the Agreement on the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities (A/CSM), which would be considered as the relevant one in case of any dispute,  it provides that the A/CSM will have a constituent assembly, which stipulates implicitly that it could act out of the constitutional and legal framework of Kosovo and could have, in the end, its own constitution,” said former president of the Kosovo Constitutional Court, Enver Hasani in a TV show ‘Slobodno srpski’ (Talk free in Serbian).

Serbia and Kosovo must now redouble their efforts in the dialogue in order to reach new agreements, says for Blic, British Minister for Europe David Lidington.

In an interview for Blic, Lidington points out that at present is crucial to continue the Brussels dialogue, regardless of all the problems.

The Director of the Fund for Humanitarian Rights in Belgrade, Natasa Kandic, expressed her surprise with the decision of KFOR to allow entrance of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff, Gen. Ljubisa Dikovic, in Kosovo, being that he is accused for committing war crimes in Kosovo.

It is very important that Albanians in Kosovo and Serbs in Serbia have it clear that agreements reached in Brussels are fully harmonized with the Kosovo Constitution, said Kosovo Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Petrit Selimi, and added that he also expects the latest agreement referring to the Association/Community of Serb municipalities to be implemented, too.

The Association/Community of Serb municipalities is victory of the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Serbian politics, however it’s a short-term victory, says Kosovo analyst Dukadjin Gorani.

Ulrike Lunacek, Vice-President of the European Parliament, and Rapporteur for Kosovo, told Deutche Welle that problems in Kosovo cannot be resolved by violence and that opposition should wait for the decision of the Constitutional Court.

Despite the statistics of the Ministry of Finance that Kosovo scored bigger economic growth, when compared with last year, political instability and demonstrations in streets in Pristina negatively influence on attraction of foreign investments, warned experts.

Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, carried out with EU mediation, is bogged down, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said, claiming that the underlying reason is a halt by the Kosovo side of the implementation of key agreements.