Kosovo government

GRACANICA- Serb list leader Aleksandar Jablanovic said Wednesday that the Albanian side also had a share in the responsibility to set up a community of Serb municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

GRACANICA - Members of the assemblies in the 10 Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) and Serb members of the Kosovo parliament met in Gracanica on Wednesday to discuss their further political activities.

PRISTINA - Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said on Thursday that the Srpska list has set no conditions to return to the government, but added that he will not accept any condition set by the list.

Responding to questions from members of the Kosovo assembly, Mustafa said that Srpska representatives have been invited to return to the government but that they did not respond.

BELGRADE - Representatives of the Srpska List will not go back to being part of the Kosovo government and institutions unless the ruling parties of ethnic Albanians decide to stick to the signed coalition agreement, Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric said on Wednesday.

"Serbs won't return to Kosovo institutions"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Government's Kosovo Office Director Marko Djuric on Wednesday announced that Serb representatives would not return to the Kosovo government.

The accounts of the Serb-majority municipalities of North Mitrovica, Zvecan, Leposavic and Zubin Potok in north Kosovo have been blocked after they did not hand over budgets that complied with the budget circulars set out by the Kosovo government and the ministry of finance, officials said.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - President of the Northern Mitrovica Municipal Assembly Ksenija Bozovic stated on Friday that the accounts of four northern Kosovo municipalities with majority Serb population have been blocked for a week now without any explanation or written notification by the Pristina government.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The Srpska List called on Albanian leaders in Kosovo-Metohija and representatives of the Kosovo government and parliament to pass a bill setting up a court that would try war crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and thus contribute to reconciliation.

Around 70 Kosovar immigrants were flown back from Budapest to Prishtina  on a flight organized by the Ministry of Interior of Kosovo.

The passengers were a wider group of Kosovar migrants to countries including Austria, Sweden, Germany, Slovakia, Finland and Hungary whose temporary asylum status in these countries had expired.

BRUSSELS - European Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn dismissed the claims by Pristina officials that the restrictive visa regime has caused the surge of illegal migration from Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).