Zvecan Potok

BELGRADE - A protest was organized in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica Monday against announced changes in the composition of the regional police command in the four Serb-majority municipalities in the north of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

Michael Davenport, head of the EU Delegation to Serbia, said one of the most important results of the EU-led dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina was increased levels of trust between the two sides.
Davenport said the EU's assistance in the talks, which have been supported by other partners, including the US, had been key to achieving progress in the discussions.

Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga said the country’s “constitutionality and legality encompasses the whole of its territory, a country with functional and democratic institutions, based on all-inclusiveness.

Bekim Collaku, political adviser to Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, said that Serbia was to blame for the delay in integrating the judicial authorities in Serb-dominated northern Kosovo into Pristina’s system – a commitment made by Belgrade under the EU-brokered deal to normalise relations signed in April 2013.

Ahead of the next round of Kosovo-Serbia talks in Brussels on normalising relations, government and opposition parties have exchanged barbs on whether last spring's accord with Serbia is delivering results.

Glauk Konjufca, a lawmaker of the opposition nationalistic Vetevendosje movement accused the government of failing to integrate the Serb-dominated northern part of Kosovo.