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Mustafa Calls Serbia's Role in Kosovo 'Destructive'

The ethnic Serbian party in Kosovo's coalition government, Srpska Lista, on Wednesday stated that following a request from Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, it would again freeze its participation in Kosovo institutions.

The party also said that Mirjana Jevtic, who last week replaced Ljubomir Maric as Minister for Local Government, will resign from her post.

Kosovo Budget Held up by Row Over Veteran Benefits

Kosovo parliament's budget and finance committee will meet again on Wednesday for the sixth time since the government at the beginning of November moved the law to discuss the 2017 budget.

The meeting comes two days after the committee failed to debate the budget because MPs from the senior coalition partner, the Democratic League of Kosovo, PDK, failed to show up.

Dacic dismisses Pristina's demands as "wish list"

Serbia's first deputy PM and foreign minister, Ivica Dacic, says Belgrade will "never" discuss the latest demands coming from Pristina.

"That is a fountain of wishes and (Edita) Tahiri's wish list that she can hang on the bulletin board of the Kosovo parliament," Dacic said in the Serbian National Assembly late on Wednesday.

Serb Census in Northern Kosovo Faces Obstacles

The chair of the Kosovo parliament's Commission for Public Administration, Zenun Pajaziti, told BIRN that his commission had approved a draft document for a census to be held in northern Kosovo, which now has to be put on the parliamentary agenda.

The census in the four northern municipalities was planned for this autumn, the Deputy Minister of Local Government, Bajram Gecaj, added.

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