Kosovo

At a meeting of the EU-facilitated high level dialogue on the normalisation of relations between Belgrade and Pristina on Tuesday, Serbia and Kosovo marked a progress in their relations after signing four key agreements.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic announced late on Tuesday in Brussels that agreements reached there are "good for the Serb people in Kosovo."

Speaking after another round of EU-sponsored Belgrade-Pristina negotiations, he "singled out as the most important the formation of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO)" which he said will have "broad powers."

Agreement has been reached during the negotiations of the Belgrade and Pristina delegations in Brussels for Serbia to have its own telecoms company in Kosovo.

Member of the Serb delegation General Dragan Vladisvljevic said that an agreement had been reached and that Serbia will have its own telecommunications company in Kosmet (Kosovo and Metohija).

Romanian Andreea Chitu qualified on Tuesday in the semifinals of the women's 52 kg category at the World Judo Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Chitu will fight Turkmenistan's Gulbadam Babamuratova for a place in the final; the other semifinal will see Japanese judoka Misato Nakamura take on Brazil's Erika Miranda.

The two sides, headed by prime ministers Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa, are due to meet on Tuesday to finalize key deals on energy, telecommunications and the Association of Serbian Municipalities, the EU said.

Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1244 "will remain at the core of the UN policy toward Kosovo."

This is what Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon agreed on Saturday, according to Tanjug.

Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said in New York on Friday that his country finds Pristina's demands "to join the work of UNESCO and Interpol" unacceptable.

A new round of the EU-facilitated dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina is set to take place in Brussels on August 25.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo's Prime Minister Isa Mustafa will take part, the European External Action Service said in a release on Friday.

Oliver Ivanovic's health condition has improved, but remains unstable, Milan Jakovljevic, a doctor at the Health Center in Kosovska Mitrovica, has said.

The Serb politician from northern Kosovo who heads the GI SDP party has been on a hunger strike for the past two weeks and was late on Thursday rushed to the hospital's intensive care unit for coronary disease patients.

A Belgrade economist has welcomed the call by Safet Gërxhaliu, President of Kosovo's Chamber of Commerce, for Serbian investors to develop businesses in Kosovo.

During his recent visit to Serbia, Gërxhaliu advised Serbian companies to start thinking about opening workplaces in Kosovo where members of the different ethnic groups can work together.