Community of Serb Municipalities

Pristina-based Koha Ditore is reporting this, noting that it had seen this three-page report authored by Chairman of Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee Norbert Roettegen, and Robert Cooper, former supervisor in the technical level dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade.

Belgrade-based press is saying this in articles published on Tuesday.

Daily Blic said it learned from diplomatic sources that "pressure from western countries to solve the open issue between Serbia and Kosovo is slowly waning."

Dacic also stressed that Pristina authorities are sending "very different messages that have nothing to do with reality" on a daily basis.

Compromise should be sought on the issue of Kosovo and Metohija, he continued, and described Hashim Thaci' statement regarding a merger of (Kosovo) with Presevo by saying that Thaci "must say something, because he is under attack from all sides."

"I see that Albanian officials from Kosovo and Metohija will talk neither about the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), nor about the North, nor about Gazivode," he said.

But, this peace "will be tested in negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo as they work to normalize their relationship, especially by a controversial idea for swapping territory that could have destabilizing effects in the region," says a Stratfor report.

That was his reply when he was asked to clarify "border correction" and whether it involved territory exchange.

In an interview for European Western Balkans (EWB) Thaci said that "he knew Serbia is in no hurry to advance towards the inevitable recognition of Kosovo independence."

In response to the head of Pristina's negotiating team in the technical dialogue, who spoke about "crazy and unacceptable" requests made by a team drafting the Statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), Djuric offered Arifi "legal assistance, so he can understand the Brussels agreement."

Albanian-language daily Koha Ditore said that requests found in the minutes of the team's meeting call for the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) to have competencies on property, privatization, economy, and be a part of Serbia's education system.

The government will take a stance as soon as it has a concrete proposal on the table, she added.

Four reasons

"My position as the president is completely clear - the solution to the problem is needed and necessary, as soon as possible, for several reasons," Vucic said.