Community of Serb Municipalities

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.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday that measures would be taken to strengthen the Serbian army and intelligence services after talks with Patriarch Irinej about what Vucic called the "survival of the Serbian people" in Kosovo.

President Vucic claimed on Friday in an open letter to Kosovo Serbs that Pristina will "not lift a finger" to establish the promised Association of Serb Majority Municipalities in Kosovo as agreed in the EU-mediated Belgrade-Pristina talks on normalising relations.

In it, Vucic calls on Serbs in the province not to react to any possible provocations and targeted misinformation, and points out that Serbia is ready today to fulfill its obligations toward them and protect their lives and peace, if necessary.

The full text of the letter:

"Respected citizens of Kosovo and Metohija,

Dear Serbs,

He said this on Friday, after a meeting of the Kosovo Council for Security.

"No one has the right to undertake unilateral action," Haradinaj said, at a press conference and added that "violation of Kosovo laws would not be tolerated," the publication Gazeta Express has reported.

The daily Kurir said the meeting will be held on August 4, the day when the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) should have been formed in Kosovo and Metohija.

In addition, the report said, "there is operative information that Albanians will, with NATO's assistance, attempt to occupy Gazivode."

Kosovo politicians have complained of a lack of information about the draft statute for the proposed Association of Serbian Municipalities, which is designed to guarantee their autonomy in the mainly ethnic Albanian country.

"Kosovo gave the mandate to the Steering Team to draft the statute of the Community, that is, the Association (of Serb Municipalities, ZSO), which is in progress and will take time," Kocijancic told Tanjug on Wednesday.

Leaked documents that BIRN has seen reveal that Kosovo Serb stakeholders that the team tasked to draft the controversial statute in Kosovo on the Association of Serbian Municipalities consulted believe the statute should allow the education and health sectors to remain reliant on Serbia.

The foreign minister of Serbia at the same time stressed that pressure will not accelerate reaching a compromise.

"The United States is already very much well informed and indirectly involved in the whole process," Dacic told the daily Vecernje Novosti, commenting on the call of Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to engage the United States in the dialogue.