In Kosovo

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday that, 11 years after the signing of the Brussels Agreement, Pristina had still not established a Community of Serb Municipalities.

SOFIA - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak announced on Monday a new meeting of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue would be held in Brussels next week to discuss the use of the Serbian dinar in Kosovo-Metohija, and said he hoped an arrangement would be finalised based on the EU's ideas.

BRUSSELS - EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell said on Monday the EU would keep putting pressure on Belgrade and Pristina to move forward in implementation of the Ohrid Agreement, reached a year ago.

BRUSSELS - European Commission spokesperson Peter Stano said on Monday not much work had been done on implementation of commitments in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and noted that implementation by both sides in good faith was a priority for the EU.

PRISTINA - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said on Tuesday he had met with Pristina's chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi to discuss implementation of the Ohrid Agreement and the so-called Kosovo central bank's ban on the Serbian dinar and announced he would host a Brussels meeting of chief negotiators in the coming days.

BELGRADE - The signature on the Brussels Agreement is binding to Serbia, while the unsigned so-called Ohrid Agreement is not in the least so, former Security Information Agency director and Movement of Socialists founder Aleksandar Vulin said on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday Belgrade had information EU member states that did not recognise the so-called Kosovo had requested clarification on a potential inclusion of the Ohrid Agreement into Chapter 35 of Serbia's EU accession talks and time to take positions that would not harm them and their interests.

The meeting followed after the Prime Minister of Pristina's temporary institutions, Albin Kurti, rejected the proposal of the USA, the EU and the Quint countries and decided that the ban on the use of the dinar in Kosovo and Metohija would begin today, Tanjug was told in the Presidency.

"The removal of this regime is an act of good neighborly relations and comes after full recognition of the plates of the Republic of Kosovo by Serbia," it is stated in the press release of the so-called Kosovo Government.
The decision enters into force on the day of its publication in the Official Gazette.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday a statement by UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron that the UK would help the so-called Kosovo gain new recognitions was utterly hypocritical and deserved the strongest condemnation.