Pristina

The green light to open new chapters in Serbia's EU accession talks by the end of the year will depend on a progress report on the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

Serbia's chief negotiator with the EU Tanja Miscevic said this on Tuesday.

The lower house of the Dutch parliament has passed a proposal submitted by the country's Foreign Ministry regarding the seat of the KLA court.

Tanjug reported this on Tuesday quoting Pristina-based Albanian language newspaper Kosova Sot.

Former Croatian Prime Minister and former leader of the SDP party Zoran Milanovic is offering his services as a consultant to Pristina and Tirana.

According to media reports, Milanovic wants to help them in the process of EU integration.

BELGRADE - US Ambassador to Kosovo Greg Delawie said on Sunday in Pristina that "Kosovo's security forces will become an army, since it is necessary that Kosovo has its own defensive capabilities".

Delawie said that NATO forces will not withdraw until Kosovo has ability to defend itself, reported RTK2.

For both Belgrade and Pristina, progress on the EU path primarily depends on the normalization of relations between them.

This is according to European Parliament rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister.

BELGRADE - Minister for European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic Friday dismissed as untrue assessments that Serbia's EU integration process is stalled, expressing the confidence that three new chapters in its accession talks - 5, 25, 26 - will be opened by end-year.

Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj expects "a new phase in relations between Kosovo and Spain," Pristina-based broadcaster RTK has reported.

An article published under the headline "Hoxhaj calls on Spain to recognize Kosovo" further said that the official "expressed his expectation that Spain will not block Kosovo on the path of European integration."

BELGRADE - The Belgrade-Pristina expert-level dialogue will resume in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday, with the Belgrade delegation to be headed by the director of the government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric.

The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is continuing and the EU is continuing to play its role in it, says the of the EU Delegation to Belgrade, Michael Davenport.

The delegations of Belgrade and Pristina have been in Brussels to discuss concrete implementation of several aspects of the Brussels Agreement and other agreements in the dialogue, he told reporters on Friday.

Serbia is always ready for dialogue, but not for surrendering its property, Marko Djuric said in Brussels on Thursday.