Pristina

Kosovo Prime Minister Mustafa will not participate in a meeting scheduled for late January in Brussels within Belgrade-Pristina dialogue at the highest level.

This was announced by Mustafa's adviser and deputy minister of local government, Bajram Gecaj.

Fahrudin Radoncic, the leader of the Alliance for a Better Future of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SBBBiH) said on Sunday that he is ready to testify at the trial of the alleged Balkan drug lord Naser Kelmendi which is currently underway in the Kosovo capital Pristina.

The Albanian citizens who tried to join the opposition rally in Pristina on January 9 have written a letter of protest to the Kosovo embassy in Tirana and made an official complaint to the Albanian police alleging that they were assaulted and turned back at the Vermica border crossing.

Kosovo's Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, told BIRN Pristina "plans to discuss the border demarcation between the two states, Kosovo and Serbia, in 2016".

The next round of EU-brokered talks between Belgrade and Pristina are due to begin in Brussels on January 27.

Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa "will not to to Brussels on January 27 for a meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic."

This was reported on Wednesday by Pristina-based Albanian language daily, and carried by Beta news agency.

The ruling that parts of the Brussels-brokered agreements with Serbia were unconstitutional swelled the ranks of opposition protesters who caused unrest on the streets of Pristina on Saturday, experts suggested.

Ivica Dacic says the desecration of a Serbian Orthodox church in Pristina over the weekend provided yet more proof that "Kosovo is not fit for UNESCO."

Opposition supporters will gather in Pristina on Saturday for a new protest against the Brussels agreement, the ZSO and demarcation with Montenegro.

In the view of the opposition, the first agreement - on a future Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) - "partitions Kosovo," while the other "gifts a part of the territory to Montenegro."

Marko Djuric says Pristina "should not expect to be given what it wants" by Belgrade before it honors the agreement on telecommunications.

"Pristina has not done that, and until it does, that will not be possible, do not expect us to give them what they want without getting what we should get," the director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo told RTS.

Ramush Haradinaj says he is "proud to be representing pro-American positions" but that he "cannot accept the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO).

Belgrade and Pristina reached agreement to set up this community during the EU-sponsored negotiations held in Brussels.