Kosovo Serbs confer with Dačić and Vučić

BELGRADE A meeting between Serbian PM Ivica Dacic, First Deputy PM Aleksandar Vucic and representatives of northern Kosovo municipalities is underway. All participants of the meeting have been saying that they expect mutual understanding an agreement to be reached regarding the Brussels deal. Kosovo Serbs confer with Dacic and Vucic A meeting between the representatives of Kosovo Serbs and Serbian Patriarch Irinej was held in Belgrade earlier on Thursday. Northern Kosovo Serbs have already rejected the draft agreement initialed in Brussels last week. “I expect that we will try to find a solution that would be satisfactory for the people in northern Kosovo. In any case, the Brussels agreement is not satisfactory to northern Kosovo. However, if some alternative solutions are found and whatever we agree with Mr. Vucic, we will try to implement it. But if our people do not like it, meaning if it does not suit them, we really cannot accept something that will lead our people in the Albanian state,” Leposavic Mayor Dragisa Vasic said on Wednesday. Serbs living south of the Ibar River are also carefully monitoring the latest events regarding the implementation of the Brussels agreement. Vasic said that aside from him, Zvecan Mayor Dragisa Milovic, Zubin Potok Mayor Slavisa Ristic, Kosovska Mitrovica District Head Radenko Nedeljkovic, Office for Kosovo Deputy Director Krstimir Pantic, Kosovska Mitrovica Mayor Dragisa Vlaskovic and Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) MP Bojan Jakovljevic would be in the delegation of northern Kosovo Serbs. Top Serbian officials will discuss the Brussels agreement with EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule who will visit Belgrade today. Belgrade and Pristina's teams met with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton today to present their plans for the implementation of the agreement. Vucic will hold a press conference on the current political situation in Kosovo at 13:30 CET. Ivica Dacic and Aleksandar Vucic (Beta, file) Patriarch supports “peaceful resistance” The representatives of northern Kosovo Serbs said after the meeting with the patriarch that he had fully supported their peaceful resistance to the agreement with Pristina. “We will tell the top state officials the same thing we told the patriarch – the agreement is disastrous. It represents a gallows for Serbs and the Serbian people and an execution which is why we will ask that they give up on it. If parliament does not reject it, we will request a referendum,” Ristic stressed. He added that northern Kosovo Serbs would continue to peacefully fight against the agreement and that they would organize a protest in Belgrade. “The protest will be nonpartisan, it will be a rally of Kosovo Serbs,” Ristic noted. B92 Beta Tanjug

Kosovo Serbs confer with Dačić and Vučić

A meeting between the representatives of Kosovo Serbs and Serbian Patriarch Irinej was held in Belgrade earlier on Thursday.

Northern Kosovo Serbs have already rejected the draft agreement initialed in Brussels last week.

“I expect that we will try to find a solution that would be satisfactory for the people in northern Kosovo. In any case, the Brussels agreement is not satisfactory to northern Kosovo. However, if some alternative solutions are found and whatever we agree with Mr. Vučić, we will try to implement it. But if our people do not like it, meaning if it does not suit them, we really cannot accept something that will lead our people in the Albanian state,” Leposavić Mayor Dragiša Vasić said on Wednesday.

Serbs living south of the Ibar River are also carefully monitoring the latest events regarding the implementation of the Brussels agreement.

Vasić said that aside from him, Zvečan Mayor Dragiša Milović, Zubin Potok Mayor Slaviša Ristić, Kosovska Mitrovica District Head Radenko Nedeljković, Office for Kosovo Deputy Director Krstimir Pantić, Kosovska Mitrovica Mayor Dragiša Vlašković and Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) MP Bojan Jakovljević would be in the delegation of northern Kosovo Serbs.

Top Serbian officials will discuss the Brussels agreement with EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule who will visit Belgrade today.

Belgrade and Priština's teams met with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton today to present their plans for the implementation of the agreement.

Vučić will hold a press conference on the current political situation in Kosovo at 13:30 CET.

Patriarch supports “peaceful resistance”

The representatives of northern Kosovo Serbs said after the meeting with the patriarch that he had fully supported their peaceful resistance to the agreement with Priština.

“We will tell the top state officials the same thing we told the patriarch – the agreement is disastrous. It represents a gallows for Serbs and the Serbian people and an execution which is why we will ask that they give up on it. If parliament does not reject it, we will request a referendum,” Ristić stressed.

He added that northern Kosovo Serbs would continue to peacefully fight against the agreement and that they would organize a protest in Belgrade.

“The protest will be nonpartisan, it will be a rally of Kosovo Serbs,” Ristić noted.