Brussels only accepts community of municipalities

“Everything else is disputable, starting from the question in accordance with whose laws the community will function, which election system will be implemented, which bodies and in line with whose laws would be elected and which jurisdictions the community will have,” Pantic explained. “During the entire two-day dialogue, Pristina and the EU insisted that the so-called parallel institutions should be abolished although they also mentioned the issue of so-called security structures,” he told daily Belgrade-based daily Politika on Friday. Daily Vecernje Novosti reads that Serbia's top officials will next week make a detailed plan about the structure and concrete jurisdiction of nine municipalities in Kosovo that are the backbone of the future Serb community and the document will be presented by Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic in the next round of the talks in Brussels. According to the daily's sources, Belgrade will not allow the existing institutions to be closed until an agreement on new ones has been reached. Dacic told Vecernje Novosti that Serbs need to have some sort of authority in Kosovo-Metohija, which would elect their representatives and protect interests of Serbs. “There has to be a package that would include the existence of the community of Serb municipalities with jurisdictions, election system, that would allow Serb self-government in Kosovo. Only then it will be possible to talk about transforming the Serbian institutions into institutions of the community that all municipalities in which Serbs make up a majority should join, not only those from the north,” the prime minister explained. Commenting on liaison officers, who should start working on March 1, Dacic said that Pristina wants the liaison officers to have diplomatic immunity which, as he put is, is impossible, adding that some level of protections needs to exist.