The Council for National Security met on on Monday in the Presidency of Serbia in Belgrade.

Serbia is a stable country and there is no possibility of a significant threat to peace and security of the state, a statement issued by the Presidential Press Service said after the meeting.

A meeting of the Council for National Security started on Monday around 13:00 CET in the Presidency of Serbia in Belgrade.

The meeting is dedicated to announcements coming from Pristina about the formation of an army in Kosovo, and to the Kosovo Assembly's request to suspend the dialogue with Belgrade until Ramush Haradinaj has been freed in France.

MP of the Serbian List in the Kosovo Parliament Nenad Rašić said that the resolution for the unconditional release of Ramush Haradinaj adopted by the Assembly of Kosovo contains and a request to stop the dialogue with Belgrade, and thus represents a kind of political pressure on the EU.

According to Rašić, this resolution is not binding. He said that the resolution has no requests of the opposition concerning the abolition of Serbian warrants for possible suspects.

The Association of the Families of KLA War Martyrs and the Association of KLA War Invalids issued a joint statement today calling on Kosovo’s institutions to take all the necessary steps to form the Kosovo Army. The statement notes: “There can be no independent country without an army and this is why Kosovo must have its army. There is no country in the world that does not rely its defense force on its army and Kosovo should do the same.

Commenting on the announcement of the imminent formation of the Armed Forces of Kosovo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs Petrit Selimi says for daily Danas that the question remains how the next few days and weeks to continue towards the joint goal in enabling Kosovo to implement the sovereign decision to establish its own army.

Selimi also argues that Belgrade has no say nor it can block the formation of this army.

Kosovo’s Deputy Minister for Culture, Rexhep Hoti, said in a debate on RTV21 on Thursday that the Kosovo Army will be formed next week and that the process is in line with the constitution and in cooperation with Kosovo’s international partners. Hoti said President Hashim Thaci in his recent address said that Kosovo’s Army has been projected together with the United States of America and NATO and that this is an unstoppable process. “The time of the army is now and the concern of our international partners – the U.S.

President Tomislav Nikolic will call for Monday, March 13, a session of the Council for National Security.

"The meeting will come following the demand by the 'Kosovo' assembly to stop the Brussels dialogue," the presidential office announced in a statement late on Thursday.

Duda Balje, MP from the 6+ parliamentary group, told the news website that her group has always supported the idea of forming the Kosovo Army. “The 6+ parliamentary group will vote in favor of the Kosovo Army. This is a very important initiative and the country needs an army,” Balje said.

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić said that the formation of security forces of Kosovo will not happen, as announced by Hashim Thaçi, and stated that it was an undoubted diplomatic success of Serbia.

Đurić recalled on the statement of Stoltenberg in which he opposed the way of establishing of armed forces of Kosovo and which directed Pristina to the continuation of the talks with Belgrade.

It has been confirmed in a telephone conversation between the Serbian PM and the NATO chief that the military alliance opposes the formation of a Kosovo army.

Serbia's state broadcaster RTS reported this late on Wednesday.

Jens Stoltenberg also told Aleksandar Vucic that NATO had officially warned Pristina that the organization is opposed to the formation of an army in Kosovo, something announced in recent days by Kosovo President Hashim Thaci.