Vranje will be the first location visited by a Serbian National Assembly commission whose job is to determine the consequences of NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia.

The commission's chairman, Darko Laketic, announced this after the Assembly voted to establish the body.

Laketic said that the commission will start work once the Assembly confirms its composition, and explained that proposed members come from the ruling SNS and SPS parties, and opposition DS, Dveri, and SRS.

The western international community should think about division of Kosovo as least bad solution, treating it as a unique case, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CEAS) Director, Jelena Milic said, Serbian media reported.

Milic told Tanjug news agency if the West is that much afraid of Russian influence, then unresolved Belgrade-Pristina issue “is one of the great channels of influence Russia could use.”

She also added, she expected that once Serbia signed Brussels agreement, EU and NATO members state that have not recognized Kosovo, would do so, however it did not happen.

Commander of KFOR, Major General Salvatore Cuoci told Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti in an interview that the decision on the formation of the armed forces of Kosovo is a decision of the Kosovo institutions, in accordance with constitutional procedures, and that KFOR continues to monitor the future of the KSF.

NATO supports development of the Kosovo Security Forces within the mandate they were established upon, and if it changes the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would reconsider the level of its engagement in Kosovo, NATO said, Serbian media reported.

“NATO does not decide on the structure, mandate and mission of the Kosovo Security Forces. This is an internal matter of the Kosovo institutions,” reads the NATO response sent to Radio Free Europe.

Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic said on Friday she has submitted to the Assembly a proposal for forming a commission tasked to investigate the environmental and health consequences of the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia, TV N1 reported.

The proposal said, it was necessary to especially assess the effects of the depleted uranium ingredient allegedly used in some bombs NATO was dropping from March 24 to June 10, 1999.

Chairperson of the Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun told RTS, Serbia would do its utmost, supported by friendly countries, to prevent decrease or cancellation of UN SC sessions on Kosovo and to keep them open to public.

Drecun said the more realistic reports on Kosovo are, the greater the pressure from countries such as France and UK is to marginalize the UN when it comes to the Kosovo issue.

Forum for Ethnic Relations Director, Dusan Janjic thinks that after adoption of the platform “for final phase of dialogue with Serbia,” in the Kosovo Government, Serbia should also establish its own platform to respond to “the two strongest political and historical provocations,” KIM Radio reported.

Janjic further elaborated Pristina platform has three goals, seat in the UN, recognition of Kosovo by Serbia and defining relations with the EU and NATO.

According to him, first goal cannot be achieved in negotiations with Serbia.

Arne Sannes Bjørnstad, the Norwegian Ambassador to Belgrade, said that calling Presevo and Bujanovac “the eastern Kosovo” was the same as calling Kosovo Serbia, adding such statements were not helpful, TV N1 reported.

He commented on the Kosovo PM Ramush Haradinaj’s remark about the two southern regions in Serbia with predominantly ethnic Albanian population describing them as a part of Kosovo.

“The March 26 incident in northern Kosovo points to the need to continue the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in order to solve the problems in a constructive way,” said Piers Cazalet, NATO Deputy Spokesperson, denying that NATO “assessed” the procedure of Djuric’s visit to Mitrovica North, RTS reported.

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic emphasizes today that it is not the first time that some Kosovo officials called Presevo and Bujanovac, eastern Kosovo, reminding that these are the goals since the Prizren League to the present day, report Serbian media.

Dacic was asked to comment Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj's statement on eastern Kosovo, and said that he does not know exactly what he said in Albanian but that he has no dilemma about it.