After Albanian soldiers toured Mitrovica North couple of days ago and the announcement that several hundreds of them would be deployed to the north of Kosovo, Chairperson of the Serbian National Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun said it represents an endangerment of the security of Serbian people there.

Drecun told TV Pink he has no confirmation that several hundreds of Albanian soldiers would be deployed as part of KFOR, however he did not exclude possibility of that to happen.

Former head of the Coordination Centre for Kosovo and Metohija Nebojsa Covic, believes that "some evil is in store" for Serbs in northern Kosovo. In his view, Pristina authorities, with the support of their foreign mentors, are planning to "round off their sovereignty in the whole territory of Kosovo and Metohija."

A gathering has been held in Rome dedicated to the consequences of the use of depleted uranium ammunition. The participants in the event, which was also attended by a Serbian delegation, said that it was time to hear the truth, and that NATO should never again use depleted uranium - as it had done during the 78-day bombing of Serbia in 1999.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dacic told Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti that the bearers of the former US administration for 20 years prevent the achievement of a compromise and mutually acceptable solution for Kosovo, quote Serbian media.

NATO bombing of the then Yugoslavia has been an embarrassing deviation which everyone is ashamed of today, John Simpson, a BBC reporter told British public broadcaster’s office in Belgrade on Wednesday.

Simson, who was covering the NATO intervention in 1999 aimed at stopping Belgrade's forces from, as they said, repression over ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, said it was “an unpleasant experience” from the beginning to the end, which “is forgotten today.”

NATO member states are the biggest donors to the Serbian Defense Ministry, the Institute for European Affairs said on Thursday citing figures from the ministry, BETA news agency reported.

Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin said that NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 killed international law, adding that Serbia recovered but the international law had not, BETA news agency reported.

Vulin made these remarks at the opening of the round table “NATO Aggression – Causes and Consequences” and noted that Serbia “has survived thanks to its army, police and people”.

“International law has died. Permanently and surely. The great powers no longer had any need to explain their actions with any legalities – force was sufficient,” Vulin is quoted as saying.

Deputy Minister of Justice from Srpska Lista, Vesna Mikic was deposed of her function today, because of her Facebook post on NATO bombardment, TV N1 reports referring to KoSSev portal.

The portal reported Mikic on her Facebook profile wrote yesterday “that the NATO campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia came after a decade long fight against Albanian terrorists,” adding “that NATO has committed premeditated genocide.”

Serbian media reported on a statement of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying that “aggression of NATO member states on Yugoslavia in 1999 represents a black stain that shall always remain on the reputation of North-Atlantic Alliance.”

The statement of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry can be seen at: http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3583602

79 percent of Serbian citizens are opposed to their country joining NATO. And 64 percent would not accept the western military alliance's apology for the 1999 bombing, BETA news agency reported on Friday.

This is according to a public opinion poll conducted by the Institute for European Affairs NGO, on the occasion of the upcoming 20th anniversary of the start of NATO's aggression against Serbia.