A former member of the Serbian Interior Ministry Milivoje Petrovic was arrested this morning at the border crossing Bela zemlja, on the road Gnjilane/Gjilan - Bujanovac.

Petrovic was taken to the police station in Gnjilane/Gjilan, where he was immediately determined 24-hour detention, told Kosovo Police to the Srna agency.

The arrest was carried out by order of the prosecutor. It is still unknown why Petrovic was arrested this morning.

A group of ethnic Albanians attacked Pavic Gojkovic, a 61-year-old Serb, on Wednesday in Pec/Peja, northwestern Kosovo, and members of the Kosovo police saved him from being lynched.

Gojkovic told Tanjug that a group of Albanians attacked him after he walked out of a lawyer's office onto the street, together with his mother and a close friend who drove them to Pec/Peja.

The Serb former mayor of the Zubin Potok municipality, Slavisa Ristic, was questioned by EU rule-of-law mission prosecutors over the murder of a Kosovo police officer in 2011.

Ristic was questioned by EU rule-of-law mission, EULEX prosecutors at the basic court in Mitrovica on Monday over suspected involvement in an attack in July 2011 in Zubin Potok, in which a member of Kosovo’s police special unit was killed.

“Ristic appeared voluntarily before the prosecutors,” EULEX spokesperson Dragana Nikolic-Solomon told BIRN.

Director of the Kosovo Police, Shpend Maxhuni, called Serb returnees to join the Kosovo police Service (KPS). Maxhuni said that it would contribute to the reduction of incidents to which returnees are exposed. During the visit to the returnee village Drsnik near Klina/Kline, Maxhuni said that attacks on returnees and their property can be prevented by better cooperation between the returnees and the police.

Citizens' Initiative SDP announced today that the latest attack on the former building of Kosovska Mitrovica municipality represents another in a series of provocative acts against Serbs in Kosovo.

SDP calls on the international representatives in Kosovo to use their influence and impact on calming the situation in order not to repeat the unfortunate events of the past when Serbs were expelled from Kosovo by an organized violence.

In the first six months of this year, police in Kosovo has filed more than 500 criminal charges for possessing illegal weapons, which leads to the conclusion that in the hands of the citizens of Kosovo is still a large number of illegal weapons.

Kosovo police spokesman Baki Kelani told Radio Free Europe that the police officers in the first half of this year launched more than 500 cases for possession of illegal weapons.

Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Policy, Aleksandar Vulin said at the opening of the new Centre for Social Work in North Mitrovica that "social benefits will not be reduced and that Serbia will continue to care for those who are in most difficult position in the country."

On the occasion of the incidents that took place in the Serbian communities in Kosovo, as a result of disrupted match Serbia-Albania in Belgrade, Kosovo Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi in an informal conversation with RTK2 journalist on the question of whether someone was held responsible and whether any of these cases are solved, Rexhepi said: "You invent incidents, and when they do not exist," and sent a journalist to seek an answer from the local police.

Kosovo Police Spokesperson, Baki Kelani said that the police had taken all measures to shed light on the incidents.

A handover of police equipment took place today at the Kosovo Police in the presence of Minister of Internal Affairs, Bajram Rexhepi,United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative, Andrew Russell, donors, and representatives of the South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC). The donation of equipment worth USD 46,000 is part of the UNDP’s KOSSAC (Kosovo Small Arms Control Project) project and part of the EU strategy for fighting illegal collection and trafficking of small arms and ammunition.

 The Kosovo police arrested early on Wednesday two persons in north Kosovo as part of the police operation tasked with prevention of drug trafficking and other crimes.

Zeljko Bojic, regional head of the Kosovo police, told Tanjug that two persons were arrested in the area of the Leposavic municipality following a search at two locations at 05:00 a.m. on Wednesday.

Bojic said that two vehicles, one radio frequency connector and a number of documents were confiscated in the villages of Lesak and Isevo in northern Kosovo.