Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met today with the Ambassador of Russia to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharachenko, Serbian media report.
During the meeting President Vucic expressed concern over the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, following the recent elections there and tensions provoked by Pristina.
OSCE Mission in Kosovo Spokesperson Senad Sabovic said OSCE is not involved in the process of counting votes from Serbia, B92 reports.
“We know what is happening in Central Election Commission, but I can not make a stance or assessment because we do not have insight into this process, we were not involved in this process. There were some initiatives, but it was not approved and the OSCE was not involved in the process with envelops from Serbia,” Sabovic told Kosovo-online portal.
Kosovo online portal reports, quoting TV Pink, that President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said, at the beginning of the meeting with the President of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Valentina Matviyenko, that he was very concerned about the situation in Kosovo, especially regarding recent events and attempts by Albanians to bring a decision on abolishing the Serbian List.
Kosovo Central Election Commission (CEC) has decided not to count votes from the central Serbia until responsible bodies perform analysis because some CEC members reported unpleasant outdoors after touching the envelops and subsequent itching as well as suspicion of being poisoned, RTS reports today.
Meanwhile, Srpska Lista said that “re-tailoring of peoples’ will” is taking place.
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic held a conference last night at the Palace of Serbia declaring the Serbian List victory in Kosovo’s elections on Sunday 6 October.
He said the Serbian List won more than 98 percent of votes in Serbian areas in Kosovo.
Former head of the Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija Nebojsa Covic points out that forthcoming elections are overture for a new Kosovo political elite.
He told Prva TV in the morning program that the BBC's prognosis was realistic and that four parties would enter Kosovo Parliament - Isa Mustafa's Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Albin Kurti's Vetëvendosje, Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj's Alliance for the Future of Kosovo.
Serbian List held on Wednesday its final convention ahead of Sunday’s elections, under the “When Serbia is calling – give your vote,” slogan, adding that party was “the only guarantor of the survival of the Serbs in Kosovo,” the Beta news agency reported.
The party’s candidates called on people gathered to encircle number 135 on the ballot paper.
The role of OSCE in Kosovo is to provide technical advice and assistance, this mission reminded the public and said that they would not have observers in the forthcoming elections, stressing that this was a request from CEC.
According to political analyst Dejan Vuk Stankovic without the OSCE, the elections in Kosovo will be anything but regular, which encourages chaos in Kosovo, reports portal Kosovo online quoting Sputnik.
A Tanjug crew was allowed on Thursday to enter Kosovo after a two-hour wait at the Jarinje administrative crossing.
The crew members' personal documents were also returned to them.
The reporters had been held at the administrative crossing with the explanation that they needed approval from the Pristina interior ministry and that they must wait for Pristina's response.
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said Serbs face stark and brutal discrimination ahead of Kosovo elections.
He pointed out that the only way to combat discrimination is to achieve a massive turnout in the October 6th elections.
Djuric told RTS that the Serbian List was forbidden to say "Serbia is calling," and others are not punished for saying that "Serbian List is a monster."