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Terrible things happen in election campaign (N1)

The owner of Mir (Peace) TV from northernmost Leposavic town in Kosovo Nenad Radosavljevic said that during the campaign ahead of the October 6 elections “really terrible things happen,” mentioning the case of a doctor who was fired after 36 years of work assumingly for participating at an opposition gathering,” N1 reported on Monday.

Radosavljevic added that there were "lots of such cases.”

Dacic: Soon less than half of the UN members who have recognized Kosovo (RTS)

The situation around Kosovo has changed a lot, we can soon expect that the number of states that have recognized Kosovo will fall below half of the number of UN members, said Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) reports that Dacic said that President Aleksandar Vucic and himself spoke with representatives of 92 countries at the UN General Assembly.

Simic: Pressures will not break the Serbian unity (TV Most)

Serbian List Vice-President Igor Simic said today that pressures coming from different sides ahead of parliamentary elections in Kosovo cannot break the Serbian unity and that this would be visible in the October 6 elections.

Thus, reacting to a decision of Pristina institutions to ban the arrival of Serbian officials in Kosovo on the eve of the October 6 election, Simic said it would prove that pressure and violence ''could not be fruitful'' since the increased pressures would result in even bigger unity of Serbs.

Zyberaj: We will not tolerate Belgrade’s threats to Serbs; Office for KiM: Serbs are victims of political violence (KoSSev)

''The October 6th elections are the elections of the Republic of Kosovo and its citizens,'' so Belgrade officials will not be allowed to campaign and threaten Serbs in Kosovo – adviser to the outgoing Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli, Jetlir Zyberaj announced today. On the other hand, the Office for KiM assessed this ban as ''Pristina’s absolute fear of Serb political unity''. They also accused Pristina of turning Kosovo Serbs into ''victims of political violence, human rights violations and undemocratic treatment''.

The Office for KiM: Kozarev escorted to Konculj, Kosovo Police chasing after Petkovic ( KoSSev)

The Deputy Director at the Office for KiM Dusan Kozarev was forced to leave Kosovo on Friday – the Kosovo Office announced, reported portal KoSSev.

Kozarev was stopped on the road between Ranilug and Novo Brdo and then escorted to Konculj on the grounds that ''the representatives of the state bodies of Serbia are not welcome in the Kosovo elections''.

N1: Kosovo Serb List ignores invitation to election campaign debate

The Serb List ignored an invitation for a debate attended by other Kosovo Serb parties at the start of the campaign for the October 6 parliamentary elections.

All three Kosovo Serb parties and one coalition were invited to the debate in Caglavica. Officials of the Freedom (Sloboda) coalition, Party of Kosovo Serbs and Serb Liberal Party showed up for the debate. The Serb List which has the support of official Belgrade did not show up.

Milunovic and Rajcic expelled from the CI SDP (Kontakt plus radio, KIM radio, KoSSev)

KiM radio reports that the Vice President of the CI SDP Ksenija Bozovic announced on Wednesday that councillors Dusan Milunovic and Igor Rajcic from this initiative can only act as independent councillors as of that day. She explained that they were expelled from the CI SDP because they had violated the Statute of this civil initiative,

Kosovo online: Assistant Director of KiM Office stopped at Jarinje crossing (B92, Blic)

Assistant Director of the KiM Office Petar Petkovic was stopped at Jarinje administrative crossing and was not allowed to enter Kosovo, reports portal Kosovo online.

Petkovic has been waiting at Jarinje crossing for more than an hour, according to the portal.

Petkovic went to the first pre-election convention of the Serbian List, which is being held in Leposavic today at 1 pm, where he was about to speak on behalf of the Office of the Government of the Republic of Serbia.

Rakic says that the future of Serbian people is being decided (RTS, Vecernje Novosti, Blic)

President of Serbian List Goran Rakic told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that these elections directly decide the future of the Serbian people in Kosovo.

''It's simple situation, on October 6, our citizens are deciding whether they will have representatives in the Assembly in Pristina who will bravely fight for their interests or we will allow ourselves to be represented by Pristina’s favourites, who no longer hide but brag about the support they receive from Albanians,'' Rakic said.

Igor Simic: Pristina hijacks 4,000 Serbs' votes (Politika, Dnevnik, RTV, Kurir)

The head of the list of candidates in front of the Serbian List Igor Simic told Belgrade based daily Politika that it is crucial for the list to win all 10 Serbian seats in the Assembly of Kosovo and warned that if the Albanians manage to plant a cuckoo in the nest and any of 'Trojan horses' wins a mandate, this would endanger the survival of the Serbian people.