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Vllasi: Annexation of Presevo valley to Kosovo not realistic (N1, Beta)

Albanian political analyst Azem Vllasi said that the annexation of the Presevo valley to Kosovo is not a realistic option.

Vllasi, a senior communist official in Kosovo during the 1980s, said that the annexation of that part of southern Serbia is something that everyone in Kosovo wants.

He told Pristina-based KTV that President Hashim Thaci’s insisting on the annexation of the Presevo valley is not a realistic option.

Third anti-government protest in northern Kosovo (N1, KoSSev)

For the third time, about a hundred of Kosovo Serbs gathered in the divided town of Mitrovica for #1in5million protests and walked to the place where their opposition leader Oliver Ivanovic was riddled with bullets on January 16, 2018, the portal KoSSev reported.

They were joined for the first time by activists of the Popular “Fatherland” Movement and members of the Alliance for Serbia (SzS) opposition group.

Analysts: Fear of the inhabitants is justified (RTK2)

Commenting the statement of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic that representatives of the Pristina authorities were waiting for a favourable moment for the attack on northern Kosovo, analyst Nexhmedin Spahiu opined that this announcement serves “for the realization of what was already agreed”, while Aleksandar Stojanovic reminds that even in the past, there were flammable statements.

Jeremic: Serbs will never accept Kosovo as an independent state (RTK2, Beta)

Vuk Jeremic, the leader of the People's Party and one of the leaders of the Alliance for Serbia, stated that most of the Serbs would never accept Kosovo as an independent state. Jeremic said this during lectures at the Diplomatic Academy of Georgetown University, quoted RTK2 the National Party of Serbia statement. Recall that he also met the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer at the Department of State.

Vucic says he refused to agree to UN membership for Kosovo (N1, Beta)

The Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic claimed on Thursday that he resisted pressure to accept Kosovo’s membership in the United Nations.

President Aleksandar Vucic told a crowd in the southern town of Leskovac that official Belgrade had come under pressure to allow Kosovo into the UN in 2013 but that he refused to agree even when threatened with an end to his political career.

Vucic: We're capable of intervening - but that was nothing (B92, Tanjug)

Our forces are disproportionately strong in relation to the need to prevent any possibility of anyone carrying out any attack or action against Serbia.

President Aleksandar Vucic said this on Thursday, while touring the Jablanica District.

"They are so much superior and convincing in every sense, professionally and in numbers," he stressed, adding that there were "more than enough of them" on the administrative line (with Kosovo), that they could intervene "at any moment."

Jeremic: Vucic offers independent Kosovo - immediately (VOA)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic offered the United States to recognize Kosovo's independence immediately, and the exchange of territory is now on the table, Vuk Jeremic, a leader of the People's Party and a member of the opposition Alliance for Serbia after the Washington meeting, said in an interview with Voice of America. The first and most important meeting, he says, was in the State Department with Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer.