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Vucic met Lajcak in Belgrade today (B92)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received in Belgrade today Slovakian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs as well as Chairman of the OSCE Miroslav Lajcak, Serbian media reported. During the meeting, President Vucic expressed serious concern over events in the north of Kosovo and Metohija and warned that Pristina by unilateral and provocative acts causes tensions and deterioration of the security situation. He pointed out in particular manipulations over alleged poisoning of the members of the Kosovo Central Election Commission during counting the votes from central Serbia, all of them

OSCE was not involved in process with envelops from Serbia (B92, Kosovo-online)

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.

Political analyst: OSCE encouraging chaos by observing the elections only in the north Kosovo (Kosovo online, Sputnik)

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.

Dacic: Security Council session on Kosovo on 31 October (RTS)

Ivica Dacic told this morning Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that after a long delay with the UK, Serbia had agreed on some of the dynamics of those regular sessions and that there are no longer any problems. He says that the topic is now on the agenda and the latest UN Secretary-General's report on Kosovo will be discussed on October 31.

"For the state and national interests of Serbia, for the realization of all our ideas and ideas about what to do in Kosovo - Serbs need to vote in Kosovo, they need to vote for the representatives of the Serbian List.

Raska-Prizren Eparchy strongly protests over flagrant violation of Law on Special Protection Zones, calls for urgent Implementation and Monitoring Council meeting (Serbian media, Raska-Prizren Eparchy)

Serbian Orthodox Church Raska-Prizren Eparchy expressed the strongest protest over recent unauthorized serving of Catholic mass on the remains of an old cathedral temple of Saint Nikola, seat of Novo Brdo Orthodox Metropolitans and main Orthodox Serbian temple in this medieval town, as well as placing political symbols of Kosovo on the Serbian medieval cultural, historic and religious heritage sites in Novo Brdo Special Protection Zone and organizing public gatherings and other activities aiming to promote the medieval Novo Brdo town as an ethnic Albanian location under unhistorical name “Arta

Desecration of Serbian Orthodox cemetery in Lipljan condemned (Serbian media)

Gracanica Mayor Srdjan Popovic in the strongest terms condemned demolishing of more than 20 tombstones at the Orthodox cemetery in Lipljan and requested a detailed investigation as well as identification of perpetrators. “Such incidents bring us back to the past and do not contribute to the stabilization, overall peace and building the trust. Ethnic, religious and cultural differences are the high societal values that we all must respect.

Lukashevich: Albania to have neutral stance on Kosovo (Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)

Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich said Russia expects Albania, when it takes over the Chairmanship of OSCE to have a neutral stance on the process of resolving the Kosovo issue, Vecernje Novosti reported. He also told members of the OSCE Permanent Council that the situation in Kosovo remains a serious challenge to European security.

Jevtic with OSCE and UNHCR representatives (KIM radio, Vecernje Novosti)

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Communities and Returns in Resignation Dalibor Jevtic talked to OSCE and UNHCR Heads of Mission in Kosovo, Erol Arduc and Jan Braathu.

The statement of the Ministry says that it was concluded that all institutions, as well as the Ministry of Communities and Returns, " to understand seriously a call for help, and make a step forward so that the return process moves in the direction of the desired result," reported KIM radio.

Slovak FM Lajcak says OSCE monitoring situation in Kosovo (N1, FoNet, Beta)

Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak told Serbia’s heads of state and government that his country, as chair of the OSCE, is carefully monitoring the situation in Kosovo and will continue providing assistance and support to Serbia on its path to the European Union.