The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, said that establishment of Kosovo’s army is already a necessity. “I have undertaken the legal initiative for KSF being convinced that all the possibilities to create it through the Constitution were exhausted. This also came as a need being that Kosovo cannot be part of NATO without an army. The common denominator is that Kosovo institutions, parliamentary parties as well as the civil society and the citizens are for the army,” Thaci said at a debate organized by FOL Movement.

Representatives of the Albanian political parties at coalition government and those of the opposition parties, met on Friday afternoon. Media were not allowed at the meeting where deputy leaders of the political parties reportedly discussed the current political issues.

During the election campaign Kosovo was not much of a topic for the presidential candidates in Serbia. Some have visited Kosovo but without much fanfare, and the winner although he announced his Leposavić's election rally, dropped out of the visit.

According to the head of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić, Vučić has won the votes of 80 per cent of voters who on Sunday went to the polls.

Nenad Rasic, Kosovo Assembly MP from the Serbian List, said today that the dialogue with Serbia should not be interrupted, because this would block things even more. “I feel your pain but it is not being done enough by both sides to understand each other. The dialogue process is something that will continue. “ Rasic made these comments during a round-table organized by Kosovo’s Democratic Institute entitled “Suspension of Dialogue: Impact on Kosovo’s integration in the European Union.”

EU officials have called on representatives of the Kosovo government to abandon any further delays in establishing the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO).

Tanjug is reporting this on Thursday, citing a statement issued by the EU office in Kosovo.

It was published after a meeting in Brussels of "the special group on normalization of relations with Serbia under the EU-Kosovo Stabilization and Association Agreement."

Despite the agreement between Pristina and Belgrade for free and unimpeded movement, for those who carry Kosovo documents through Serbia as well as Belgrade and Nis airports, “Air Serbia” still does not accept these documents, reports RFE.

This portal further brings concrete experiences of people possessing Kosovo passports, who were rejected to use this airline to travel to different destinations, with the justification that they should possess a valid passport such as that from Serbia or Albania.

Secretary General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Veljko Odalović told RTK2 that the decision of the Kosovo government to appropriate Serbia's property sends a clear message "that Albanians do not want to solve the issues through dialogue, as we have agreed."

Several media cover an interview that Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa gave to Dnevni Abaz, highlighting his remarks that the process of normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina is quite difficult. “It is a very difficult process. Serbia’s is interfering greatly in Kosovo’s internal arrangements, especially in the northern part of the country. We want to integrate Serbs in all our institutions. There are parallel structures operating in Kosovo with Serbia’s backing. We see no reason whatsoever why this should continue,” he said.

The liaison officer of the Government of Serbia in Pristina Dejan Pavićević warns that a series of unilateral moves of the provisional institutions of self-government in Kosovo endanger the position of the Serbian people and damage interethnic relations in Kosovo. He said this in talks with UNMIK Chief Zahir Tanin and Head of the EU Office in Kosovo Nataliya Apostolova, RTS reports.

Representatives of the Serbs in Kosovo assess that the decision of the Kosovo government to halt the dialogue with Belgrade until Haradinaj’s release represented an attempt to pressure the EU. The Serbs' representatives have supported all the views of the Council for the National Security, and reiterate they would continue the policy in line with the current policy of Belgrade.