Three-quarters of surveyed citizens of Serbia supports dialogue with Pristina, while only nine percent to stop this process, showed a survey by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP).

According to the same study, which was carried out under the heading "Attitude of citizens of Serbia and security dialogue with Pristina," the majority of citizens, 74 percent, was against the armed conflict in order to preserve Kosovo within Serbia.

The Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, pointed out, in an interview with Beta news agency, the necessity to reduce the current tensions in the Western Balkan, in order to avoid incidents and clashes, and pointed out that NATO "realizes its part in the construction of the security with regional partners”.

Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, said today during the Assembly session that if opposition parties had been in power, they would also be engaged in the dialogue with Serbia. He said a great deal of energy is being put on opposing dialogue instead of focusing on economic and social development. “There is no alternative to dialogue. All the motions and debates initiated at the Assembly have a common denominator which is either halting dialogue with Serbia or conditioning it. Dialogue with Serbia is in the interest of Kosovo,” Mustafa said.

Head of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) parliamentary group, Zenun Pajaziti, has called on all political parties to speak in one voice about the situation in the north and the dialogue with Serbia. He said the launch of debate on these issues is “a political agenda” and that Kosovo has more important things to think about such as European integration. Pajaziti also called on Kosovo Serb representatives to return to the Assembly.

The prefix of Kosovo +383 can be used from today, and it will save millions to Kosovo and Vala operator. “The today’s day is only the beginning of the implementation of the new prefix, while we can tell you that by the end of the year, the +381 prefix for Kosovo telecom will not exist. With the new prefix, all illegal operators will vanish,” said the director of Kosovo Telecom, Agron Mustafa. “We have decided today to launch the state prefix which will be used for landline and mobile services. From today, we have the possibility to replace it step by step.

The United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Asia, Brian Hoyt Yee, said that the United States of America fully support dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, the lowering of tensions and direct communication between the two parties. Yee made these remarks after meeting Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic in Washington. The meeting focused on the EU-brokered dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade.

President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, and Serbian Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vucic, in a telephone conversation ahead of their meeting in Brussels reaffirmed the need for de-escalating tensions and resolving outstanding issues through dialogue. Sources in Brussels told RFE that the telephone conversation between the two leaders took place Wednesday morning.

At today's meeting between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels, one of the topics could be the implementation of the agreement on the judiciary. Dušan Radaković from the Centre for representation of the democratic culture believes that things should coincide with a dialogue so the judiciary can be revitalized. Radaković points out for RTV KIM that the rule of law in the north is necessary because of safety, but he believes that the court will not be functional before June.

Ramush Haradinaj, the detained leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), told Radio Free Europe today that he might return to Kosovo next week as the court proceedings against him are expected to be concluded by mid next week. He said the accusations against him by Belgrade authorities are “a political game on the eve of elections”. “This is a mindset from times of war that has returned to Belgrade and it correlates with the upcoming elections there. This however does not mean that all of the Balkans and Albanians should submit to this mindset.

The paper’s correspondent from Brussels, Augustin Palokaj, writes in an opinion piece that the biggest mistake the EU is making while facilitating the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina is by not allowing the parties to make comments on what they’ve been discussing in closed meetings. The lack of information about what exactly the parties have agreed to, according to Palokaj, has led to so much opposition to the dialogue. How can the citizens support something if they don’t know what that is, Palokaj notes.