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Gracanica Mayor: The meeting a confirmation of unity between state top and the Serbian List (RTS)

President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic to meet today political representatives of Serbs in Kosovo.

Gracanica Mayor Srdjan Popovic told RTS that the meeting will confirm the unity between the state top and the Serbian List.

Before the session of the Serbian parliament on Kosovo scheduled for Monday, Vucic will speak with the political representatives of the Serbs from Kosovo in the Palace Serbia.

German soldiers to remain in KFOR, government says (N1, FoNet)

Germany will keep its soldiers in Kosovo as part of KFOR for another year because the situation there is unstable, Deutsche Welle reported.

The German government took the decision to keep the Bundeswehr troops in KFOR because it feels that the potential exists for conflicts, especially in the north of Kosovo, it said.

Three Serbian high school girls experienced an incident during hitchhiking (Kontakt plus)

Mayor of Gracanica, Srdjan Popovic, strongly condemned yesterday's incident that happened to three high school girls.

KIM radio reported that three girls were hitchhiking, when an Albanian stopped and gave them the ride, but refused to stop on the way to school which is in Laplje Selo. The case was confirmed to KIM radio by Bratislav Trajkovic, a commander of the police station in Gracanica.

Crime and freedom of movement are the biggest security problems in Kosovo (Kontakt plus radio, KoSSev, KIM radio)

The biggest security problem for the Serb community in the North of Kosovo is crime and for the Serbs South of Ibar freedom of movement - says the research within the project "Did the Brussels Agreement Forgotten Citizens" conducted by NGO "Crno Beli Svet" (Black and White World) and TV Mir based in Leposavic.

Drecun: The British have placed the north under intensified observation and interfere with the mobile telecommunications (KoSSev)

After the British government sent a warning to its citizens not to travel to municipalities in the north of Kosovo due to risks of security incidents, thus causing intense reactions in the public, the UK government in Pristina issued a statement that the British embassy ''advised against all but essential travel to the northern municipalities for several years, due to a number of recent violent incidents linked to organised crime in northern Kosovo. ''

Marko Jaksic: We’re coming to Belgrade on April 13 (Danas)

Marko Jaksic, lawyer, former councillor of the CI SDP - Oliver Ivanovic in North Mitrovica municipality and one of the organizers of the “#1 in 5 million protest” in this city confirmed to the Belgrade based daily Danas that the “citizens who participate in protests in Kosovo will come to Belgrade on April 13”.

KFOR Commander: We do not train staff and do not equip KSF (Kontakt plus radio, RTK2, Blic)

Major-General Lorenzo D'Addario said that KFOR was ready for any scenario when it comes to the final agreement between Pristina and Belgrade and assessed the security situation in Kosovo as satisfactory.

KFOR Commander Lorenzo D’Addario, in a RTK2 show, said that it was important that the solution of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina satisfies both parties.

Petronic: Security has deteriorated, there are bigger problems than the bridge (Kontakt plus radio)

Director of Human Centre Mitrovica NGO, Veroljub Petronic told Radio Kontakt that the latest events in Staro Gracko are only one of the few security risks that contribute to the worsening of the overall security situation in Kosovo. He says in an interview with the radio that event in Staro Gracko last night was just one of the “small corps of security risks that contribute to the destabilization of the security situation in Kosovo”.

The security of the Western Balkan the top agenda of the EU interior ministers (B92)

EU ministers are to discuss new security initiatives with the Western Balkans in what is seen as the first step toward EU accession.

Brussels has said it hopes the Western Balkan states will join the bloc by 2025.

European interior ministers convened in Brussels on Thursday to discuss how the bloc will coordinate its latest security and migration policies with Western Balkan states.

"Terrorists can reach Europe from Balkans within hours" (B92)

A former chief of the Czech Army has warned that the EU is not paying attention to the Western Balkans - and is thus allow "terrorists to rest in the region."

"We are dealing with an entirely different part of Europe, that is, Western and Central Europe, and we have stopped paying attention to the Balkans since the 1990s war, especially security-wise," Jiri Sedivy has told the Czech media, according to Beta agency.