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Stefanović: The request of the Minister of Albania is unacceptable interference in the sovereignty of Serbia (Blic)

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Nebojša Stefanović said today in a letter to the Secretary General of Interpol Jürgen Stock that the request of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Albania for the reassessment of the red warrant for Ramush Haradinaj represented rough and unacceptable interference of one state in sovereignty of the Republic of Serbia.

Petrović: There is no interruption of the proceedings against Haradinaj (Blic)

Head of the War Crimes Prosecutor Milan Petrović said tonight that the proceedings against the former Hague indictee and the leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, who was arrested in Basel on a warrant Serbia, does not become obsolete.

- Office of the War Crimes deals with offenses that do not expire, so proceedings against Ramush Haradinaj will continue until he is alive. There will be no interruption of the proceedings - said Petrović for RTS.

Hotel owner: I told Edita Tahiri to leave because there could be problems (Koha/Blic)

Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri stayed at a hotel in Mitrovica North which was later attacked with a bomb. Sasa Dedovic, the owner of the hotel, told Blic: “She [Tahiri] came with an old car, accompanied by a man, and said she stopped to see the rooms where the Serb employees will be accommodated … I kindly asked her to leave because we could face problems and she quickly left. But before doing so she took pictures and said that the office of the Kosovo Government will be opened there.

Ukraine's ambassador to Serbia: Why are you doing this? (B92, Blic)

Ukraine's Ambassador in Belgrade Oleksandr Aleksandrovych says Serbia's vote against a UN resolution on Crimea "could return like a boomerang."

"There's an English expression - 'to shoot yourself in the foot'. I believe that is exactly what Serbia has done with such a vote, because at some point in the future, such a decision may come back like a boomerang in your efforts to keep Kosovo. I don't understand why you are doing this," Aleksandrovych has told the Belgrade-based newspaper Blic.

Office for KiM: Systematic harassment of an elderly Serb woman in a village near Klina/Klinë (Blic)

Office for Kosovo and Metohija has condemned, according to them, a systematic harassment of 75-year-old Kata Grujić from the village of Donji Petrič, the municipality of Klina/Klinë. In two years she has been robbed six times, and now 25 chickens have been stolen from her.

- Police so far has failed to do anything that this Serb woman gets the opportunity to enjoy in old age peaceful and safe - the Office for Kosovo and Metohija has announced.

The request for Jablanović's dismissal adopted in Leposavić/Leposaviq municipality (RTV Mir, Blic)

Councillors of the Leposavić/Leposaviq Municipal Assembly have asked the Ministry of Administration and Local Self-Government to dismiss Mayor Dragan Jablanović.

At the regular meeting of the Assembly was adopted the request for dismissal, which will be sent to the Ministry of Administration and Local Self-Government in Pristina.

Serbian list: Conditions not met for the return to the institutions of Kosovo (RFE, Blic, KIM radio)

President of the Serbian List Slavko Simić says that conditions are not yet matured enough for the return of the MPs and ministers to the Kosovo institutions, although there is a will and that they are waiting the creation of normal conditions to do so.

Simić said this for Radio Free Europe (RFE), adding that the Kosovo Assembly and the government have no sufficient legitimacy, if representatives of the Serbian community do not participate.

Haradinaj to sue Serbian newspaper Blic (Zeri)

The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj, announced today he will sue Serbian newspaper Blic for defamation and that he expects compensation as well. Haradinaj’s lawyer, Arianit Koci, said he will stay in Belgrade for a few days to gather facts regarding the case. “From what I’ve read, I am really surprised with Blic’s lack of professionalism,” Koci said. “This goes in the category of defamation and we will treat it as such. This can be a long process because it is a sensitive situation.

"Haradinaj's clan smuggling arms through Serbia" - daily (B92, Blic, Vesti)

Former KLA commander and former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj "heads one of the most powerful crime clans in Kosovo."
This is according to the Belgrade-based newspaper Blic, which also claims that the crime group "uses a route through Serbia" to smuggle weapons.

According to the article published on Monday "our citizens are paid good money for the criminal activity."

The daily said that the smuggling is taking place "along the Danube (River)."