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Dacic: Serb status in KiM unacceptable, below CoE standards (Blic, Tanjug)

OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic stated on Tuesday that the position of Serbs in Kosovo is unacceptable and is far below the Council of Europe (CoE) standards in terms of respect for human rights.

He underscored that Serbia supports every CoE effort aimed at improvement of CoE standards in Kosovo to the benefit of all people living there which is in keeping with the legally binding international documents, primarily UNSC Resolution 1244.

Today the continuation of the technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina (Blic)

Technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina on issues of telecommunications, vehicle insurance and integrated management of crossings will continue today in Brussels. Marko Djuric, Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija will lead Belgrade's team.

Odalovic: Serbia and Albania could be pillar of stability (RTS, NMagazin, Blic)

Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Veljko Odalovic has stated that it was important for Serbia and Albania to devote to the recent events in Kumanovo, FYROM and that these two countries could be a pillar of stability in the region.

Odalovic told the RTS that the visit takes place at a delicate moment, but it would be important that Serbia and Albania deal primarily with the events in Kumanovo.

Conflict "cannot spread" from FYROM – official (B92, Blic)

President of the Coordinating Body for Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac, Zoran Stankovic says it is "not possible" for the conflict in Macedonia "to spill over."

"The services in charge are doing their job, carrying out assessments of the situation on a daily basis, not only in Macedonia, but also in other surrounding countries," Stankovic stressed.

"All activities are being undertaken, such as raising the combat alertness and dispatching a smaller number of people to those territories," he was quoted as saying.

At a closed session of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija on the events in Kumanovo (Blic)

Meeting of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija will be held today and will be closed to the public. The members of this parliamentary body shall be informed about the current security situation in Kosovo on the occasion of the events in Macedonia.

According to the statement of parliament, the session will consider information marked with the level of classification, which is why a session shall be closed to the public in accordance with the Decision on handling classified information.

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Preamble should be left even as "a constitutional imagination" (Blic)

Any change of the Constitution should be well planned. The parts of the Constitution should be changed, while the preamble should be left, said Professor of the Constitutional law Vladan Petrov. “My thesis does not correspond to the theses of politicians, since we are not changing the Constitution for the EU, but for us. It is necessary to correct some additional guarantees, mechanisms and solutions that bring us closer to the ideal of the rule of law,” he said.

Situation in Kosovo and southern Serbia is calm (Blic)

The situation in Kosovo and southern Serbia is calm, there is no indication that there may be a complication of the situation, said Zoran Stankovic, President of the Coordination Centre for Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja.

 "Assessments are made on a daily basis, they have been performed and in the past, and security structures are constantly in the field and they carry out assessment of the situation," said Stankovic visiting the B92.