Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci, who is visiting Washington, told the "Voice of America" that dismissal of Jablanović should be seen as individual case. 

When asked whether meeting the demands of opposition protesters in Pristina presents a negative message to the representatives of the Serbian community, which is willing to participate in Kosovo institutions, Thaci said that the decision was not directed against the Serbian community.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, who will attend the traditional national prayer breakfast in Washington on Thursday, said this morning that he had very good meetings with U.S. administration officials at the U.S. Congress and State Department and that they had stressed their support for reforms and objectives pursued by the Serbian government. “The United States supports the reforms in Serbia.

Natasa Kandic, Project Coordinator of the "Kosovo Memory Book", said in Pristina that the book documents the crimes in Kosovo, it is important to tell the truth, to shed light on the events, and the courts to be informed and to prosecute those responsible for the deaths of more than ten thousand people.

Kandic said that at the promotion of the "Kosovo Memory Book" in which is documented the death and disappearance of more than 10,000 Serbs, Albanians and non-Albanians and more than 3,000 members of the KLA, Serbian forces, KFOR.

Kosovo PM Isa Mustafa endangered the confidence of Serbs in the Brussels dialogue, by the decision to dismiss Minister of Communities and Returns Aleksandar Jablanović, was stated from the Movement of Socialists (PS). "According to the requirements of the Brussels Agreement, the real Serbian representatives should present the interests of the Serbs in Pristina’s institutions. Jablanović was doing exactly that. In Pristina, those efforts could not be forgiven to him, but the Serbs, regardless of the fact where they live, are grateful for that," reads the statement. 

Kosovars have become the largest group of applicant for asylum in Austria in January. They, as stated, with submitted 1,029 applications, surpassed and Syrians, who are fleeing the war in their country.

In January, 910 persons from Syria applied for asylum, and in third place were asylum seekers from Afghanistan (622), and then Iraq (286).

Last year, the Syrians were the largest group of refugees seeking asylum in Austria and second were Afghans, and Russians and then the citizens of Kosovo.

Kosovo parliament MP, and former minister for labor and social welfare, Nenad Rasic said last night that Minister for Communities and Return, Aleksandar Jablanovic, should resign on moral grounds.

“Jablanovic’s statement had upset many Albanians,” said Rasic to Pristina-based TV Klan and added that he should also resign due to everything that followed, including protests.

MP of the opposition Self-determination Movement Ilir Deda said that the protests in Kosovo are not directed against Serbs. Still, Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government Aleksandar Jablanović "must resign" and that is clear to all political factors in Kosovo. 

Deda has announced that the opposition protests in Kosovo will be discontinued if Jablanović leave the government and if Government of Kosovo promise that in the short term the law on forming Trepca as a public company will be sent to the Assembly. 

Minister for Communities and Returns in Kosovo Government Aleksandar Jablanović will soon resign, reports the Pristina television KTV quoting "reliable sources". According to these sources Jablanović decided to resign after a request of leaders of LDK and PDK, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa and Hashim Thaci, who requested him to do so several times. 

The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Kosovo, Farid Zarif, commended proportionate response of the police during yesterday unrest in Pristina, and said that democratic rights are not exercised through violence.

UNMIK expressed concern by the recent events in Pristina city centre. Such acts have nothing to do with the exercise of the democratic right to express legitimate grievances, stated UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).

The Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government, Aleksandar Jablanovic, will pay a visit to internally displaced Serbs who live in Prokuplje (Serbia proper) on Wednesday.

Jablanovic said to Tanjug that he will visit displaced Serbs from Kosovo who live in Serbia proper and visit few internally displaced Serb families from Đakovice/Gjakovë who live in Prokuplje and surrounding.