The head of the Serbian List Aleksandar Jablanovic said to Srna agency that they didn’t have any contacts or negotiations with any of the possible candidates for the prime minister’s post.

“The information is not correct, which was purposely spread by certain media, that we request seven percent in the government or the parliament. We request seven percent of posts in all Kosovo institutions because that’s what Constitution provides,” Jablanovic explained.

In the eve of a meeting between the Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Ambassador to Serbia Josef Levi said to Tanjug that it will be a meeting between two prime ministers who have the same language.

Levi stressed that Vucic’s visit is important because it highlights a centuries-long friendship between Jewish and Serbian peoples, along with joint goals and challenges.

The leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), Heinz-Christian Strache, accuses Vice-President of the European Parliament, Ulrike Lunacek with regard to Kosovo. He said that Lunacek applies double standards since she called the EU countries to recognize the independence of that Serbian province. As he said, countries that have not recognized the independence of Kosovo are respecting the international law.

Chief of the Mitrovica North Administrative Office, Adriana Hodzic, said that the budget expenditures for that municipality, for 2014, amount to four million, as it was planned. Out of the total of four million allocated for Mitrovica North, three million is distributed for salaries and wages, while just over 600,000 for capital investments.

Agim Qeku, Kosovo Minister of Security Forces (KSF) announced a rapid transformation of KSF in the Kosovo Armed Forces, immediately after the inauguration of the new Kosovo parliament. However, the Law can be passed only if two-thirds majority in the parliament as well at least two thirds of the members of minorities support it. Half of minority MPs are Serbs, which means that some of them should vote for the proposal. But, Serbian MPs deny such a possibility.

Hungary is not planning to increase number of its soldiers in KFOR mission in Kosovo, stated Hungarian Minister of Defense Csaba Hende.

US Secretary of Justice Eric Holder announced that the US will send 70 state prosecutors to the countries of the Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa to help in the fight against terrorists.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić's office said late on Monday that he had refused to receive visiting Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. The reason is that "provocations were to be expected from him," a statement said.

"On the occasion of the provocations of Albanian Premier Edi Rama during his visit to Serbia, the Presidential Service for Media Cooperation is stressing that this kind of behavior was expected from him, which was the key reason why President Tomislav Nikolić refused to meet with him," a statement said.

“In preparing the draft Statute of the Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO), we used elements of different models of the European regions. The South Tyrol drew the most attention and I can say that it is closest model to the ZSO,” said the coordinator of the management team for establishing the ZSO, Ljubomir Maric.

A historian from Albania Koco Danaj, who pledges for the so called ‘natural Albania’, has sent letters to governments of Montenegro, Serbia, Greece and FYR Macedonia requesting them to give parts of their territories for ‘unification of Albanians’.

Today’s edition of Podgorica-based daily Dan published that Danaj has sent them a text of the letter where he insists on ‘self-determination’ of Albanians in other states if, as he said, Republic of Srspka separates from Bosnia and Herzegovina and merge with Serbia.