Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s close associate, Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said he would advise the president to do nothing about Kosovo and leave the problem to someone else.
Stefanovic told Monday’s issue of Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti that it would be hard to find a solution to the Kosovo problem in 2019.
The Serbian government Office for Kosovo chief Marko Djuric said that Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and Albania representatives statement after the signing of the agreement on the abolition of border crossings show the true “Greater Albania nature of the Pristina regime.”
"Political rampage, like this, only creates fertile ground for new conflicts and distances the region from the solution," Djuric said and appealed to the international community to stop "Pristina's chauvinistic euphoria" that contributes to the acceleration of tensions.
The Kosovo Albanian political elite is in a panic after Prime Minister Ana Brnabic informed the world about their unlawful and anti-civilization measures, Serbian government official Marko Djuric said in a written statement to the media.
A Kosovo human rights activist has expressed doubts about justice for Albanian and Serb victims of the conflict in the 1990s.
Bekim Blakaj, Director of the Humanitarian Law Centre Kosovo, told Belgrade daily Danas that he fears that most of the victims will not receive justice.
“We have no one convicted for the murder of Serbs. The Albanian victims in Kosovo have seen no justice, let alone the Serbs,” he said.
A Serbian government official said there has never been any official talk about the annexation to Kosovo of three municipalities in southern Serbia.
Zoran Stankovic, head of the Coordination Body for Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja said an exchange of territories was only mentioned by some Kosovo Albanian political leaders.
Peace in the Balkans is not in as much danger as it was in the 1990s but there are risks of instability, dissatisfaction and minor conflicts, Johns Hopkins University professor Daniel Serwer told regional broadcaster N1 on Tuesday.
He believes there is no direct threat to peace in the region, adding that Kosovo has had Security Forces for a while and that it will take 10 years to turn those forces into a military.
European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini on Tuesday called the authorities in Pristina to revoke the 100 percent tariffs on goods from Serbia and warned that the alternative to the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is dangerous.
The assassination of Kosovo Serb political leader Oliver Ivanovic remains unsolved 11 months after it happened, Ivanovic’s party senior official Ksenija Bozovic told N1, warning that no detail on perpetrator in this case has been found.
The investigation into Ivanovic’s death has not progressed at all but his party, SDP initiative, will continue exerting pressure on the Prosecutor’s Office in Pristina in hope to get new information, Bozovic said.
Regional broadcaster N1 reports that Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric told reporters in the Government of Serbia that Kosovo Army for Serbia is an illegal armed formation on the territory of Serbia, formed with an aim of violently changing the borders of the country.
"The decision on its formation aims at violent change of the borders of our country and violation of the established position of our southern province by the Constitution and international," Djuric told reporters.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says, in Trstenik after opening the factory, he hopes that the international community understands that Serbia is in a difficult situation on the occasion of the announced formation of the Kosovo Army, adding it is the duty of the authorities (of Serbia) to protect "their face and national pride" without entering into conflicts, reports the regional broadcaster N1.