A court in Pristina has issued arrest warrants for four Serbs, former Kosovo Police officers charged with smuggling goods from Serbia, the Insajderi portal reported on Thursday.

The court is reported to have issued the arrest warrants on August 2, the KoSSev portal said.

Insajderi said that the four former police officers are suspected of abusing their powers by smuggling goods illegally across the border in both directions.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told the Voice of America that Serbia can’t recognize Kosovo in the current circumstances.

He said the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue needs to be continued to reach a compromise solution. “We can talk about everything only if it’s about a compromise. They will never get my signature to give the Albanians everything and Serbia nothing. At this moment I am the president of Serbia, you can find someone else who will accept that without a compromise, following ultimatums only,” he said.

The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) marked the 21st anniversary of the abduction of two Radio Pristina journalists with a demand to EULEX, UNMIK and war crime prosecutors in Serbia and Kosovo to renew their investigations into the murders and abductions of journalists and media staff in Kosovo.

Togo, a West African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, became the 15th country which withdrew the recognition of Kosovo, according to Sputnik, a Russian state media outlet, as carried by the Srna news agency.

Sputnik said it got the news confirmed by diplomatic sources. Last week, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic announced the latest withdrawal but refused to name the country.
Media speculated it was Togo.

Serbian Ambassador in Moscow Miroslav Lazanski told Serbian public broadcaster RTS on Tuesday that Washington does not consider the Kosovo issue closed.

He says that today's meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and US State Secretary Mike Pompeo shows that Washington insist on the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue to continue.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on the margins of a debate at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, the state department said in a press release.

Belgrade is finding the ways to supply the Serbs in the north of Kosovo despite pressures and increased police controls, Head of the Government’s Kosovo and Metohija Office Marko Djuric told Serbian media.

Speaking for the Politika daily, Djuric said it was so important that the Serbs showed solidarity and readiness to fight for their fundamental human rights in a peaceful way. “Without that, our efforts would be in vain,” he added.

The Supreme Court of North Macedonia confirmed Tomor Morina, a former soldier of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) would not be extradited to Serbia despite Interpol warrant issued on Belgrade’s request, the Beta news agency reported on Wednesday.

After going through the documents that Belgrade sent on August 5, and having in mind the international practice so far, Skopje’s Criminal Court said a week ago that the conditions for Morina’s extradition were not met.

Serbian Culture Minister Vladan Vukosavljevic sent a note to the Vatican protesting what he said were tensions caused by Albanian Catholic priests who served mass on the ruins of a Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo.

Albanian Catholic priests recently served mass on the ruins of the 14th century Orthodox cathedral of St Nicholas which was destroyed in an earthquake. Serbian media reported that the Albanian clergy and politicians had declared the church a Catholic temple.

Fisnik Halimi, an analyst from Pristina, said on Thursday no one from Washington ever said that US National Security Advisor John Bolton would visit Serbia or Kosovo, and added that America was entering its election phase and that Pristina – Belgrade problem should be solved until the beginning of 2020 at the latest, N1 reported.