The arrest warrant issued for Kosovo President Hashim Thaci is still valid in Serbia, "as the procedure against him is ongoing," says the justice minister.

"There has already been a final ruling in the process against Thaci, for the crime of terrorism," Nela Kuburovic said on Wednesday, and added:

Kosovo businessman and former President Behgjet Pacolli is sparing no expense in order to secure the release of Ramush Haradinaj, writes the daily Blic.

Pacolli, who is considered to be "the richest Albanian," has put his fortune in the service of Haradinaj's freedom, the Belgrade-based paper said.

The Serbian Ministry of Justice has sent an extradition request for Ramush Haradinja to the French judicial authorities.

Tanjug reported this on Tuesday, citing ministry sources.

Along the extradition request, Serbia sent the accompanying documentation translated into French, based on which the French judicial authorities will decide whether conditions have been met to extradite Haradinaj.

Information about Albanians' plan to attack a Serbian embassy over the arrest of Ramush Haradinaj came from a security service of a western country.

This is what Beta reported Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic as telling state broadcaster RTS, who also rejected claims of Serbia "making it up, or planning to do this itself in order to blame the Albanians."

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić will not travel to Kosovo and Metohija, where he was to spend Friday, January 6, Christmas Eve.

Serbian Orthodox Christians will celebrate Christmas on January 7, according to the Julian Calendar.

Nikolić was to spend the day in Štrpce, his press service announced on Wednesday.

Should Kosovo become a UNESCO member, the consequences for the Serb identity and cultural heritage in the province would be unforeseeable.

This is according to Serbian Ambassador to UNESCO Darko Tanaskovic.

In that case, UNESCO documents would list medieval Serbian monuments, churches and monasteries as cultural assets in the territory of a "state of Kosovo", rather than in Serbia, Tanaskovic has told Jedinstvo.

The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, that started in 2013 with the signing of the Brussels agreement, is still far from over, and will continue this year as well.

Experts assess that the Trump administration could ease the pressure on Belgrade.

Monarchies, socialist, one party-states, the war-time 1990s, followed by two decades of transition, have not brought Serbs and Albanians closer together over the past 100 years.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says he is "on good terms with representatives of all countries - especially after (their) visits to Serbia."

But, he added, his dearest guest in Belgrade is Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, "the first I call when Serbia has a problem."

Belgrade will, along with representatives of Serbs, start forming the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo after February 15.

Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said this on Wednesday.

The events will unfold in that way unless the authorities in Pristina start fulfilling their obligations related to the formation of the ZSO by Sretenje (Feb. 15, Serbia's Statehood Day), Djuric said.

The Serb List (Srpska Lista) has announced that its representatives have frozen their participation in the work of the Kosovo Assembly and in the government.

A statement signed by the head of the ticket's parliamentary group, and president of the Serb List, Slavko Simic, also said that Mirjana Jevtic will leave the Kosovo Ministry of Local Self-Government.

"(Serbian PM) Aleksandar Vucic is the head of our only government and his authority is indisputable, both for us and for all Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija," the statement said, and added: