Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti reports that Kadri Veseli, at the beginning of his speech at the Kosovo Assembly's extraordinary session on the dialogue with Serbia, said that Kosovo has one enemy and that is Serbia and only one president who is against the independence of Kosovo, the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

The daily reports that Veseli said he would rather talk about the process of visa liberalization today, but that he advocates for an adoption of a common resolution.

The Serbian Ministry of Defense announced yesterday that Minister of Defense Aleksandar Vulin assessed that ''Pristina’s politician Kadri Veseli's statement that Nis belongs historically to self-proclaimed Kosovo, and that he will conquer it, represented a call for war and new conflicts'', and urged the EU to declare on that occasion, reports Belgrade based daily Blic.

Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin says that it bothers Kadri Veseli that there is Serbia and Serbs in Kosovo, reports Belgrade based daily Blic.

All Serbian media reports today on reply of the Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic to Kadri Veseli saying that Belgrade understood the threats he sent to the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

Stefanovic warned Veseli "not to take any action against the Serbian president".

President of the Assembly of Kosovo Kadri Veseli said that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic may not be allowed to enter Kosovo.

The project “New Mitrovica,” designed by the Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli, has caused a lot of reactions in northern Kosovo these days, Radio kontkat plus reported. NGO Aktiv Programme Director Miodrag Marinkovic opined that the plan looks like a very aggressive political marketing.

Goran Rakic, President of Serbian List issued a statement, as a reaction to the announcements related to Kadri Veseli’s construction plans for “new Mitrovica”, Serbian media reports.

“Kadri Veseli can build towers and towns in the Serbian land only over our dead bodies and I warn him not to try something like that. We did not allow the tanks across the Ibar, on which Veseli’s comrades drove, and thus we will not allow his excavators.''

The statements of politicians in Pristina show that their nervousness is heightened, which means that something does not go the way they have planned and imagined that it has already been solved, and that someone in the international community begins to look at things differently than they hoped to be, said today the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric in a statement.

Kosovo Assembly has applied to become full member of the Parliamentary Assembly of Francophonie, having been an observer since 2014. Kosovo Assembly Speaker, Kadri Veseli, announced the decision after meeting the General Secretary of the Parliamentary Assembly of Francophonie, Jacques Krabal. Veseli said the Parliamentary Assembly of Francophonie is one of the largest international organisations and expressed belief Kosovo will soon gain status of full-fledged member. “This is extraordinary news.

In an interview to the Tirana-based Top Channel, Kosovo Assembly Speaker and leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Kadri Veseli, said Kosovo is an independent and sovereign country and any agreement with Serbia will have to respect these principles. “Kosovo’s goal is to join international organisations, [gain] a seat at the United Nations,” Veseli said adding that this does not mean it will settle for anything that undermines its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Head of Kosovo Assembly, Kadri Veseli, said that that European Union “finally recognised” Kosovo’s progress in implementation of the visa liberalisation criteria. In a Facebook post, Veseli said that there is nothing more important in Kosovo’s European agenda at this stage than visa liberalisation for the people of Kosovo. “Kosovo institutions will address the challenges and remarks identified in the EU report as the only way to strengthen and build a European future for our citizens,” Veseli wrote.