Milorad Dodik says Republika Srpska will demand a UN seat if Kosovo gets one – adding that Kosovo’s partition should also be up for discussion. If Kosovo becomes a member of the United Nations and other international institutions, Bosnia’s mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, RS, will demand the same, Milorad Dodika, the RS President, told Friday’s Vecernje Novosti, a Serbian daily. Dodik told the newspaper that back in 2008, after Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia, the RS Assembly adopted a resolution stating that, “the RS will seek statehood status in case

President Aleksandar Vucic and Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej would meet tomorrow in the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade, SRNA news agency reported, quoting President’s press service. The meeting is scheduled to take place tomorrow at 11.00 and press statement would be issued following the meeting, Serbian media added.

The Serbian Government has broadened the tasks of a commission set up to evaluate facts discovered during investigations into murders of journalists. This decision has been made in order to secure, through coordination of services of the Republic of Serbia and cooperation with journalists and similar institutions from the region, that the fight against the impunity for murders of journalists is continued, the government announced on Thursday. In addition, this document has been adopted in order to contribute to the clearing up of murders of journalists in the conflicts in the Socialist Feder

Albanian Minister Pandeli Majko saying that "the border between Albania and Kosovo" will be opened starting on January 1 "lacks seriousness and responsibility." Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric reacted in this way on Thursday, adding that the statement of the Albanian minister in charge of the diaspora only served to further aggravate relations in the region. "Enver Hoxha is dead, while Greater Albania there is not happening and will come to nothing.

Members of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (SANU), professors and journalists sent a protest statement “over attacks against the Serbian Orthodox Church and Raska-Prizren Eparchy,” Serbian media reported. “The public in Serbia is appalled by unscrupulous attacks of the Serbian authorities and Srpska Lista, political party from Kosovo and Metohija against political opponents. Media persecution of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Bishop Teodosije and Raska-Prizren Eparchy was launched only because they oppose an idea on Kosovo division between Serbia and future Great Albania.

Belgrade-based daily Danas on its front-page reports today on polemics that surfaced following warning of Abbot Sava Janjic on possible staged incidents in the north of Kosovo. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in an interview to TV Pink called warnings “idle talks” adding that nothing has happened, and nothing would happen. Danas reported that Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj paid a visit to the Bondsteal US camp at his personal request and met with a base commander Nick Ducich.

„I don’t want anyone to die either in the North or in the South.

“It is easy to be in the opposition today, from comfortable armchairs, with pockets that were made full by the acts made during the previous regime, and speak against their state, President Vucic and Srpska Lista.