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Great powers have reacted, Vucic says (BETA, B92)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced today that "great powers" have reacted to the events in Zubin Potok. According to him, these power said that the operation of Kosovo special police forces has nothing to do with the fight against crime, but that this is about excessive measures.

"This is good news, I said - Serbia will win," Vucic said at the session of the Serbian Assembly.

He previously reiterated that in Zubin Potok, special Kosovo police forces fired live ammunition over the heads of unarmed Serbs.

"Serbia ready to protect Serbian people in Kosovo" (Serbian Government, media)

President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said today that in the operation of a special units ROSU and FIT, 23 persons of Serb and Bosniak ethnicity have been arrested in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, mostly members of the Kosovo police.

Speaking in the Serbian Parliament after the session of the National Security Council, Vucic said that this was an attempt to completely criminalise the Serbian people, who is more anxious than ever.

Dodik: This is a fight against survival of Serbs in Kosovo (Danas, SRNA)

Chairman of Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Milorad Dodik said today’s operation of the Kosovo police special units in the north is a serious blow to the fragile peace in Kosovo and Metohija and an attempt to provoke a new exodus of the Serbs, Danas daily reports.

He told SRNA news agency Serbia has the right to protect its people that remained unprotected even by the international forces that should guarantee the peace to them and Albanians in Kosovo.

Serbian National Security Council meets in Belgrade (RTS)

Serbian public broadcaster RTS reports that the National Security Council is currently having a session on the situation in the northern Kosovo, following Kosovo police ROSU units intrusion. RTS added President Aleksandar Vucic warned the EU, Serbia shall react if ROSU does not withdraw from the north of Kosovo and Metohija.

Movements of Serbian Army and police in direction of Kosovo are also noticed. President Vucic would address Serbian Assembly MPs and Serbian citizens about the latest events at 10.30, RTS reported.

President Vucic: No evidence in case of Bytyqi brothers killing, no arrests

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday there was no evidence on who was involved in the murder of the Bytyqi brothers in 1999, BETA news agency reported. Addressing the Parliament with the Kosovo issue on the agenda, Vucic said that “the people were killed and the crime was committed.”

Pristina will retaliate immediately to Serbia and Bosnia measures (BETA, TV N1)

Kosovo Minister of Trade and Industry Endrit Shala said on Monday Pristina would immediately introduce new measures against Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina if the two countries retaliated by implementing counter-measures against 100 percent import tariffs on their goods, BETA news agency reported.

Vucic to speak at least 2 hours - without announcing plan on Kosovo (Blic, Tanjug, B92)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic would today present to the National Assembly a detailed report on the current negotiations on resolving the issue of Kosovo and Metohija. However, no detailed plan of the Serbian side which will be offered to Pristina would be presented at the session, Belgrade-based daily Blic reports referring to unnamed sources.

The source also stated that the details of the plan with which the president intends to go before Pristina and the international community will not be announced, so as not to jeopardize Serbia's negotiating position.

Srpska Lista after meeting President Vucic: “Ready to abandon these institutions again if needed“ (KoSSev)

“People who voted for Oliver Ivanovic in the previous elections now voted for Goran Rakic,” Mitrovica Hospital Centre Director Milan Ivanovic said on Friday, adding this shows that the Serbs did not kill Ivanovic, KoSSev portal reported.

Kosovo Serb representatives met with the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric in Belgrade on Friday. In a joint meeting seven conclusions were adopted. During the press conference after the meeting Djuric noted it was one of “the most meaningful, perhaps one of the best meetings.”

Rada Trajkovic, Srpska Lista with different statements on Oliver Ivanovic’s murder case (BETA, RTV KIM, KoSSev, TV Most)

Serb European Movement in Kosovo and Metohija Chair Rada Trajkovic has said the President Aleksandar Vucic is slowing down the investigation into the murder of Oliver Ivanovic by "providing abolition to Milan Radoicic," who is suspected by Kosovo prosecution of being involved in this case. Trajkovic made these remarks in RTV KIM broadcast “Dogovor” KoSSev portal reported.