Although the establishment of the Chamber Investment Forum has shown itself to be a great move that's yielding tangible results in terms of increases level of trade and business cooperation, support from the governments of the region remains insufficient. We see one possible solution to this in the establishment of ministries for regional cooperation within each government, just as Nordic countries have regional cooperation ministers

Serbian Trade and Telecommunication Minster, Rasim Ljajic told Prva TV, Serbs in Kosovo should act like Albanians did during the nineties.  

According to him, Serbs should inform all international organizations about what is happening to them, same as Albanians did earlier.

Commenting on the stoning incident in Istok, that took place yesterday, Ljajic said this incident has nothing to do with politics, but with fundamental rights and the security of the people who were targets of attacks just because they belong to different religion.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivica Dacic said Kosovo “would fail” at the voting for membership in Interpol, despite of allocating millions of euros to become part of this international organization, BETA news agency reported.

“Without agreement (with Belgrade) there is no membership in any international organization. They would fail at the voting for Interpol, as they did for UNESCO,” Dacic added.

European Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said that solving Kosovo issue was not the only condition for Serbia’s membership to the European Union, adding that the rule of law and good governance remained in the center of the negotiations, Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti daily reports today.

Still, Hahn said, Belgrade should finalize and permanently implement an agreement with Pristina that would contribute to the regional stability.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic was the only speaker at the final panel of the 8^th Belgrade Security Forum, KoSSev portal reported.

She talked about the „burden“ which „Kosovo represents for the Serbian government“ and assessed that the current frozen conflict in Kosovo is creating „schizophrenic situations“ in the government’s work – as she has to go from a meeting on Serbia’s full membership in CERN, to the meetings during which she listens to the reports on armed threats.

„We have endured greater evil and troubles – the Ottoman Empire, Nazism, fascism, and communism, we will probably endure scraps of all what has happened to us in the past, particularly in Kosovo and Metohija,“ the Metropolitan of Montenegro Amfilohije said, KoSSev portal reports.

He criticized the idea of the ethnic delimitation proposed by the Serbian President as a solution to the Kosovo issue, which, as Vucic himself said earlier this year, he had always advocated.

Two buses transporting Orthodox believers from Belgrade were stoned yesterday in the village of Studenica near the town of Istok, the Kosovo police spokesperson for the region of Pec, Xhevat Ibraj, confirmed after Serbian media reported on the case.

“Buses transporting a group of 170 Serbs who came to the village of Studenica were stoned and thier windows were damaged by insofar unknown perpetrators. Police have taken all necessary measures to find the perpetrators, while the public prosecutor was also notified about this case,“ Ibraj told RTK2.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic underlined on Friday that Serbia highly appreciates Slovakia's partnership and support on the country's path to EU membership.

During her meeting in Belgrade on Friday with Slovak Deputy Prime Minister for Investments and Information Richard Rasi, Brnabic also informed the Slovak minister about "the latest provocations and unacceptable actions of the provisional institutions of self-government in Pristina."

Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache has spoken out against Kosovo's membership in Interpol, as well as against the formation of an army in Kosovo.

Strache pointed this out after his meeting with Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic in Vienna on Friday.

At a joint press conference, Strache said that questions regarding Kosovo's membership in Interpol and formation of an army cannot be given a positive answer until the issue of Kosovo has been resolved at the UN level.

Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, State Secretary, Dijana Hrkalovic met with Angola Ambassador to Serbia Emilio Jose de Carvalho Guerra and presented to him Serbia’s arguments against the request of the so-called Kosovo to joint Interpol, Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti reports.

The Ambassador Guerra noted that his country did not and will not recognize unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo, as well as that it supports the stance of Serbia when it comes to Pristina request to join Interpol, Vecernje Novosti reported.