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.

Vitomir Ilic (58) from the village of Korminjane, near Ranilug arrested yesterday by Kosovo police was released today, RTV Puls reports. There are no proceedings launched against him, his lawyer Vasilije Arsic confirmed to RTV Puls. Vitomir Ilic, retired member of Serbian MUP was suspected of taking part in the Serbian police action in the village of Zegovce, Gnjilane municipality. However, during the interrogation, it was confirmed Ilic was not in Gnjilane region at that time, but in other part of Kosovo, Serbian media reported.

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.

In a press statement issued this week, Fatherland Movement pointed out that “the message of Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade Li Manchang to the Serbian authorities not to hurry to resolve the status of Kosovo and Metohija is a sincere and friendly advice”, because “they waited for nearly a hundred years to take back Macau from the Portuguese and Hong Kong from the British and that Resolution 1244 clearly states that Kosovo and Metohija is part of the Republic of Serbia,” NSPM political portal reported. Fatherland recalled the statement of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin,

Amid growing nervousness in Serb-majority northern Kosovo, NATO commander says the alliance is more than ready to deal with any trouble on the streets. The Commander of NATO’s Allied Joint Force in Naples, Admiral James Fogo, has said that NATO is ready to react if violent incidents erupt in the Serb-majority north of Kosovo – after a leading Serbian Orthodox cleric in Kosovo, Abbot Sava Janjic, warned of the risk of “staged” violence there. “Political leaders are trying to solve some difficult issues; not everyone agrees in democracies,” Fogo said on Wednesday during a tour of NATO sites in