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.

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.

Srpska Lista said late last night it condemns “senseless and dangerous lies” that some sort “of extraordinary working obligation” was imposed to the institutions of the Republic of Serbia in Kosovo, Danas daily reported.

Srpska Lista said that spreading of such news comes as a part of “crazed campaign” that is, as they say, run for days against Serbia, President Vucic and Srpska Lista, mainly though social networks and portals financed by several embassies, active in Pristina without accreditation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade.

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.

„I don’t want anyone to die either in the North or in the South. I devoted all of my time, a tremendous amount of time, and a tremendous amount of energy to it.“

„You invited me to respond to rude and impudent gossip“ – this is how Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, commented for TV Pink TV information about the „recent scenario of a mutually staged incident in the north of Kosovo to provoke partition in the field.“

“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. It’s easy, but not moral to do so,” SL said in a press statement, TV Most reported.

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.

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.

To get as much as we can, and lose the least we have to, that is what we are fighting for when it comes to Kosovo, under almost impossible conditions.

This is what President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday, adding that he "believes we will not get less than what Serbia had been offered."

In an interview with Pink TV, Vucic pointed out that, while at it, "we are not fighting against the Albanians, but against many Western countries who are behind Kosovo's independence, including the United Kingdom."