President of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art (SANU) Vladimir Kostic said that it was "important to express an opinion and when it is not suitable to the collective mind."

"I will not let someone to determine what I can say and what not and what is a unique opinion corpus which I should adhere to," said Kostic in a statement for the daily Vecernje Novosti.

The Democratic Party of Serbia's (DSS) main board has adopted a pre-election platform, which, among other things, implies and ‘focusing on preserving Kosovo as the part of Serbia,” communicated DSS.

Threats voiced by certain Kosovo political leaders and MPs that people would arrest Isa Mustafa in case that police arrests opposition MPs could even be dangerous for Serbs in Kosovo, said MP from the Serbian List  and leader of the Progressive Democratic Party, Nenad Rašić. “I expect prompt reaction on the side of international representatives with regard to this statement, since they should be aware that this statements reaches all Albanians, extreme groups and many people who are prone to violence”, said Rašić and warned that similar statements could be

Coordinator of the Serbian List, Branimir Stojanović, today voiced disbelief with regard to a statement of the President of the Serbian Academy of Science and Art (SANU) Dr Vladimir Kostić that “we should leave Kosovo with elements of dignity”.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic told ambassadors in Belgrade today that a consideration of the Kosovo's application for admission into UNESCO would have a negative impact on the dialogue in Brussels and that any imposed agreement would be a hotbed of future conflict.

Citizens of Serbia should know what would be jeopardized, most dramatically, if decision is made that we set a Kosovo wall toward the EU and the West, said leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement and former foreign minister Vuk Draskovic.

Leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) Heinz-Christian Strache said that UN Security Council Resolution 1244 would be violated if Kosovo joins UNESCO.

Europe should show whether it wants Serbia in the European family, what values it promotes if it makes possible the so-called state of Kosovo, which unfortunately was in charge of protecting Serbian monasteries and churches, but in fact watched them in flame, to join UNESCO, Strache said.

The political representatives of the Kosovo Serbs, not counting officials of the ruling coalition in Serbia, say that no one in the field was too surprised by what is happening now in connection with the Brussels dialogue and European integration.

Six internally displaced families with 36 members yesterday returned from Montenegro to village Naklo in Peć/Pejë municipality in Kosovo. They returned voluntarily to Kosovo after spending 16 years in Montenegro, following the conflict 1999.

The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) supports Serbia's EU pathway, but we must not and cannot sacrifice Kosovo, Serbian Patriarch Irinej said after a meeting with Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday.