BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolic believes that "attacks on the (army) chief of staff" are an attempt to "humiliate everything good done in Serbia" recently.

Rejection, Lumir Abdixhiku writes that rejection towards the political system in Kosovo accumulated for years, and it was well-known that someday it would outburst. This sadness could have been felt everywhere, from family conversations to the reporting of the broadcasters on migration, corruption, luxury and political irresponsibility. “This could be felt at a cafeteria, among friends, in the streets, so everywhere.

Large anti-government protests organised by ethnic Albanian opposition parties erupted in Kosovo’s capital Pristina this week, more than a month after parliamentarians there approved a new coalition government. The protests were the largest since Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Many Kosovars are dissatisfied with the new government, which has just ended a six-month political stalemate that followed the parliamentary elections of last June. In the wake of a Serb politician's denial of war crimes against ethnic Albanians during

Kosovo parliament MP, and former minister for labor and social welfare, Nenad Rasic said last night that Minister for Communities and Return, Aleksandar Jablanovic, should resign on moral grounds. “Jablanovic’s statement had upset many Albanians,” said Rasic to Pristina-based TV Klan and added that he should also resign due to everything that followed, including protests. Rasic is the only Serb MP in the Kosovo parliament, one out of ten, that is not coming from the Serbian List.

Belgrade is committed to dialogue with Priština and the implementation of the Brussels Agreement, despite many open-ended issues, such as the lack of respect of rights of Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo, said a member of the Serbian delegation in the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly Žarko Obradović.

Political consequences of the Tuesday’s violent demonstrations in Pristina are twofold. Most important shot-term consequence is an adamant request for resignation of the Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government, Aleksandar Jablanovic, because he called protestors in Đakovica, who prevented the passage of buses with displaced Serbs, savages.

The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, said in his interview to Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti that Pristina’s request for a membership in that organization has not been received in Strasbourg, and even if that would be the case, a journey to eventual membership would be a long one.