Adriatik Kelmendi writes that Kosovo government and opposition had their chance to use each other in order to draw the red line for Belgrade’s destabilizing impact in Kosovo “and to end the Jablanovic episode. However, he continues to be a Minister of Kosovo government considering for his chief the Prime Minister of Serbia, and using his opportunity to fail Kosovo.

With regard to Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic’s formulation of a new platform for Kosovo, a senior research fellow on the politics of south east Europe at the London School of Economics, James Ker-Lindsay, claims that ‘it won’t have the effect’. “If it doesn’t mean that Serbia is called to recognize Kosovo as an independent state, it will simply be ignored in Brussels. The standing point of majority EU member states is that the time has come for review of the status of Kosovo.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has assessed that many obstacles are in Serbia’s path toward the EU membership, including the issue of Kosovo, and he invited Brussels to no stipulate Serbia’s association process with severing the ties with Moscow.

The Chairperson of the Serbia’s parliament's Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun, said today that intention of hindering the normalization of relations with Kosovo lays behind the Self-Determination’s protests in Pristina.

The Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Branimir Stojanovic, said to KoSSev that yesterday’s violence on the streets of Pristina is a proof of irresponsibility of the Kosovo opposition which misuses the issue of Trepca and the Serbian Minister in the Kosovo government, Aleksandar Jablanovic, as an excuse for trying to overthrow the government. “I think that this proves the extent to which certain individuals, particularly some opposition leaders, can be irresponsible.

Tirana based opinion writer for this news portal,  Mero Baze, writes that Kosovo faced on Tuesday one of the most violent days since June 1999. Protest, called by the opposition parties, escalated with violent actions against the police, state institutions and private businesses, after a climate of depression, economic stalemate and a six-month political crisis.