The stabbing of a young boy in Mitrovica North is beyond doubts an inter-ethnic incident and those responsible for this cowardly attack should be urgently brought before the justice, Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djurc said, BETA news agency reports.

This is yet another in a series of attacks against Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, aiming to intimidate them, and we are also convinced it is about politically inspired event, Office for Kosovo and Metohija said in a statement.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Srpska Lista (SL) should take part in the upcoming elections in Kosovo on October 6^th, although they will have “powerful opponents in both the Albanian and part of the Serbian media“, KoSSev portal reports.

Vucic added that he is currently waiting to “receive a report from the Office for Kosovo and Metohija and then to hear what Srpska Lista has to say“. Nevertheless, the President Vucic believes that Srpska Lista should participate in this election.

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric said on Thursday Srpska Lista would make all decisions related to Kosovo elections in the consultations with the President Aleksandar Vucic and urged Serbs to be ready to take part and be united, BETA news agency reports.

He added that Srpska Lista was Serbia's “immensely important instrument” in exercising national interests in Kosovo.

Belgrade is finding the ways to supply the Serbs in the north of Kosovo despite pressures and increased police controls, Head of the Government’s Kosovo and Metohija Office Marko Djuric told Serbian media.

Speaking for the Politika daily, Djuric said it was so important that the Serbs showed solidarity and readiness to fight for their fundamental human rights in a peaceful way. “Without that, our efforts would be in vain,” he added.

Serbian Ministry of Culture condemned placing of Kosovo flag on the medieval Serbian fortress in Novo Brdo, Tanjug news agency reported.

The Ministry noted that Pristina institutions “in the absence of their own cultural heritage reach out to seizing others”. Referring to Kosovo flag the Ministry said that “that colorful fabric with unclear symbolic meaning could serve to nothing else but wiping off the dust from the pearl of the Serbian medieval spirituality and European as well as world cultural heritage.”

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric told RTS today Serbs should “monolithic and united” take part in the Kosovo elections, Danas daily reports. Djuric added he is convinced it would be shown, based on the results of Srpska Lista, how much Serbs are attached to their state and how much they want unity and concord with Belgrade.

Djuric also underlined “that the Serbs may have thousand and one political differences in other parts of the country, but in Kosovo we must be monolithic, united and harmonious in the performance towards Albanians”.

In an extraordinary press conference today, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said that the Quint countries made clear today the outcome of the dialogue, but that Serbia would nonetheless continue to pursue its internal policies on Kosovo and other issues driven by its own interests.

Djuric agreed with part of the statement regarding the call for the dialogue to resume but added that it should happen after taxes are abolished.

Pristina authorities are constantly finding out new ways to impede the freedom of ordinary people of all ethnicities, Serbs in particular, and they do not hide their intolerance towards them, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said.

Chairperson of the Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun said “that Serbian citizens should not travel to the southern province with passports but with the ID cards only”, RTS reports.

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric said this morning in the RTS morning news that it was necessary for Pristina to abolish taxes in order for dialogue to resume and any kind of normalization of relations to start.

Djuric said that when it comes to the change of government in Pristina, Serbs have nothing to look forward to.

Commenting on return of Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj from The Hague, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Prva TV he has already said Haradinaj would spend 24 or 48 hours there and then come back.

“I have already said he would spent 24 or 48 hours there. Enough to check what hotels there are like. He waited to come during the night so the image would be more impressive, like a hero,” Vucic said.