A summit in Slovenia was marked by Hashim Thaci's provocation and Aleksandar Vucic's reply, while Blic is reporting what the Serbian president told Thaci.

The daily recalls that the strongly-worded discussion occurred behind the scenes, after the Kosovo president addressed the gathering and said, among other things, that Serbia is "not ready for the EU because it does not recognize Kosovo."

President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, said in an interview for Austrian daily Salzburger Nachrichten that he would like to see Brussels more engaged in the Western Balkans region but that he was not expecting any “miracles” from the meeting between the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Western Balkans leaders.

President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci told Croatian paper Nacional that the dialogue with Belgrade is not easy but that there is no alternative to it until it culminates with Serbia’s recognition of Kosovo. “I have led the war for liberation of Kosovo but I also led the dialogue for good neighbourly relations with Serbia because it was the necessary thing to do,” Thaci said adding that he was aware that Serbia plans to divide Kosovo but vowed that such a scenario will not materialize: “We all know Serbia knows how to start wars but not to how to win them”.

The paper’s editor-in-chief, Lavdim Hamiti, writes in an op-ed that only “naïve” members of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) could have believed in the sincerity of their now-former coalition partners, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). He says the PDK’s former leader, Hashim Thaci, and the present one, Kadri Veseli, have built their entire political career on not respecting agreements and the recent case with Isa Mustafa is one such case.

President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, said today in Pristina after meeting Albanian President, Bujar Nishani, that talk about unification of Kosovo and Albania through the creation of a so-called Greater Albania is a propaganda used by Belgrade. “They use Greater Albania [notion] to justify their destabilizing efforts in the Western Balkans,” Thaci said.

 The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci held an urgent meeting with the President of the Assembly of Kosovo, Kadri Veseli. Gazeta Metro reports that Thaci left immediately after his speech at the meeting with civil society representatives on the draft regulation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to meet Veseli and discuss opposition parties’ submission of the motion of no-confidence on the government.

Friends of Serbia do not behave the way SDSM leader Zoran Zaev has done, says First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

The Macedonian politician earlier on Tuesday said that Serbs and Macedonians are "brotherly people" but that "nationalist leadership of Aleksandar Vucic" is in power in Serbia.

"Serbs are the biggest and best friends to Macedonians, while the way Zaev has acted is not the way friends of Serbia behave," Dacic said.

The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, responded today to the criticism of the EU officials who consider Thaci’s statement on national unification, a threat for the EU. He said that Serbian nationalism is a threat to the EU and not his statements.

“Serbian nationalism is a threat to the EU. It is Belgrade that is working on destabilization of the region and on installing of powerful Russian impact in Serbia, starting from military bases to Russian MIGs,” Thaci said.

Analyst from Kosovo Nexhmedin Spahiu says that threats of Edi Rama and Hashim Thaçi to the EU on the unification of Albania and Kosovo are nonsense.

Spahiu said that the eventual unification of Kosovo and Albania cannot jeopardize FYROM or Montenegro, let alone Serbia, and that statements of these two officials were funny, he also said that the threat to EU on unification can only make harm to the people of Kosovo and Albania.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs late last week issued a statement reacting to "a series of recent statements by various Albanian politicians."

These statements that concern "the redrawing of borders in the Balkans" have raised particular concern, the Russian MFA said.