The founder of the Humanitarian Law Center, Natasa Kandic, called on Kosovo President Hashim Thaci to allow Serbs from Djakovica to visit the church this year.

"On this occasion, please personally engage so that the Serbs from Djakovica on August 28, 2018, visit the church and their homes and them not to be exposed to humiliation as the previous year," said Kandic in an open letter published in the Belgrade based daily Danas.

The third open letter on the same day, reports portal Kossev, this time from Belgrade to Kosovo, and one apology: "The reverend Bishop, I apologize for speaking to you publicly about a political matter," today the Director of the KiM Office, Marko Djuric talks to Bishop Teodosije through a letter sent to the Serbian media.

Two senior Serbian officials on Tuesday criticized official Belgrade for not doing enough to solve crimes committed against Kosovo Serbs.

Commission for Missing Persons chief Veljko Odalovic told the “Unpunished Crimes” gathering that the authorities in Belgrade had “taken part in events which were not good for the state”. There are no inmates convicted of war crimes in Serbian prisons, they have been freed or pardoned, he said.

This Monday marks 15 years since unknown persons opened fire from automatic weapons on a group of Serb youths in Kosovo.

They were spending a summer day on the banks of the Bistrica River, near their homes in the Serb enclave of Gorazdevac - a village in the western part of Kosovo.
19-year-old Ivan Jovovic, and 12-year-old Pantelija Dakic were killed in the attack.

Serbs in Kosovo agree with the idea of a division of Kosovo only if the arrangement would guarantee them more freedom and more rights than they had so far, said the Vice-President of Kosovo’s Serb List, Igor Simic.

He added that the Serb List, a political group of Serbs in Kosovo, trusts Belgrade’s negotiation team unequivocally.

Simic told Serbia’s public broadcaster, RTS, that Serbs in Kosovo live in suspense for decades already.

A Kosovo Serb leader told N1 that President Aleksandar Vucic’s statement that he favoured the separation with the Albanians in Kosovo, was yet another message “that spreads depression among the Kosovo Serbs.”

Momcilo Trajkovic, a member of the Serb National Forum Presidency, and former Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister, said that previous Vucic’s statements also contributed to Kosovo Serbs’ state of mind.

-During the last few decades, every warning sent at crucial moments by the Serbian Orthodox Church to the states of Yugoslavia and Serbia has proved to be true, and every time a disagreement between the church and the state occurred, the consequences were catastrophic, says Zivojin Rakocevic, novelist and journalist from Gracanica.

September could be a key month in resolving the Kosovo issue, writes the daily Blic.

The newspaper writes that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will travel to China after visiting to Kosovo, and will then go to New York, where he will speak at the United Nations.
As the solution enters the final stage, Serbia's president is in for a fierce diplomatic offensive throughout September, the daily said.

The number of Serbs interested in joining the Kosovo Police remains consistent, officials said, despite reports that Serbs have been asking to quit the Kosovo Security Force amid political tensions.

Despite reports that Serbs have been asking to leave the Kosovo Security Force amid an upsurge of political tensions between Belgrade and Pristina, the number of Serbs who want to join the Kosovo Police remains similar to 2014, the force said.

Many Serbs living in Kosovo may not benefit from the visa liberalisation with the EU that Kosovo is hoping to secure soon, rights activists are warning.

Holders of Serbian passports in Kosovo may not be able to travel to and around the EU's visa-free Schengen zone once the EU relaxes its travel regime with Kosovo, experts warn.