Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is not going to the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly next week, instead Prime Minister Ana Brnabic will go to New York, finds out Belgrade-based daily Danas from the circles close to the top state authorities.

Former Kosovo’s chief negotiator in the dialogue with Serbia, Edita Tahiri, said that Kosovo and Serbia need to address the issue of their border demarcation and compensation of war damages. In a debate organised today in Mitrovica north the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue, Tahiri said there can be no normalization of relations without Serbia recognising independence of Kosovo.

The Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director, Marko Djuric said to the Kosovo Dialogue Minister Edita Tahiri “to stop the mantra on the necessity of Serbia to recognize unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo and Metohija, as it will never happen,” TV Most reported.

Djuric further said “it is an absurd that Mrs. Tahiri, who is known as one of the most extreme and the hardest among the politicians in Pristina, stigmatize anyone as a chauvinist, and if there is a state in the region whose political discourse is not based on chauvinistic ideas, then it is Serbia.”

Head of the Association of Kosovo Montenegrins, Slobodan Vujicic, reacted to the statement of Kosovo’s outgoing Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, where she expressed suspicion on sincerity of Aleksandar Vucic’s initiative for internal debate on Kosovo.

Deputy Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Dušan Kozarev today assesses in a press release that Pristina's main negotiator Edita Tahiri has done everything in the current course of dialogue with Belgrade that conversations take place in a toxic atmosphere of insults and constant provocations instead they lead towards the reconciliation, TV Most reported.

Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, said it was paramount for Kosovo to form new institutions to address pressing internal and external issues. “Brussels dialogue is among these priorities and is important because it serves peace, neighbourhood and Kosovo’s Euro-Atlantic integrations”, Tahiri said.

Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, has sent a report to European Union authorities on the process of implementation of agreements reached in the framework of normalization of relations dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia.

Kosovo Assembly should decide on the format of the dialogue in Brussels, recently continued at the presidential level, RTS reported referring to Pristina-based media reports that Hashim Thaci, with unilateral decision to meet Aleskandar Vucic breached Constitution.

After the new government is formed, Kosovo Assembly should call for a session and decide about the future of a dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade, more respectively to appoint legitimate Kosovo representatives in Brussels.

The government of Kosovo has allocated €31,000 aimed at integration of the members of the “Civil Protection” into Kosovo institutions. Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, said the move finalizes the integration of the structure operating in the north of Kosovo considered illegal by the government in Pristina.

Kosovo Minister for Dialogue Edita Tahiri says that Belgrade-Pristina negotiations in Brussels could continue "only when Ramush Haradinaj returns to Kosovo."

The ethnic Albanian politician and a former KLA leader, wanted in Serbia on war crimes charges, is currently in France, unable to leave that country pending a decision on Serbia's extradition request.