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Thaci: Serbia arming Serbs in the north (DW)

In an interview with Deutsche Welle, President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci said that Belgrade should be pressured to stop undermining Kosovo’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. “Seeing Brussels silence, Belgrade gets more encouraged to proceed with its plans to annex the northern part of Kosovo and join it to Serbia,” said Thaci adding that such a scenario will not unfold as Kosovo will use its constitutional and legal power to prevent it. “All these – the wall, the arrest, the train - are consecutive and related incidents, provoked directly by Belgrade.

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Government spokesperson: If Serbia provokes again, we will respond (Indeksonline)

According to a website of the Israeli military intelligence DEBKA File, the Russian train with slogans against Kosovo might try to enter Kosovo again. The website, notes that in this case, Kosovo will seek help, but it should not expect support from some European country, not even from Germany.

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LDK tells how to avoid Serbian provocations (Indeksonline)

 Deputy Leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Haki Rugova, said that continuous provocations from the Serbian state could be avoided only by political wisdom and cooperation between the government and opposition.  He said that support of the international friends is also required. He praised PM Mustafa for managing the situation with the train from Serbia.

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Kosovapress claims Vucic has dismissed Djuric over train’s design

Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has decided to dismiss Marko Djuric as head of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo, reports the news website quoting a source from the Serbian List. “The decision will be made public in the coming days,” said the source adding that the reason behind Vucic’s dismissal of Djuric has to do with the design of the Serbian train that was bound for Kosovo.

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Konjufca: Governments of Kosovo and Serbia are orchestrating spectacles (Gazeta Metro)

Head of the Vetëvednosje parliamentary group, Glauk Konjufca, said today at the Assembly session that government of Kosovo and Serbia are orchestrating spectacles, by stopping a train and not removing a wall. He added that situation in the north cannot improve by demolition of the wall or by stopping Serbian trains, but by dissolving of the parallel structures.

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AAK’s Lekaj wants the Mitrovica North wall to be treated the same as the Serbian train (Koha)

The head of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) parliamentary group Pal Lekaj said today at the Assembly session that the situation in the Balkans and Kosovo is not calm. Commenting on the actions of Kosovo institutions to prevent the Belgrade-Mitrovica train from reaching its destination, Lekaj said that the government should show the same determination with regards to the Mitrovica North wall instead of fighting for who will take more credit for sending the Kosovo Police units to the north.

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ROSU can act in the entire Kosovo, without KFOR's permission (Gazeta Metro)

Sources from NATO Headquarters said that the Brussels Agreement of 2013, mentioned these days by Serbia, does not include Kosovo police forces.

These sources, Serbian media report, claim that “Kosovo authorities do not have to seek KFOR’s permission to send their police forces anywhere in Kosovo.”

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Fungo: Only KFOR is authorized army in Kosovo (Koha Ditore)

KFOR Commander Giovanni Fungo, was asked in a written interview of the paper, to comment the war-inducing comments of the Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić, who threatened to send the army to Kosovo. Fungo said that the force that he commands, is the only army that can act in Kosovo. He added that this was also decided by the Kumanovo agreement, signed between NATO and Serbia in 1999. He also stressed that during the tensions of the last weekend, KFOR was in the state of alert.

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