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With EU incapacitated and US discredited, idea on unification with Albania disturbing (B92, Der Standard)

Austrian analyst Paul Lendvai warns that what seems to be disturbing after the Kosovo election is Albin Kurti's political agenda for reunification with Albania.

The facts that the EU is incapacitated by the drama surrounding Brexit, and that the discredited US administration no longer acts as an anchor of stability in the Balkans, make the victory of Albanian nationalists in Pristina even more explosive and meaningful, Lendvai said.

Simic: Serbs will not accept violent integration of Mitrovica North (TV Pink, Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)

Serbs from Mitrovica North will not accept the violent integration with Mitrovica South, Srpska Lista Deputy Chair, Igor Simic said, commenting on an initiative to unite the town, Tanjug news agency reported. “Serbs from northern part of Mitrovica will not accept violent integration into any system, since nobody wants to replace something that is good and has quality with something that does not function,” Simic told TV Pink. He added that Mitrovica North “represents an obstacle to extremists’ advancement” since 1999 until today, and this way municipalities of Zubin Potok, Leposavic and Zvec

Kontakt plus radio: Serbs do not believe in a unification of Mitrovica North and South

Serbs in the north of Kosovo believe that the unification of Mitrovica will not take place and asses that such a thing could seriously jeopardize their survival, reports Mitrovica North based Kontakt plus radio.

Ruzica Simic from NGO Women's Right believe that the unification of Mitrovica will not happen.

Rakic: Serbs will not allow the unification of Mitrovica (Kontakt plus radio, KIM radio, TV Most)

President of Serbian List Goran Rakic issued a press release, as a response to the statement of Kosovo President Hashim Thaci about the unification of Mitrovica, who said that it was a “unstoppable process”.

Rama: We encourage the agreement, it leads to the unification of Albania and Kosovo (Blic, Vecernje Novosti, TV Klan, Zeri)

Albania is encouraging the achievement of the final agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, as it will enable the unification of Albania with Kosovo, said Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, reports Belgrade based daily Blic, quoting Pristina based Zeri.

Drecun: Albania looking to annex our territory (B92, RTS, Tanjug)

Milovan Drecun says the "erasing" of the border between Albania and Kosovo is one of the steps leading to Albania's annexation of a part of Serbia's territory.

The chairman of the Serbian National Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija added that this would place a part of the international community that supports Serbia before "a fait accompli." Drecun, a member of the ruling SNS party, told Serbia's public broadcaster RTS that Albania is doing everything to complete the violent annexation of Kosovo.

Vucic: Thaci's statement on the "dream of all Albanians" - continuous policy (RTK2)

President Aleksandar Vucic says that the statement by Hashim Thaci that the dream of all Albanians is "a national unity with Albania" is an expression of a continuing policy. He points out that he is more interested in what and will anyone in the international community react to such statements.

"Serbia has become accustomed to the policy of the Albanians, and the world is silent about it," Vucic said in response to journalists' questions at the opening of the conference "Towards Safe Serbia".

Kurti: We want normal Kosovo and normal Serbia (DW, B92)

Albin Kurti, MP of Self-Determination, talks to Deutsche Welle and says that Kosovo should have the right to vote on a referendum on unification with Albania, and why he rejects the Brussels dialogue and the Community of Serb municipalities.

Vučić: Are you threatening us again! (Sputnik)

Aleksandar Vučić, prime minister and elected president of Serbia, told Sputnik, on the occasion of yesterday's statement by the former head of the Verification Mission of the OSCE in Kosovo, William Walker that he has the project for "the unification of Albanians in Albania, Kosovo and in the Diaspora", the whole world has evidence on a silver platter about William Walker as lobbyist of the Greater Albania and that he as the head of the OSCE in Kosovo had advocated for the realization of this project.

"Turkey is behind 'Greater Albania' ideas in Balkans" (B92, Vecernje Novosti)

There is suspicion that Turkish intelligence is behind the statements about the redrawing borders in the Balkans and "the spread of the Greater Albania idea."

The Belgrade-based newspaper Vecernje Novosti is reporting this, adding that the treats against Serbia that have been arriving from Tirana, Pristina and Presevo in a synchronized manner, have been prepared in Ankara.