Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Srpska Lista (SL) should take part in the upcoming elections in Kosovo on October 6^th, although they will have “powerful opponents in both the Albanian and part of the Serbian media“, KoSSev portal reports.

Vucic added that he is currently waiting to “receive a report from the Office for Kosovo and Metohija and then to hear what Srpska Lista has to say“. Nevertheless, the President Vucic believes that Srpska Lista should participate in this election.

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric said on Thursday Srpska Lista would make all decisions related to Kosovo elections in the consultations with the President Aleksandar Vucic and urged Serbs to be ready to take part and be united, BETA news agency reports.

He added that Srpska Lista was Serbia's “immensely important instrument” in exercising national interests in Kosovo.

Chairman of the Serbian National Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun said Albanians are not ready to take part in the process of finding out who were the perpetrators of the most serious crimes, Tanjug news agency reported.

According to Drecun their aim is to make the investigations difficult, conceal the evidence and prevent finding of the truth.

President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic had a meeting with the Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament, David McAllister, Tanjug news agency reports.  This is the first McAllister’s visit to Belgrade after taking up a new duty.

On his Instagram account, the President posted that Serbia agrees with the EU member states’ agreement on the holders of the most important functions.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharachenko and said he does not expect a swift continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, N1 reports. On the other hand, Ambassador Botsan-Kharachenko said Russia is ready to contribute to the resolution of the Kosovo issue within the international law.

"The Serbs left, but they hadn't vanished", President Aleksandar Vucic said last night while marking 24^th  anniversary since the operation "Storm" in Croatia, Serbian media report.

"The Serbs have left and it caused tremendous grief and sorrow in the heart of every single Serb. Is Croatia today happier, more successful or wealthier because of it? I have to disappoint you, all of you who glorify and rejoice in the tears of Serbia - the Serbs are not gone. Serbia hadn't vanished", Vucic said from Krusedol.

“I would try to win over “shoulder by shoulder” with Serbia to return the international law to the region, once and for all, primarily when it comes to the Kosovo issue,” Russian Ambassador to Serbia, Alexander Botsan-Kharachenko told Tanjug news agency.

He added Russia would support “a compromise and creative” solution, the one that Belgrade and Pristina must agree upon and which Russia could defend at the UN Security Council.

Commenting on return of Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj from The Hague, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Prva TV he has already said Haradinaj would spend 24 or 48 hours there and then come back.

“I have already said he would spent 24 or 48 hours there. Enough to check what hotels there are like. He waited to come during the night so the image would be more impressive, like a hero,” Vucic said.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met today with the Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej in Belgrade today, Tanjug news agency reported.

Vucic said that the situation in Kosovo and Metohija gets more complicated every time they meet, adding Serbia was left nothing but to fight. He thanked the Patriarch Irinej because the Church has always been by its people and the state.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic commented today on the news that Ramush Haradinaj was interviewed in the Special Court for KLA crimes in The Hague saying that no one has brought the justice to the Serbs and he expects it won’t happen in the future either, RTS reports.  

He underlined that double standards are at play and no one can answer the question – where are the rights and the justice? He also said Serbian tear has no parents nor would it have, and that Serbia must fight for the better future, but in a manner not to jeopardize it.