Ministry for Communities and Returns together with Strpce Municipality did not manage to reach a compromise with the KEDS company to reconnect the electricity supply to collective centres in Brezovica, Serbian media reported.

The Ministry said in a press release that efforts to resolve the issue did not yield results, and it was said during the meeting with KEDS representatives that electricity will not be connected until tenants in collective centres pay debts from 2015 and onwards.

US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott estimates the incident in Petric further highlights the need to work on an agreement on a comprehensive normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, which, as he believes, must be ensured the security of Serbs in Kosovo.

The blockade of roads and the prevention of displaced persons to visit to at least a day the Church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Petric near Kline is a shameful act that brings nothing good to anyone living in Kosovo, said Dalibor Jevtić.

Serbian national broadcaster, RTS continues its serial focusing on usurped properties in Kosovo, featuring some of the cases.

Usurpation and fraudulent sales of displaced Serbs’ properties have been taking place for years in Kosovo and Metohija, thus denying the Serb population right to private property and return. There are more than 5000 cases related to Serb and other non-Albanian properties, while Free Legal Aid is presenting those affected before the local institutions.

The Ministry for Communities and Returns presented a final paper aiming to profile displaced persons. During the presentation it was noted there is a need for a better regional coordination among responsible institutions, KIM Radio reported.

The paper provides information on the needs of displaced persons such as access to health care, protection, incomes.

Investigative bodies would soon present concrete results in Ivanovic murder probe, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci said in a press conference, Belgrade-based daily Politika reported.

He added he monitors the work of bodies working to shed the light on who were the order givers and killers, and he spoke about this recently with the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, RTK 2 reported.

The property and a house of the Petrovic family located at the entry of the village Musnikovo, near Prizren, is jeopardized with unauthorized reconstruction works, Radio Kontakt Plus reported.

A road has been built just above the house and an annex object, which resulted in a huge amount of soil and rocks falling down to the premises existing on the property.

Family Petrovci left Kosovo in 1999 and currently lives in Kragujevac city (central Serbia).