KoSSev news portal from North Mitrovica the winner of the journalistic award for ethics and courage “Dušan Bogavac” for 2018, announced the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (NUNS). Over the past years, despite all the challenges, obstacles and pressures, the editorial team has managed to defend the principles of brave, honest and independent journalism, reads the announcement.

The Belgrade Security Forum, an annual event discussing foreign affairs and security policy in the Balkans and Europe began yesterday. The first panel outside of the academic events was titled “Balkans 2025” and it was hosted by Hedvig Morvai, the Executive Director of the European Fund for the Balkans, Vladimir Medjak, Vice President of the European Movement in Serbia, Naim Rashiti, the Executive Director of the Balkans Policy Research Group and Robert Cooper, Council Member of the European Council for Foreign Relations.

The Gracanica Municipal Assembly, by the decision of September 12th this year, decided to hand over two cadastral zones in the size of about 100 ha to the Kosovo Polje municipality, on the proposal of the Gracanica Mayor, Srdjan Popovic, reported portal Kossev.

Almost a month later, reports portal Kossev, on October 10, the Municipal Assembly of Kosovo Polje adopted a proposal to a decision on the mutual arrangement of cadastral lines between the municipalities of Gracanica and Kosovo Polje.

The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church Irinej arrived in Kosovo this morning using the Jarinje crossing. He will be making a two-day visit to Kosovo.

The patriarch is accompanied by Patriarch of the Antioch, Jovan X, as well as members of the Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Bishop of Backa Irinej Bulovic, Metropolitan Porphyrius, and Bishop Jovan of Sumadija.

An 18-year-old ethnic Palestinian died yesterday, most likely by drowning in the Ibar River near the village of Kamenica in the Leposavic municipality, reports Kossev.

The young man was found in a vehicle which had been reported as stolen in the Zvecan municipality earlier the day.

For most Christians residing in the West, the Kosovo “question” has long been forgotten. But for Serbs and other non-majority communities who live in Kosovo, the march of the international community toward ethnic zones in an independent Kosovo presents a genuine risk to our sacred shrines and our lives.

A Serb member of the Kosovo government, Dalibor Jevtic, on Thursday attended a meeting of that government, Pristina-based Koha.net website is reporting.

Jevtic and all other members of the Kosovo government from the Serb List submitted their resignations back in March, after the arrest of Office for Kosovo and Metohija chief Marko Djuric, and have not taken part in any of its sessions since. The website states that the return of ministers from Serb List was influenced by a German delegation currently visiting Pristina.

Asked about RTK2, what is the position of the US administration regarding the adoption of the amendment by the Kosovo Internal Affairs Commission on the Draft Law on the Transformation of Kosovo Security Forces into the Army, the US Embassy in Pristina announced: