"The police are incapable and uninterested. I call on KFOR to set up a military check point in the village of Paralovo," said Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanović after the last attack on the family Stojković from Paralovo village. "We are shocked by recent attacks that are continuously taking place for several years. We are amazed at the inability, and now we doubt even the complicity of the police in the systematic harassment of Paralovo inhabitants," said Stojanović in a statement to the media.

On 10 June 1999, then NATO Secretary General Javier Solana had issued the order for ending airstrikes of Serbian forces and the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1244 which enabled deployment of 37,200 KFOR troops from 36 countries. Solana’s decision came after the signing of the Kumanovo agreement between NATO and then Yugoslavia on 9 June 1999 which then entered into force on 11 June 1999. KFOR was split into five areas of responsibility: American, British, French, German, and Italian.

Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Ðurić said that KFOR is the only legal armed force in the territory of Kosovo. Ðurić said for the Albanian TV "Top Channel" that the establishment of Kosovo's armed forces could pose a threat to the peaceful coexistence of Serbs and Albanians, reports Zëri.

Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Ɖurić met today with Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations El-Ghassim Wane and introduced him with the process of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.  "It is necessary to restore confidence in the dialogue, and it can be reached only through implementation of the agreement on the establishment of Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (A/CSM)," said Ɖurić.

Former Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun said that the article published in New York Times talks about the influence of Saudi Arabia on the Islamists and Wahhabism, adding that funding the jihadists should be prevented. "This article presents a factual situation, but it is also the truth that the media were silent after I presented a document about the network of radical Islam that was backed up by Saudi Arabia, in 2007", says Drecun.

Chambers of Commerce of Serbia and Kosovo have strongly condemned last week's acts by supporters of radical Albanian movement ‘Self- Determination’, who overturned two Serbian trucks carrying commodities from Serbia to Kosovo. Chairpersons of both chambers will send a joint letter today to the EU institutions in Brussels and in Kosovo, requesting their active participation in finding solutions to this problem.

Vetevendosje MP Aida Derguti told a press conference in Pristina today that everyone is witnessing violations by police officers in the Kosovo Assembly and especially the attack on Vetevendosje MP Albulena Haxhiu. “Violence against members of parliament constitutes an unprecedented violation of competencies. The presence of police officers and the expulsion of MPs are illegitimate and no measure was taken against such actions. Neither the Speaker of Parliament nor the presidency is authorized to order such actions against the MPs,” Derguti said.

In 1999, Božidar Šarković from Klina expected the worst of the NATO soldiers who following the signing of the Kumanovo Agreement marched into Kosovo and Metohija. KFOR soldiers didn’t move a finger when Albanians killed Serbs and burned their houses, he said. Šarković, who returned to Metohija in 2009, still has reservations about the KFOR, but he admits that the military mission is important for the survival of Serbs in Kosovo, because it protects not only houses, but also churches and monasteries.

Reducing the number of KFOR troops in Kosovo "would adversely affect the security situation" there, Serbian Army (VS) chief Gen. Ljubisa Dikovic said at a meeting on Thursday in Belgrade with KFOR commander Gen. Guglielmo Luigi Miglietta.

Dikovic stressed that the VS sees the KFOR administration as the most important element in maintaining security and stability in Kosovo and Metohija, and that downsizing it would have negative security implications, the VS said in a release.

Influence of religion and religious leaders is huge in Kosovo said the Chairperson of the Serbian Parliament’s Committee for Coordination of Security Services, Momir Stojanoivc, to RTS. He reflected on yesterday’s arrest of Kosovo Albanians in the vicinity of Visoki Decani Monastery and said that this confirms what has being known for a long time, that Kosovo could become the center of  religious extremism in the Western Balkan region.