Analyst Cvjetin Milivojevic assessed today the request to return Kosovo issue to the United Nations would be the only appropriate reaction of Serbia to Pristina’s decision to ban entry to all Serbian officials, Danas daily reports.

“Only this way Serbia could react as a serious state. Any other way would indicate that Serbian officials have neither idea nor solution to the Kosovo issue,” Milojevic told BETA news agency.

Ambassador of Russia to Belgrade Alexander Chepurin met yesterday the head of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Zahir Tanin. Chepurin told Tanin that Russia counts that the UN will take all measures to investigate the recent attack on a Russian citizen, UNMIK's official Mikhail Krasnoshchekov, reported Belgrade based daily Blic, quoting Chepurin's post on Twitter.

Vyacheslav Volodin, the Speaker of the Russian Duma, lower house of the Federal Assembly, said in Belgrade on Monday that the “intrusion” of Kosovo’s special forces into the north aimed at frightening the Serbs, establishing control there by force, adding the Serbs could count on Russian help in future, N1 reported.

Volodin said that the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (on Kosovo after the 1989-1999 war there) should be respected.

All six Serbs detained by Kosovo police special forces on Tuesday in Zubin Potok have been were released Radio Kontakt Plus reported.

According to this, they were set free after the judge of the Basic Court in Mitrovica North, the Zubin Potok department, Ljiljana Stevanovic, refused the request of the Kosovo Prosecutor's Office to order custody. Radio Kontakt Plus said that the judge assessed that there was insufficient evidence from the prosecution to extend the detention of the Serbs, which were otherwise accused of interfering with an on duty official.

Milovan Drecun has announced the possibility of Serbia's counter-resolution, in response to Pristina's recent resolution accusing Serbia of "genocide."

Drecun (member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party), who chairs the National Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija, told Prva TV on Monday that he would discuss holding a special session dedicated to Albanian crimes in Kosovo with the Assembly's president.

The crossing point of Morina is located at the border between Serbia and Albania, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said commenting on the statement of Kosovo President Hashim Thaci that border point Morina “unjustly divides Kosovo and Albania,” RTS reported.

“Serbia within these borders is a member of the United Nations. I do not know how Thaci intends to change something the UN has recognized, without asking Belgrade for that,” Dacic told Vecernje Novosti daily.

Leader of Peoples’ Party (NS) Vuk Jeremic said Serbian opposition at no cost must fall prey to the temptation to silently support the Serbian President and leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Aleksandar Vucic in his intention to resolve the difficult Kosovo issue by an act of “grand-treason” hoping that afterwards the internationals would let him go down, Danas daily reports.

Director of the Kosovo Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) Bekim Blakaj said today he understands the motives of the Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli wanting the justice two decades after the conflict, adding he considers that the establishment of the international court is not possible, BETA news agency reports.

“The International Court should be established by the United Nations and I seriously doubt that such an initiative from Kosovo would get the support of the UN,” Blakaj told RTK2.

Serb National Fatherland Movement from Kosovo and Metohija urged today President Aleksandar Vucic and the Serbian authorities to return decision-making on the status of Kosovo “within the UN SC auspices,” and involve the Russian Federation in it “that for the last two decades in the UN safeguarded the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Republic of Serbia within the UN Resolution 1244,” KoSSev portal reported.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Sputnik portal (Serbian language) that the problem of Kosovo, instead of imposing an ultimatum, can be solved only by bringing positions closer and by consensus.

On Sputnik's question about the idea of dual sovereignty in Kosovo, reported by some media in Pristina, Lavrov replied that the West, when it recognized the illegally declared independence of Kosovo, did not mention dual sovereignty.