Radio KiM reports that the remains of the Orthodox Church of St Nicholas in Novo Brdo is being converted by Pristina authorities into a three-necked basilica, which is a great forgery, warned Marko Popovic, co-author of the monograph dedicated to the church.

Popovic claims that a part of the conservation works has already been done, and on the board in front of the site, a reconstruction project has been shown that has nothing to do with the actual situation, reported KIM radio.

The Orthodox church of St Nicholas in a village Grncare, in the municipality of Vitina, has been robbed and vandalized, announced the Serbian List on Monday.

The List said that the interior of the church had been desecrated and called for the perpetrators to be found quickly “in order to send a clear message that this type of behaviour and endangering of the peace is unacceptable,” reported Serbian media.

Bujar Dugolli, dean of Philological Faculty of University of Pristina, said they consider the decision of the Appeals Court to uphold a previous ruling giving the Orthodox Church ownership over a plot of land within the university campus to be “shameful” and “unjust”. Dugolli said the UP’s opposition to the court ruling is not an attempt at interfering in the work of the judiciary or at undermining the right to religion to any community in Kosovo.

A group of University of Pristina students gathered today in the university campus, namely in front of the unfinished Orthodox Church building, and tried to put of pictures of massacres Serb forces committed against the Albanian population. However, the Kosovo Police reacted by preventing the students from putting up the pictures. Students said their action was initiated following provocations from Serbia and as a sign of protest against the priests who held a mass at this church seen as a relic of Slobodan Milosevic’s regime in Kosovo.

Minister in the Kosovo Government for Return and Communities, Dalibor Jevtić said the Saturday's events in Pristina were a result of "everything that lately we have in Kosovo - the street has become a place where decisions are made instead the institutions to strengthen."

Around 30 Albanian students of the University of Pristina gathered in front of the Church of Christ the Saviour in downtown Pristina and protested over the cleaning and restoring of the function of the Serbian church.

Forensic teams carrying out investigations into a possible mass grave site near the building of the Orthodox Church inside the Pristina university campus found no human remains on the site, announced the chairman of the Kosovo government commission for missing persons, Prenk Gjetaj. He said however that the forensic teams have now shifted the excavations into another adjacent site.

President Tomislav Nikolic and Patriarch Irinej discussed at the Patriarchy the possibility to propose Vatican model for the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) in Kosovo. They met in the midst of preparing for the resumption of dialogue with Pristina, since Serbian negotiating team announced intention of the government to nominate the issue of the status of the SPC and its assets in Kosovo, within the new round of talks.

In an interview given to daily Novosti, former minister in French government and candidate for the president of the Paris region, Valerie Pecresse said: “We will accept representatives of the Serbian religious community, so they could inform us about their experiences related to the dramatic situation in Kosovo. We must find the way to protect the exceptional Serbian orthodox heritage. We have responsibility to help the communities that are endangered. That should be the universal role of France in the world.

Political leadership in Pristina considers that it has lost just one battle but not the war, and in two years Kosovo will, better prepared and with a stronger international lobbying, again apply for membership in the United Nations agency that deals with the protection of cultural heritage in the world.

Blerim Shala, the Coordinator of the Pristina team for the Brussels negotiations with Belgrade and independent MP in the Kosovo Assembly said in an interview for Danas that negotiations were very difficult process and that there were a lot of problems with the inherited mentality and the transitions in both countries.

You are negotiator with the continuity of Rambouillet to Brussels. Is there a common thread for all previous negotiations?