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Paunovic called on the UN to determine the human rights situation in Kosovo (Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)

Belgrade based Tanjug news agency reports that Serbia from 2013 until now requested from the eight contracting bodies of United Nations that UNMIK reports on the application of the standards of valid conventions on the territory of Kosovo.
Director of the Office for Human and Minority Rights Suzana Paunovic said yesterday and called on the UN Human Rights Council to inspect the human rights situation in that part of territory, reports the agency.

Army of Serbia to KFOR: If the security of Serbs in Kosovo is threatened, we will not be silent observers (Vecernje Novosti)

Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti today writes that it is no novelty that there is a strong will in Belgrade to protect its people in the event of escalation of violence in Kosovo, adding that the military top of Serbia regularly informed all previous KFOR commanders of their determination to ensure the security of their citizens.

Brammertz unsatisfied over Gotovina, Haradinaj and Perisic (Serbian media)

Hague tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz says in the interview for Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti that he does not think that the Hague Tribunal directly leads to the reconciliation of the people in the former Yugoslavia, but that the determination of responsibility is a prerequisite for reconciliation.

4 points of agreement between Vucic and Putin (Vecernje Novosti)

Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti writes that, according to their knowledge, the most important points of future relations between Serbia and Russia have been clarified.

The daily quote the following points:

* Russia will firmly represent Belgrade's positions regarding the final status of Kosovo

* Moscow, as a manufacturer, has generally agreed that Serbia can negotiate with the Belarusians about the purchase of the S-300 PVO system

Vecernje Novosti: Serbia to "wipe the name Macedonia"?

Serbia is preparing measures in case Skopje supports Pristina in international institutions, writes today Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti, as well as that there is the possibility of changing the decision on recognizing the name of the neighbouring state if its Prime Minister Zoran Zaev fulfils "threats" on voting for Kosovo's membership in UNESCO.

Belgrade checks Kosovo's recognition list (Vecernje Novosti)

According to the daily newspaper Vecernje Novosti, Belgrade in the coming months will determine through "a comprehensive diplomatic action" how many precisely states have recognised the independence of Kosovo.

As the daily writes, there are doubts that the list of recognitions presented by the authorities in Pristina is not credible, because of which Belgrade decided to check the situation 'on the ground'.

Without the ZSO there is no dialogue (Vecernje Novosti)

The European Union insists on the implementation of the agreed from the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, and above all on the establishment of the ZSO, says Aleksandra Joksimovic Director of the Center for Foreign Policy, reports daily Vecernje Novosti.

She points out that Pristina is avoiding this, and that the EU is aware that without the formation of the ZSO there is no continuation of the dialogue.

They push defeated ones in the municipality of Partes (Vecernje Novosti)

Daily based in Belgrade Vecernje Novosti today writes, in a article entitled "The Pristina Plan: They push defeated ones at the helm of Partes," that if the Constitutional Court of Kosovo is guided by political rather than legal arguments and it supports the Appeal Panel's request for the repetition of the vote in the municipality of Partes, it is possible that the protest will be radicalized.

Measles epidemic in Kosovo; new case in central Serbia (B92, Vecernje Novosti)

A patient from Kosovska Mitrovica in northern Kosovo, who was visiting Kragujevac, central Serbia, has developed the symptoms of measles, it has been confirmed.

The daily Vecernje Novosti writes that this is the second case of the spread of the disease from Kosovo and Metohija, since an epidemic of measles was reported there.