Outgoing Minister for Labor and Social Welfare and leader of the Progressive Democratic Party, Nenad Rasic, said that agreement is not possible amongst the leaders of Kosovo Albanian political parties  because of their standpoints. “I think that only solution is a concrete proposal which would come from the President about how government should look like, and other solution is to go to new elections. Thus we have two options, if the first one doesn’t yield results, we’ll go to new elections,” said Rasic.

The Chairperson of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Sanda Raskovic Ivic stated that last incidents in Kosovo and Metohija come as a consequence of a backing down of Serbia as a state in front of the West, that is the European Union. Raskovic Ivic told at the press conference in Kosovska Mitrovia that state has to change its policy and show that Kosovo and Metohija is part of Serbia. She called on Serbian Assembly Speaker Maja Gojkovic to call elections in four northern municipalities where provisional measures have been introduced earlier.

Civic Initiative SDP, whose leader Olvier Ivanovic has been in detention in last nine months, stated that they expect Ivanovic to be released pending trial. CI SDP said in a statement that even though case against Ivanovic and case against ‘Drenica group’ can’t be compared, they expect that court will decide to release Ivanovic pending trial, as it did in case of accused Albanians.

Two years ago on 19 October prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, Ivica Dacic and Hashim Thaci, met for the first time in Brussels and started the political dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. The Agreement signed in April 2013 has relaxed relations between Belgrade and Pristina and enabled freedom of movement across the administrative crossings, but integration of judiciary and police from the north into Kosovo institutions too, which were formed after the unilateral declaration of independence. Ten rounds of talks have taken place so far whereas one of t

Majority of Kosovo inhabitants, that is even 61 per cent of them, are of opinion that Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga should not travel to Belgrade, after she was invited to participate at the meeting organized by the European group of Trilateral Commission, shows an opinion poll carried out by the agency KosovaPress.

The Minister for Labor and Social Welfare in the Kosovo government and leader of the Progressive Democratic Party Nenad Rasic condemned incidents which took place in last couple days in Kosovo.

Reflecting on series of incidents and attacks on Serbs in Kosovo, Minister for Community and Return Dalibor Jevtic said that the work should be invested in reducing tensions in order to prevent escalation of problems. “Attacks in Orahovac, fire-setting in the premises of the Serbian Orthodox Church in northern Kosovo, throwing of Molotov cocktails on a shop owned by a Serb in village Gojbulje, threats to Serbs students in Kosovo Polje and other incidents which took place in last couple days in Kosovo are causing serious concerns.

At the department of the elementary school ‘Braca Aksic’ in Rabovce near Lipljan/Lipjan an incident took place when a Kosovo Albanian student tried to enter the building with Albanian flag. Director of the school Jugoslav Crvenkovic said that Serb students feel very disturbed after the incident. “Albanian and Serb students are attending the school in the same building. In order to avoid incidents we used to enter few minutes earlier.