The EU has published its common position on chapter 35 relating to Kosovo, which was opened late on Monday.

The text stresses that "this first set of interim benchmarks will be updated" and that "if progress in the normalization of relations with Kosovo significantly lags behind progress in the negotiations overall" the opening of other chapters could be frozen.

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric says that the fact that Serbia will open first Chapter 35, about Kosovo, does not mean that the EU accession process and the dialogue with Pristina should be mixed.

Djuric told B92 that the false belief that the talks with Pristina are important for Belgrade just because of EU accession, stating that they are important because of internal stability and the status of citizens in Kosovo.

Aleksandar Vucic said at the opening of the OSCE Ministerial Council that the Balkans remains "a powder keg that needs only a spark to explode again."

"I must express my concern for the stability in the Balkans. Serbia is a stable country, but several crisis situation in the region are enough - in Macedonia, Montenegro, Pristina - for the whole region be set on fire again," said Prime Minister of Serbia on Thursday.

All principles of the international community were violated precisely in the example of Serbia, Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday.

In addition, Serbia's Foreign Minister and first deputy PM, who also serves as OSCE chairperson, said that the international order should be based on principles and not only on political interests.

Ahead of a final decision of the Constitutional Court in Pristina, Belgrade is saying it has no intention of giving up on what was signed in Brussels.

Representatives of Serbs in Kosovo are announcing they could leave the government if the Community/Association of Serbian Municipalities (ZSO) is not formed.

Although Serbia has no alternative to dialogue, the possibility of breaking off the Kosovo talks is not being ruled out.

Aleksandar Vucic has told Sputnik that the issue of Pristina's UNESCO membership will not be brought up during the Kosovo talks in Brussels.

The Serbian prime minister stressed that the Serbian delegation previously offered to discuss this issue there, but that this was "rejected, because Pristina's representatives were convinced they'd join UNESCO."
The organization's General Conference earlier in the week rejected the application.

After the rejection of Kosovo's admission to UNESCO, Abbot of Visoki Decani Sava Janjic said that it is not the time for emotions, but for a dialogue establishment. As he said, now is the time for serious work on a possible dialogue adding that those people who refuse dialogue don’t have good intentions. "If you ask me who won I will give you a clear answer - the chance for a fair dialogue and confidence-building won, not political pressure," said Janjic on Twitter.

Kosovo's bid to join UNESCO has "definitively" been included in the agenda for Monday of the General Conference, says Darko Tanaskovic.

However, the Serbian ambassador to UNESCO added there was "still a chance the debate on this item will be postponed for two years."

Should the vote take place, Tanaskovic "stressed that the outcome remains uncertain," and reiterated that "Serbia will propose that the debate on the admission of Kosovo be postponed for 2017," the Beta agency reported on Friday.

Pristina on Monday changed the Stabilization and Association Agreement it signed with the EU. 

Pristina has signed the SAA agreement as Kosovo* - but the yesterday session of the Assembly, that ratified the agreement, also passed an amendment that replaced the asterisk - which in official documents points to a footnote referring to Kosovo's status - with the term "the Republic of Kosovo."

Serbian authorities' campaign against the membership of Kosovo in UNESCO has continued with the launching of a website.

After posting several short films on the internet about the crimes in Kosovo, the website nokosovounesco.com has now gone online, documenting messages of hatred directed at Serbs, destroyed churches, graveyards, burned down cars.

President Tomislav Nikolic asked Serbians on Monday to spread the truth about Kosovo online by sharing the material on social networks.