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Serbian government in October with representatives of Kosovo Serbs (RTK2, TV Prva, Tanjug)

The Serbian government will hold a thematic session with representatives of the Serbs in Kosovo in October, where an investment plan for all ten municipalities with a Serb majority will be adopted, announced today the director of the Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric.

Djuric told TV Prva that the construction of new kindergartens and roads was already initiated, and that this is actually a struggle for survival of the people in Kosovo.

Simic: The solution must include the legitimate interests of Serbia and the Serbs (Danas, RTK2)

''What the international factor considers as a solution to the Kosovo issue, in the eyes of Serbia and the Serbs means a recognition of Kosovo, and those are not our legitimate interests,'' says Vice President of the Serbian List Igor Simic, adding that this should change, reports RTK2.

Representatives of the international community are increasingly louder in stating that Serbs and Albanians should agree on Kosovo. For Simic this is a positive thing that should include the Serbian national interests.

Meta: An agreement without changing borders (Danas)

In an interview for the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, Albanian President Ilir Meta said that Kosovo and Serbia should reach an agreement without changing the borders.

Asked whether he fears the region's destabilization due to tensions between Kosovo and Serbia lately, the Albanian president said that good relations between Belgrade and Pristina are needed for peace, not only in the region, but also wider.

The session of the UN Security Council in September without the report on Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti, NMagazin, RTK2)

The United States, which will take over the presidency of the Security Council, will not include in the agenda in September a report by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the situation in Kosovo, writes Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti.

Guterres's regular report refers to the period from April 16 to July 15, 2018, and it was due to be debated in August, but the UK "took it off the table", the daily reported.

IDPs cancelled their visit to Djakovica (RTK2, Kontakt plus radio, Vesti, Kossev)

Earlier announced visit of internally displaced persons from Djakovica to the Monastery of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God, on the eve of the monastery celebration on August 28, was cancelled due to security reasons, the president of Djakovica citizens Association, Djokica Stanojevic confirmed to RTK2.

Stanojevic stresses that the arrival of around 2,000 displaced persons from Djakovica to their hometown was prevented by an atmosphere of hatred, which, as he said, have prevailed in the past days.

Simic: "Teodosije does not express his opinion, but attacks Vucic" (RTK2, TV Prva, Beta)

Igor Simic, the vice president of the Serbian list, estimated that the bishop of Raska-Prizren Teodosije did not merely expressed his opinion, but that it was the attack on Vucic and the Serbian List, reports RTK2, quoting Belgrade based TV Prva.

"It is not an expression of opinion, but a classic attack on President Vucic and the Serbian List, belittling of everything we did, forgetting all the good that was done by Vucic and the Serbian government for the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo," Simic told TV Prva.