Deputy Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Dusan Kozarev was not allowed on Thursday to enter Kosovo at Merdare crossing.

The Office for KiM said in the press release that ''this is another illegal and anti-democratic ban that was applied to representatives of our Office in one day”.

According to the statement, Kozarev was supposed to go to Prizren, where he was supposed to open an event dedicated to poetry “Lazar Vuckovic”, organized by Jedinstvo newspaper and its publisher.

Serbian List Vice-President Igor Simic said today that pressures coming from different sides ahead of parliamentary elections in Kosovo cannot break the Serbian unity and that this would be visible in the October 6 elections.

Thus, reacting to a decision of Pristina institutions to ban the arrival of Serbian officials in Kosovo on the eve of the October 6 election, Simic said it would prove that pressure and violence ''could not be fruitful'' since the increased pressures would result in even bigger unity of Serbs.

Serbian List Vice President Igor Simic told Zvecan based TV Most that the CEC decision on vote in the upcoming election only with documents issued in Kosovo does not give Serbs the opportunity to elect their legitimate representatives.

Simic said that "it will definitely affect the number of Serbs who will be able to exercise their right to vote after the unlawful decision of the CEC, but also the unlawful decision of the Court in Pristina."

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric told TV Pink on Sunday that October 6th elections are essential important for Serbs and important for preserving ‘’Serbia’s influence in the province’’ and called all the Serbs to use their voice and be united.

Holding of the RTS crew at Jarinje administrative crossing is another in a series of indicators of the problems which Serbs in Kosovo are faced with, said Aleksandar Spiric, President of Mitrovica Interim Municipal Council, reported Zvecan based TV Most.

On Thursday, Spiric told Radio Belgrade 1, inter alia, that “persistence always wins” and that RTS has now witnessed that the everyday life of the local people is full of difficulties and problems.

Minister of Education in the Government of Serbia, Mladen Sarcevic, was kept for an hour and a half during the crossing of the administrative line Jarinje, when entering Kosovo, where he visited University of Pristina, relocated to Mitrovica North.

According to Sarcevic, although they have duly announced the delegation and received a notice that everything is fine, they were kept at Jarinje crossing for an hour and a half.

Since Tuesday, 18 June, when a landfill between Zvecan and Zitkovac began to burn, reports TV most.

Residents of Zvecan and surroundings, and Mitrovica feel the smell of smoke, lampblack and soot, which does not stop due to the huge surface burning, and after heavy rainfall, smoke spreads especially with the wind.

Mayors of the Serb-majority areas in the south of Kosovo congratulated their colleagues from four northern Kosovo municipalities on a convincing election victory, it was said in the statement.

The latest survey of the Belgrade based agency Faktor Plus, in cooperation with daily Blic, shows that the citizens of Serbia are not optimistic about the solution of the Kosovo problem, they do not expect Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to sign the recognition of Kosovo, and most of them think that the problem will not be resolved soon

Radio Mitrovica Sever reports that members of the Kosovo Police Intervention Unit injured ten Serbs from Strpce, who tried to prevent the passage of the excavator to the both rivers in Strpce where the construction of a mini hydroelectric power plant began.

The radio learns that Kosovo Police used pepper spray and batons while unblocking the road. The injured were given first aid in the Health Center in Strpce.