Pristina should stop provoking the Serb people and Serbia, as Albanians in Kosovo are no longer in a position to threaten anyone, says Ivica Dacic.
The Serbian foreign minister and first deputy PM told RTS on Wednesday that yesterday's arrest of five Serbs in Kosovo was a hostile act that does not contribute creating a positive atmosphere for dialogue.
Members of the special forces of the Kosovo police, armed with long pipes, arrested and then released five Serbs.
The police this morning infiltrated the premises of the Cultural and Educational Center "Bozidar Mitrovic Sandor" in Silovo near Gnjilane and searched several houses in that town.
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, at an extraordinary press conference, said that the Kosovo police arrested the head of the Kosovo-Pomoravlje District Radovan Stojkovic, the director of the branch office of the National Employment Service Jovan Denic, and Nenad Stojanovic, a member of the Serbian Army living in Kosovo, in the municipality of Gnjilane and working in Vranje.
Serbian media this morning reports about the action of the special units of the Kosovo police in the Gnjilane region.
Media reports that Kosovo police raided the premises of the Cultural and Educational Center "Bozidar Mitrovic Sandor" in Silovo near Gnjilane. Radio television of Serbia (RTS) reports that three Serbs were detained in action.
The proposal of the Statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) should be presented on the 4th of August in Brussels. That deadline was given to Pristina when the Serbs, five years after the signing of the Brussels Agreement, announced that they would form the Community themselves, reports Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reiterated on Thursday that "Serbia leads an independent policy, and citizens are the ones who decide."
Vucic added that in terms of Kosovo, "we need to have a realistic, rational and responsible approach, look to the future, and succeeding in making the most of what we can do."
Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s President, congratulated the Independence Day to his US counterpart Donald Trump and invited him to visit Belgrade, Vucic office’s statement said on Wednesday.
Vucic wished the US further progress and welfare to all its citizens.
US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott told Radio Television Serbia (RTS) that the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina should enter a more intensive phase and expresses the hope that the compromise will be reached "perhaps even this year".
Scott told RTS that neither Belgrade nor Pristina will get everything they want, but that it is important that both sides come to a compromise.
The Kosovo and Metohija Office announced that the Minister of Defense, Aleksandar Vulin, was banned from visiting Kosovo, reports Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).
The Office for KiM strongly condemned "the scandalous decision of Pristina and mediators in the Brussels dialogue'', reports RTS.
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj confirmed that the transcript of the meeting of Kosovo Minister Ivan Todosijevic with the representatives of the Working Group for the drafting of the Statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) was returned to the Ministry of Administration and Local Self-Government of Kosovo because the document sent to the government was written in Cyrillic.