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Jevtic: Violence against Serb returnees (RTS)

On the occasion of another incident that took place on Saturday evening, when in a household of Snezana Dubljevic was set on fire hay, straw, barn and pigsty in the village of Suvi Lukavac, the deputy prime minister of Kosovo and the minister for communities and returns, Dalibor Jevtic, assessed that it was about, as he said, "organized violence against Serb returnees in the municipality of Istok", reports RTS.

Vulin: Threats from Pristina will endanger peace in the region (RTS)

Serbian Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin says that open threats with war and conflicts coming from Pristina's government officials will endanger peace in the entire region, responding to Daut Haradinaj's statement that the first arrest for the Special Court will again activate the former KLA, RTS reports.

Vucic: I believe, a more serious debate on Kosovo on spring (RTK2, Tanjug, RTS)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic believes that in early spring, and in the context of internal dialogue on Kosovo, would be able to start a more serious debate, reports RTK 2 quoting Belgrade based agency Tanjug.

Vucic in Lebane, responding to journalists' questions, points out that the issue of Kosovo is very important and that it is important that people speak the truth in the internal dialogue.

Trendafilova: We will not allow pressures and intimidation (Tanjug, RTS, TV Most)

The President of the Specialized Chambers of Kosovo Ekaterina Trendafilova says that the court will provide an impartial and fair trial to the accused, but also that it will prosecute those who try to in any way threaten the safety of victims and witnesses or exert any kind of pressure on judges, report Serbian media.

"Russia sanctions, Kosovo recognition would make us champs" (B92, RTS)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is in Paris this Tuesday for the climate change summit.

Speaking for RTS, he commented on Monday's opening of two new two chapters in Serbia's EU membership negotiations.

Vucic sees participation in the summit as an opportunity to meet with the French president who is at the moment one of the two most important political figures in Europe and is influential in the world.

KFOR Commander: The situation in Kosovo is stable, but fragile (RTS, Kronen Zeitung)

KFOR Commander General Salvatore Couci told the Vienna daily Kronen Zeitung that situation currently is "very safe".

"It depends much on whether people want change here. Primarily youth does it," Couci says.

To the conclusion that there are many fighters from the Balkans in the Islamic state and a questions of the daily what KFOR can do on this issue, the Italian general says that it is true that Kosovo has a large number of "foreign fighters", i.e. returnees from the war in Syria.

Dodik: If Serbia accepted the separation of Kosovo and we would be separated (DW, RTS, Blic, N1, Dnevnik, TV Most)

Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said that the policy of preserving territorial integrity, represented by Serbia, is an obstacle to the separation of Republika Srpska.

"If Serbia, in that moment, has said that it was OK, when Kosovo seceded, we would have been already separated," Dodik said in an interview with Deutsche Welle.

If Belgrade decides to recognize Kosovo's independence, Dodik says, he would not object, but it would mean that the Republika Srpska could be independent.

Office for Kosovo and Metohija: Urgently to find out who attacked Staletovic (RTS)

The Office for Kosovo and Metohija asked the competent authorities in Kosovo to urgently determine who committed the attack on Bojan Staletovic in the multi-ethnic settlement of the Bosniak Mahalla in the northern part of Mitrovica, RTS reports.

"We warn that incidents of this kind, besides the Serbs' unrest in Kosovska Mitrovica, can cause an uncontrolled escalation of interethnic violence, which is not in the interest of Serbian and Albanian residents of this city," the statement reads, RTS reports.

Elections in two municipalities with Serbian majority on Sunday (RTS)

In Kosovo, a second round of elections for the presidents of 19 municipalities will be held in Kosovo on Sunday. Elections will be held in two municipalities with Serb majority: Klokot, and in Partes and Pasjane.

The second round will be held in Klokot, because president of the municipality was not elected in the first round of elections, and in Partes and Pasjane, the election for the president will be repeated after the Appeals Panel has decided to accept the objections of one of the two candidates.

Drecun: Last chance for crimes in Kosovo (KIM Radio, RTS)

The chairman of the Committee on Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that the establishment of the list of defense attorneys and the injured for the Specialized Council in Pristina will be completed for the next two to three months and the first indictments of the Special Prosecutor's Office should be expected afterwards.