With regards to the recent information that former defender of Thaci, and first UNMIK chief Bernard Kouchner, may be a witness against  the current Kosovo President before the Special Court for KLA crimes, Hashim Thaci said in The Hague that he supports the work of the court, adding that it is an opportunity for Kosovo, not a punishment. Bernard Kouchner, head of UNMIK from July 1999 to 2001 shook his head in disagreement when previously asked about organ trafficking from the Yellow House by a VoA correspondent.

The former EU special envoy for Kosovo, Wolfgang Petritsch, who was also the chief negotiator for EU talks on Kosovo in Rambouillet and Paris in 1999, says that the image of Pristina in tear gas smoke creates the idea that there is no political stability in Kosovo.

Deputy Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Dusan Kozarev and Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Paivi Nikander discussed on Thursday about the current security situation in Kosovo, particularly when it comes to the security of Serbs and other non-Albanians in the province.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will visit Kosovo in the next 20 days, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric announced during the weekend.

Vucic will visit the Serb communities both north and south of the River Ibar and speak with Serb representatives to see "what, and how, is being done and how people live," Djuric told the RTS.

Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic says that the request of the President of the Self-Determination movement to declare the Serbian List as illegal only shows that the Serbs are always the target of bullies. Stojanovic also says that Ymeri made this statement backed by anger and not by arguments.

The meeting of the Working Group for gathering facts and evidence to shed light on crimes against Serbian people and other ethnic communities in Kosovo highlighted the importance of coordination between all services to obtain more information on numerous crimes.

During the meeting with the Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, the outgoing ambassador of Mexico in Serbia Jose Evaristo Ramon Xilotl Ramirez said that he is convinced that the Mexican government will not change its stance towards the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo. Dacic, who received Ramirez in a farewell visit, especially thanked for the principled support of Mexico for the territorial integrity of Serbia and its vital interests in Kosovo and Metohija.

The Director of Radio Belgrade Milivoje Mihajlovic told RTS that Kosovo is further from independence than it was eight years ago, when independence was unilaterally declared. According to Mihajlovic, the authorities in Pristina have spent their time diverting attention away from the economic situation by building animosity towards the Serbs, adding that at 50 percent, Kosovo has the highest unemployment rate in Europe, almost non-existent exports, with around 150,000 people having fled Kosovo.

With the meeting in Brussels between Pristina and Belgrade delegations, the issue of forming the Association/Community of Serb Municipalities (A/CSM) has returned to high level political dialogue.  Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic insisted that the statute of A/CSM should be finalized as soon as possible because it represents a means of protecting the interests of Serbs in Kosovo.

Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Marko Djuric told RTS that Serbia has done a lot towards the normalization of relations with Pristina, stressing that at today’s round of talks in Brussels, Serbia expects that obligations set by previous agreements will be met. "In the last seven or eight months we have not seen Pristina implement the agreements and our pressure will be aimed in that direction," Djuric said.