Leader of Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), Milos Jovanovic said that the message from the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) Holly Archbishops Assembly message on Kosovo and Metohija should be “a guidance for a change of current Serbia’s policy towards Kosovo and Metohija,” BETA news agency reported.

Jovanovic added the SOC appealed to our statesmen to never consent to the alienation of Kosovo and Metohija, Serbian media reported.

It would be a great success if Serbia and Kosovo came to a compromise, because Kosovo is "within the reach of realizing its independence," says Ivica Dacic.

The foreign minister reiterated that Serbia will never recognize Kosovo but wants a compromise solution.

According to him, Kosovo is within reach of realizing its independence, while Serbia is surviving thanks to its traditional friends, because "the international community" thinks of the Kosovo issue as being resolved and "does not want to talk about it."

We appeal to our statesmen to never consent to the alienation of Kosovo and Metohija, since what is taken by force can be returned, while what is given away as a gift is lost forever, and Serbs and Serbia must not allow that to happen. The Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) sincerely hopes that the problem created firstly by an armed uprising of Albanian separatists, and then by the occupation of our southern province would be resolved peacefully based on justice and law principles.

The spring session of the Serbian Orthodox Church will be completed by ''an appeal for Kosovo and Metohija'', writes today's daily Blic, adding that the original text of the appeal was somewhat changed during the session, so that, apart from international actors, now it appeals domestic politicians to never give consent to the alienation of Kosovo.

The new official name of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) will be the Serbian Orthodox Church - the Patriarchate of Pec, Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti daily reports.

According to the article, the procedure for the election of the patriarch will be simplified, and the head of the Church will be elected in a secret ballot, requiring a two-thirds majority of the votes of bishops.

These are the most important changed envisaged in the proposal of the new Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church, writes the newspaper.

Serbian member of Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency, Mladen Ivanic is paying a three-day visit to the Serbian Orthodox Church Monasteries in Kosovo and Metohija, Serbian media reported.

Ivanic visited the Pec Patriarchate and Visoki Decani Monastery and spoke with the Abbess Haritina and the Abbott Sava Janjic.

Serbian Orthodox Church Bishop of Backa, Irinej said last night that the issue of Kosovo and Metohija cannot be resolved with hasty decisions and “if we without resistance agree to grabbing, it would not be the end of the process, but its continuation,” Radio Television of Vojvodina (RTV) reported.

Bishop Irinej made these remarks in an event “Week of Kosovo and Metohija” organized by Matica srpska (the oldest cultural-scientific institution of Serbia) in Novi Sad.

Abbot of the Serbian Orthodox Church Visoki Decani Monastery, Sava Janjic met with the members of the European Council for Foreign Relations delegation, headed by Carl Bildt, Kontakt plus radio reported.

As Abbot Janjic wrote on his Twitter profile, following discussion about current issues in Kosovo he showed the church to his guests.

Division of Kosovo would cause a domino effect across the Balkans with devastating consequences for all, Abbot of the Serbian Orthodox Church Visoki Decani Monastery, Sava Janjic said, Serbian media reported.

In such scenario everyone would lose, and benefits would be miserable. Serbs would vanish from Kosovo, and it would become a model for the creation of ethnically cleaned states, Abbot Janjic further said.

Reconciliation is a prerequisite for long-term solution and not otherwise, he added.

Russia expects OSCE to step up its efforts "to counter the radical nationalism among Kosovo Albanians," the ambassador added.

Kosovo Albanians are trying to impose an economic blockade of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the self-proclaimed republic of Kosovo, Russia’s OSCE envoy, Alexander Lukashevich, said on Thursday.