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Thaci: Serbia has committed genocide in Kosovo; Djuric's case a provocation of the Serbian authorities (Blic)

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci says in an interview with the Vienna daily Presse that the ''case'' of Marko Djuric was unnecessary and that something like this should not be repeated, and that he agreed with the President of Serbia about necessity of the agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, reports Belgrade based daily Blic.

- Djuric's case was unnecessary. It was the provocation of the Serbian authorities - claims Thaci.

Belgrade officially starts study on consequences of NATO bombardment of Serbia (TV N1, KoSSev)

A study on the consequences of the NATO bombardment of Serbia in 1999 has officially started, Serbian media reported.

An agreement between the four ministries: health, environmental protection, defence, and education and science, was signed and 15 million RSD have been allocated.

The study should prove whether the increase in percentage of patients suffering from malignant and autoimmune diseases is a direct consequence of the bombardment of Serbia in which depleted uranium ammunition was used.

Jeremic: Vucic plans to cause unrests in north of Kosovo (Danas)

Leader of Peoples’ Party Vuk Jeremic said the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic plans to cause unrests in the north of Kosovo in the next couple of months in order to present an agreement with Pristina, which includes membership of Kosovo in the UN, as an alleviation.

“We have seen this recipe before, pull up the strings, set a fire, then distinguish it and present it as God’s given solution. This is how Vucic intends to reach “historic agreement,” Jeremic said during the founding ceremony of Peoples’ Party Municipal Board in Vozdovac (Belgrade) municipality.

Vucic and Poroshenko about Serbia's sovereignty in Kosovo (RTS)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic arrived in Eskişehir (Turkey) where he met with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko immediately after his arrival with whom he discussed bilateral relations and economic cooperation, reports radio Television of Serbia (RTS).

Vucic and Poroshenko discussed bilateral relations and economic cooperation, and the Ukrainian president said that his country respects the territorial integrity of Serbia and has asked Vucic to appeal politicians in Serbia not to conduct an anti-Ukrainian campaign.

UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations met Serbian officials (Serbian media)

The UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Bintou Keita had separate meetings on Monday with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

Serbian officials told her that Serbia is committed to finding a compromise solution for Kosovo and warned of increasingly frequent incidents.

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President comments possible international conference (Tanjug, B92)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has stressed that it was "not important where an international conference on finding a solution for Kosovo would be held."

What matters instead is "the content of the proposal," the Serbian president said on Sunday, after reports emerged about the possibility of organizing a "Rambouillet 2" - the name being a reference to the Rambouillet, France conference that preceded NATO's bombing of Serbia in 1999.

"My singing has helped," Dacic tells his critics (Kurir, Tanjug, B92)

Foreign Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic says Kosovo looks like the task of Sisyphus - "but we can never give up."

"It's not a phrase, that's the essence," Dacic wrote in an op-ed penned for the tabloid Kurir.

"All of us who are in power, but also those who are now the opposition, have the responsibility - however Tadic, and Djilas, and Jeremic all seem to have forgotten the meaning of the word," he said.

Survey: 63 percent of Serbs support frozen conflict in Kosovo, 9 percent for agreement at any cost (Tanjug, RTV)

Significantly more than half of Serbian citizens, 63 percent precisely, think that the frozen conflict in Kosovo is the best solution at the moment. Every second citizen believes the Kosovo status would not be resolved in the next 5 to 10 years.

These are the results of „Factor Plus “Agency survey carried out this month. Concrete agreement in which both Serbs and Albanians would lose and gain something is supported by 21 percent of responders, while 9 percent support agreement between Belgrade and Pristina at any cost.

"You think Albanians won't move to occupy North?" (B92)

Asked whether a paper mentioned in the press - proposing a final solution for relations between Serbia and Kosovo - exists, Serbian President Vucic responded - "judge by yourselves," B92 reports.

"I better not respond. I think everyone knows the correct answer to that question, regardless of what they are saying," the President of Serbia told reporters on Friday.

As he added, the issue of Kosovo is the most difficult and the most responsible one, which reflects "all of our, but also his concerns."

Kosovo received “yellow light” from US to act stubborn (Danas)

Pristina received some sort of “yellow light” from Washington to “act stubborn” before the next phase of negations in Brussels on resolving the Kosovo issue, which is shown by the refusal of Kosovo representatives to take part in a new round of technical dialogue, Danas daily reports referring to unofficial diplomatic sources.