The village of Krusha, Municipality of Rahovec/Orahovac, is expected to file a lawsuit against Serbia for the alleged crimes committed in this village.  Mayor of the village, Selami Hoti said that the locals have opened an office in the village, in which are being offered evidence for criminal and civil lawsuits to be filed for crimes that happened during the conflict in 1999.  "Half of the residents of the village have already reported damages and evidence that they have. Also, we ask all those who still have not submitted their claims to do so as soon as possible," said Hoti.

The Commercial Chamber of Commerce of Serbia and Commercial Chamber of Kosovo are organizing tomorrow in Gračanica/Graçanicë business gathering of around 70 entrepreneurs and companies.

The gathering, which symbolically takes place on the Day of Victory, will bring together, amongst other, companies MK Group, Victoria Group, Asseco See, Imlek, Bambi, Knjaz Miloš, Zlatiborac from Serbia and companies Elkos, Albakos, Devolli Corporation from Kosovo.

German Ambassador to Serbia, Heinz Wilhelm said that Germany has no new conditions for the opening of chapters in Serbia's EU accession negotiations, but added that more needs to be done on the implementation of the Brussels agreement.

The Brussels agreement is crucial for the opening of Chapter 35 and that Germany insists on opening of this chapter among first, Wilhelm said for Radio and Television of Vojvodina.

The Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Ali Ahmedov and other senior Azerbaijani officials told the Serbian officials that the country would never recognize the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo and expressed appreciation for Serbia’s readiness to treat the Nagorno-Karabakh issue in the same manner.

Kosovo Serbs hope that President Tomislav Nikolic’s new ‘Kosovo platform’ will finally address the longstanding issue of Serbs who were abducted or went missing during and after the war.

The Association of Missing and Kidnapped Kosovo Serbs said on Monday that Nikolic’s so-called ‘Kosovo platform’ was their “last hope” of finding out what happened to more than 1,000 Kosovo Serbs who went missing during and after the 1999 war.

Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtic said that there was no meaningful return of displaced persons from Kosovo in latest five months and that only one family has returned to village Crkolez in Istok/Istog Municipality, which is the only officially registered return in said period, reported Tanjug.

Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will take part in a Friends of Serbia meeting in Brussels on May 18, the Serbian government office for media relations said on Thursday.

All the foreign ministers from EU countries will be at the meeting, and Vucic was invited by Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz and his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni.

The ambassadors of Austria and Italy, Johannes Aigner and Giuseppe Manzi, presented Vucic with the invitation and said that the meeting was an expression of their countries' support for Serbia's faster EU integration.

If they want to join the EU, Belgrade and Pristina will have an obligation to sign another agreement that will allow the admission of Kosovo to the United Nations.

The full membership of Kosovo in the UN will enable entry into other international organizations such as the OSCE, Council of Europe, and finally, the European Union; say Western diplomatic sources for Blic explaining what brings the future agreement, the so-called Brussels 2, which has been recently debated in public.

Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga said to German Foreign Minsiter Frank-Walter Steinmeir that the only alternative for Kosovo and the region is the EU integration.

Jahjaga stressed that “Kosovo and Serbia have reached certain number of agreements in the process of the dialogue on normalization of relations, and that European path of Serbia has to be conditioned with the implementation of international obligations”.

The coordinator of the talks between Belgrade and Pristina, Blerim Shala said today that Germany requires the signing of the agreement between Serbia and Kosovo in 2016.

"Our goal is, but also the request of Germany, to sign the peace agreement between Kosovo and Serbia in 2016. By the signing, Kosovo will seek membership in the UN and other international organizations," Shala said to the KTV, television based in Kosovo.