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Attacks on homes of Serb families in Presevo, southern Serbia (IRS)

The police had identified persons that last night, after the incident at the Serbia-Albania football match in Belgrade, attecked homes of Serb families in Presevo, southern Serbia.

A window was broken on one of the houses and the attackers disturbed several other Serb families by knocking on their doors in the middle of the night, Vranje police spokesperson Dragan Stamenković confirmed.

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Preparations for a new ultimatum (Vesti)

The latest assessments of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Serbia’s relations with Brussels and Moscow have caused some confusion about the nature of the President’s message.

On the one hand, he is clearly aware that Brussels could demand that Belgrade introduce sanctions against Russia. But he is also making a subtle threat, saying that outsiders don’t understand Serbia and should try to understand Serbia’s positions.

Nikolic’s position has been interpreted differently by political analysts.

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Nikolic: Serbia suitable country for OSCE chairmanship (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Serbia is a suitable country for OSCE chairmanship at a time when the search for a solution to the problem in Ukraine is underway, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said in an interview for the Russian national television and expressed the wish for the solution to be found soon.

Ukraine is a friend to Serbia and it has not recognised the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo-Metohija, Nikolic said in an interview broadcast by the Saturday news show on the Russia-24 channel.

"Nothing found at suspected mass grave site" (B92)

PRIŠTINA, BELGRADE -- The search of a location in the Piskote village near Đakovica has been concluded with no result, a Priština official has said.

It was suspected that the location contained a mass grave with the remains of Serb civilians kidnapped in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999 by members of the ethnic Albanian KLA, and illegally imprisoned in the Likovac camp before they were murdered.

A total of 73 Serb civilians went missing in the area of Đakovica during the that period of time.

EU expects full implementation of Brussels agreement (Tanjug, Politika, RTS)

BELGRADE - Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport said on Wednesday the EU expected full implementation of the Brussels agreement in the next year and a new momentum to the political talks between Belgrade and Pristina to come as soon as possible in order to achieve further progress in the normalisation of their relations.

Significant effort has been invested to achieve the goal defined by the European Council as comperhensive normalisation, he told a news conference after the European Commission had presented its report on Serbia's progress.

Vukcevic: Further search of site near Djakovica expected (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - No remains were found at the first searched location in the village of Piskota near Djakovica, southwestern Kosovo-Metohija, which is believed to contain bodies of 20 Serb civilians killed in the prison camp of Likovac, Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic told Tanjug on Wednesday.

For now, by the first order of EULEX, 30 meters have been dug over and searched at the location that is the size of a stadium, but the search will continue, Vukcevic said, noting that the remains of (Albanian) victims were found in Rudnica near Raska in the seventh attempt.