The right to use one’s mother tongue - Albanian or Serbian - is essential for everyone in Kosovo, but progress is being prevented by political disputes, the government’s Language Commissioner told BIRN.

“Language rights reflect on all other rights, like fair legal processes, obtaining documents, work rights, healthcare, education, and many more,” Slavisa Mladenovic, the Kosovo government’s Language Commissioner, told BIRN in an interview.

Serbia's First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met on Friday in New Delhi with India's Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu, the Serbian government said.

They spoke about "bilateral cooperation and intensification of political dialogue between the two countries," and "agreed that friendly relations and cooperation are at a very high level, encouraged by last year’s visit of the then prime minister of Serbia and now President Aleksandar Vucic to India."

Western countries have been trying for a while now to change the format of discussions about Kosovo at the UN Security Council, says President Aleksandar Vucic.

International organizations’ reports treat Kosovo as a partially free society for the work of journalists, Editor-in-Chief of RTV KIM, Goran Avramovic said in a broadcast “Sporazum”.

However, I agree with such assessment only if we are looking reality through “pink glasses,” which is often the case in international organizations’ reports, Avramovic added.

Chairperson of the Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun told RTS, Serbia would do its utmost, supported by friendly countries, to prevent decrease or cancellation of UN SC sessions on Kosovo and to keep them open to public.

Drecun said the more realistic reports on Kosovo are, the greater the pressure from countries such as France and UK is to marginalize the UN when it comes to the Kosovo issue.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has told Sputnik that Serbia will ask all members of the UN Security Council to respect Resolution 1244.

He added that Serbia will also ask to keep sessions dedicated to Kosovo open.

According to the Russian website, Dacic said this following news of UK's intention to launch an initiative to either close UN Security Council sessions on Kosovo to the public or stop holding them altogether.

UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres is “concerned” over indicators of deterioration of Belgrade-Pristina relations, in particular following arrest of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director, Marko Djuric, KIM Radio reported.

According to KIM Radio, Gutteres termed “as concerning the conduct of Kosovo police during that action.”

UN Head also urged both sides to avoid inflammatory statements, it was said in a quarterly report.

Only three persons have returned to Kosovo in the last three months, KIM Radio further said.

Anyone even remotely monitoring how the internal political situation in Romania is unfolding, recently has noticed an irreconcilable conflict between the two leading palaces - the presidential (Cotroceni) and the government (Victoria), write today Belgrade based daily Politika.

Media in Serbia announces today that the United Kingdom takes over the presidency of the United Nations Security Council in August. Serbian national broadcaster, RTS reports that the Serbian foreign minister confirmed that London could ask for the sessions on Kosovo to be abolished or to be closed to the public.

Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti writes today that Sofia is carefully polishing the format of forthcoming Sofia Summit, in order not to hurt sensibility of states which have not recognized unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo.

Their message is clear, there would be no room for any kind of Kosovo „statehood“ there.