The mayors of the municipalities in northern Kosovo today gave full support to Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic for the formation of a new government, confident that he will be at the helm of the government, it was announced from the office of the mayor of northern Mitrovica Goran Rakić.

The Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija deputy director says it would be "best for both the region and the EU if Pristina included Serbia in its constitution."

Next year, Serbia is facing changes in the Constitution. In addition to an independent judiciary, citizens will decide in a referendum, most likely, on deleting the preamble of Kosovo and reduction of the number of MPs.

Serbia will change at least two times the Constitution until entry into the EU.

UNDP coordinator in Kosovo Andrew Russell has told B92 TV that the problems in Kosovo are the same as in the rest of the region, but that there are enormous structural problems relating to employment. However, he added that thousands of jobs have been created, including for Kosovo Serbs and other minorities.

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Slobodan Vujičić, head of the Association of the Montenegrins of Kosovo, said during the roundtable held today that the agreement between Kosovo and Montenegro on the demarcation of the border, should be initially ratified at the Assembly, then both parties should create a commission that would re- measure the border. He added that solution of this matter should not be political being that Podgorica has expressed readiness to make the required measurements once again.

Despite Zagreb’s announcements that it will again block Belgrade’s negotiations with the EU unless it doesn’t abolish the Law on Universal Jurisdiction, the real threat to Serbia’s European integration actually lays in Chapter 35, which refers to Kosovo.

Chapter 35, which has the same weight in the Negotiation Framework as recently opened Chapters 23 and 24, provides a mechanism for the monitoring of implementation of reached agreements in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

There can be no demarcation where there is no border, the deputy head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Dusan Kozarev said Tuesday in a message to the Pristina interim authorities, urging them to give up hope on ever seeing Serbia draw borders towards its southern province.

Demarcation of the border between Kosovo and Montenegro was defined by the NATO multiethnic forces. The entire debate so far on the issue appears to have been vain.

Gazeta Fjala found out that the borderline between Kosovo and Montenegro was confirmed by Kumanovo Agreement, which ended presence of Serbian armed forces in Kosovo.

This agreement has defined Kosovo’s borderline, by respecting the border situation of 1988.

Kosovo is tiny, smaller than Connecticut, home to 1.8 million people, over 90 percent of whom are ethnically Albanian, and over 95 percent are Muslim. European in location and feel, the Islam is hard to spot, apart from the five calls to prayer punctuating the day. There are a few hijabs around, but far fewer than in London or New York, and when I pointed one out to my host she gently told me that the old woman was not Muslim but Roma, of which there are many. Knowledge of Islam is perfunctory; secularity a matter of pride.

Montenegrin MP from the ranks of the opposition Democratic Front (DF), Milan Knežević, yesterday said during the Assembly session that this party will revoke decision on recognition of Kosovo, as well as the decision on introducing sanctions to Russian Federation, if they win elections in October.