MILAN –  Authorities in Italy and Kosovo have detained four Kosovars suspected of making threats against the pope and a U.S. diplomat.

Italian police said Tuesday that three were detained in Italy; one was being held while two were expelled under anti-terrorism measures. Kosovo police, meanwhile, arrested an ethnic Albanian south of Pristina who had a pistol and a rifle in his possession.

Vetevendosje deputy and Vice-President of the Assembly of Kosovo, Aida Derguti, stated that exclusion of the opposition deputies from today’s session of the Assembly, is in contradiction with the working regulation of the Assembly of Kosovo and the Constitution of Kosovo. She also announced organizing of the protests. “In a country where opposition is not within the parliament, then it cannot be called a parliament,” Deguti said.

Security has blocked the deputies from the Kosovo Assembly opposition parties and it does not allow them to climb to the alternative hall of the Assembly.

Kosovo Assembly President, Kadri Veseli, informed after the meeting of Assembly Chairmanship that the meeting would resume in thirty minutes, however, leaders and deputies of the Vetevendosje Movement, Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), and the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), were not allowed to enter the Assembly hall.

The director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Đurić, said that no one should expect Serbia to change its position with regard to the status of its southern province, however he argues that Belgrade and Pristina have considerable room for settling issues of a joint interests and creation of lasting stability in that region.

Creation of the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities is conditioned with the removal of Serbian parallel structures in Kosovo, says Kosovo government. This is the agreement that was in principle reached in Brussels and is parallel with a process of drafting the status of the A/CSM, where three-party group would work on the abolishment of ‘parallel structures’.

Serbia in continuity strives for finding solutions of disputable issues with regard to southern province, stated Marko Djuric, referring to writings of Pristina-based media that Serbian Governments had officially requested from the EU to monitor and manages services in charge for the air space over Kosovo.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said in Zagreb on Wednesday evening that Belgrade and Pristina should continue negotiations, but in an open and sincere fashion, and that they should also implement the reached agreements.

The Association of families of kidnapped and murdered in Kosovo andMetohija called on Thursday for tabling the issue of kidnapped and missing Serbs in Kosovo at the upcoming OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Belgrade.

Association of journalist of Serbia and Association of journalists from Kosovo and Metohija request from Kosovo authorities to investigate circumstances in which a vehicle of KoSSev web portal journalist Nevenka Medic was burnt, and publicly present results of the investigation.

Opposition parties assess that the Government has started to change its position towards the requests of the opposition parties on the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities and demarcation of the border with Montenegro. According to the officials of opposition parties, this is happening due to the activities of the opposition.