Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci said that the signing of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement is the most important step Kosovo is making towards EU membership. “Signing of the SAA is proof of the success the state of Kosovo has made and of our commitment to European values. This contractual agreement contains mutual obligations: commitment of Kosovo for reforms and commitment of the EU to assist us much more in this process, until the fulfillment of European perspective,” Thaci wrote on his Facebook profile.

President of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Gjorgi Ivanov has dismissed the country’s ambassador to France and representative to UNESCO, Agron Baxhaku. It is believed that Baxhaku’s dismissal is connected to the support he expressed for Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO during the meeting of the organization’s Executive Board. Baxhaku’s mandate was set to end in December but President Ivanov decided to move it earlier. Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO will be put to vote this November at the general conference and it is not certain which way will FYROM vote go.

The outcome of voting at the UNESCO General Conference on admitting the so-called "Republic of Kosovo" is difficult to predict, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Alexey Pushkov said yesterday.

Russia and its allies oppose the Kosovo's membership in UNESCO, Pushkov told reporters ahead of the promotion of his book in Serbian language: "Post Scriptum - Can Putin Help Russia".

After 20 years of peace, Republika Srpska threatens to tear apart the agreement that has held Bosnia together. The West must stop it.

Lost in the cacophony of international news about Russian airstrikes against U.S.-backed anti-Assad rebels in Syria and refugees flooding through the Balkans on their way to Western Europe, a crisis is brewing in Bosnia-Herzegovina on the European Union’s southeast flank. And here, too, Moscow has a hand in the mischief-making.

In the next twenty days Serbia will engage all its diplomatic capacities aimed at winning as more as possible states at UNESCO General Conference against Kosovo’s membership in that organization, along with winning those who abstained from voting at the UNESCO Executive Council. The option of requesting a postponement of the decision is also at the table.

Members of the civil society, marched today in Pristina to  protest against the violence at the Assembly of Kosovo. They appealed to postpone the Assembly session planned for today.

Writer and analyst from Kosovo and Methohija Živojin Rakočević claims that if Kosovo becomes member of UNESCO it would be one of the most difficult defeats of Serbia in the 21th century. "The first one was separation of Montenegro, the second was self-declaration of (independent) Kosovo and the third one would be membership of Kosovo in UNESCO," said Rakočević

Following the decision of the UNESCO Executive Council to support proposal for Kosovo’s  membership in this organization, it remains questionable what are Serbia’s abilities for changing this decision in November at UNESCO General Conference, which is due to decide about Kosovo’s membership.

Despite the decision of the UNESCO Executive Council to recommend Kosovo's membership to the General Conference, Serbia's Ambassador to UNESCO Darko Tanaskovic estimated Serbia's chances as "not small", to block Kosovo's admission into the UNESCO.

While waiting for French consortium to submit financial guarantees for the construction of  Tourist Center Brezovica, distrust toward this master plan is growing, whereas Serbian Ski Resorts have informed the Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa that they would launch a procedure requesting international arbitration with regard to Kosovo government’s decision to expropriate property of the Ski Resorts Brezovica (Serbian Public Company). There was no reaction so far on the side of the Kosovo government and relevant ministries.