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Dacic: Serbia always for status neutrality of Kosovo (Blic, RTS, Tanjug)

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said today that Serbia will never do anything that would go beyond Kosovo's status neutrality.

Commenting on a statement of the President of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Vladimir Kostic that the reality was that Kosovo is not in Serbia's hands neither de facto nor de jure, Dacic told the RTS that the reality was that Serbia does not have full sovereignty over a part of its territory but that either have it the authorities in Pristina.

Loncar: We will open new departments and services in hospitals in Kosovo (NMagazin)

Serbian Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar said today that the main objective of his ministry was to ensure that the health system in Kosovo functions and expressed satisfaction that in the area of health care, there were no major problems.

Loncar said that there were no major problems with the supply of drugs and procedures and announced that Serbia would open new departments and new services in hospitals in Kosovo.

Troika to change Berlin’s text (Vecernje Novosti)

Serbia has launched a diplomatic initiative to change counts in the draft platform of the so called Kosovo Chapter 35, which was proposed by Germany in the EU accession process. In next couple days Serbia will make efforts aimed at having better text of the platform of Chapter 35, through friendly states in the Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession to the EU (COELA), which is practically the last step before European leaders adopt the final platform.

Konuzin: EU plundering Kosovo from Serbia, Russia ready to help (Pravda)

Former Russian ambassador to Serbia Alexandar Konuzin wrote in a letter published by Pravda web portal that unlike Brussels and Washington, Moscow will never set any ultimatum to Serbia and will do utmost to help friendly Serbian nation.

Konuzin writes that West launched a political and security operation back in 2008 aimed at forcing Serbia to, sooner or later, recognize false state of Kosovo and that he tried to pass this information to Serbian leadership back then.

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Opponents to membership requesting postponement of discussion (Danas)

Belgrade and Pristina are finishing their diplomatic activities ahead of the first measuring of strengths in the UNESCO Executive Council, which is set to decide on Wednesday whether it will, on the basis of the request submitted by Albania, give its recommendation for Kosovo’s membership in that organization, what should be decided in November at the  UNESCO’s General Assembly.

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Stefanovic: Opposition supports government on Kosovo and EU (B92)

Democratic Party (DS) party Vice-President Borislav Stefanovic said that "PM Aleksandar Vucic and the government have the opposition's support on Kosovo."

Beside, Stefanovic stressed that the government "has the support related to European integrations and the Brussels agreement."

The former negotiator in the technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina said he was "not surprised by the statement of the SANU President, Dr Kostic".

Nikolic, Vucic and Patriarch Irinej to discuss Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will meet today Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Patriarch Irinej to discuss the EU's draft platform for Chapter 35 on Kosovo.

According to daily Vecernje Novosti, President of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) Vladimir Kostic was also invited to attend the meeting, to be held at the Serbian Presidency building.