A group of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) Bishops have distanced themselves from the SOC statement following the Holy Synod session and a meeting with the President Aleksandar Vucic, Belgrade-based Danas daily writes on Monday. According to Danas the group of bishops headed by Montenegro-Littoral Metropolitan Amfilohije in a letter sent to the Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej said they disagree with the statement of the SOC spokesperson Bishop of Backa Irinej Bulovic on May 18, adding “he has formulated some decisions contrary to the will of the Holy Synod”.

Kosovo Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) Director Bekim Blakaj said in “Slobodno srpski” broadcast that Flora Brovina, member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) should have resigned after publicly displaying a photo for which she claimed represents a raping of an Albanian woman by the Serbian army, which later turned out to be a hoax and the photo was in fact taken from a porn site in Iraq. Blakaj also said the statements by some politicians that more than 20.000 women were raped during the war in Kosovo were exaggerated and he personally doesn’t believe in them, Radio kontakt plus reports.

The leader of a Roma political party has called Serbia’s top officials to include the interests of the Roma national minority in the negotiations on Kosovo.

Roma Party leader Srdjan Sajn released an open letter prior to Monday’s parliament debate on Kosovo to President Aleksandar Vucic, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and the heads of all parliament groups recalling that more than 100,000 Roma fled Kosovo.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic would today present to the National Assembly a detailed report on the current negotiations on resolving the issue of Kosovo and Metohija.

Parliamentary session on Kosovo and Metohija would be held on Monday for the first time in six years, even though the Serbian state leadership repeatedly claims the issue of Kosovo is a pivotal state matter, KoSSev portal reports. KoSSev continued that according to some of the Serbian opposition members this session is another “reality show“ of the President Aleksandar Vucic and “a bait“ to bring the opposition back to the parliament.

“People who voted for Oliver Ivanovic in the previous elections now voted for Goran Rakic,” Mitrovica Hospital Centre Director Milan Ivanovic said on Friday, adding this shows that the Serbs did not kill Ivanovic, KoSSev portal reported. Kosovo Serb representatives met with the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric in Belgrade on Friday. In a joint meeting seven conclusions were adopted.

Serb European Movement in Kosovo and Metohija Chair Rada Trajkovic has said the President Aleksandar Vucic is slowing down the investigation into the murder of Oliver Ivanovic by "providing abolition to Milan Radoicic," who is suspected by Kosovo prosecution of being involved in this case.

Serbian Minister of Labor Zoran Djordjevic as an envoy of President Aleksandar Vucic has attended the swearing-in ceremony of the re-elected President of the Union of Comoros Azali Assoumani.