Jeremic: To boycott elections, then all decisions, including the ones on Kosovo, illegitimate (Kosovo-online portal)
German Special Envoy to the Balkans: "The road-map is clear, only that Serbia and Kosovo will not be eventually united" (Blic)
Belgrade based daily Blic writes today that the great American diplomatic return to the Balkans, obviously initiated by the EU’s inability to unravel the Kosovo knot, has sparked nervousness in the EU, and emissaries come to see what can be done after Mogherini's diplomatic collapse.
Vucic: They boycott elections in Belgrade but not in Pristina (Beta, N1)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that those who boycott the elections in Belgrade are not doing that in Pristina because, as he said, “the conditions seem to be perfect over there.”
He thanked the Serbs who showed support to the Serbian List, which runs in the Kosovo elections, and he added that a lot of pressure was exerted on all others to run only to seize votes from the Serb List.
Vucic: Foreign representatives gave money to Srpska Lista’s rival candidates (KoSSev)
Zeman: It would be tough, but Prague could withdraw recognition of Kosovo (Beta, N1)
Serbian Defence Minister wants demarcation with Albanians (Vecernje Novosti, N1)
Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin told Friday’s Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti that demarcation between Serbs and Albanians should be implemented as soon as possible.
The sooner we achieve demarcation, the sooner Serbia can focus on itself and the Serbs outside its borders, he said and added that he would like to see his stand adopted by the president and government.
Kosovo court sentences six for planning attacks on KFOR and SPC (N1, KoSSev, Beta)
The Basic Pristina Court sentenced six people to a total of 25 years in jail for planning terrorist attacks on the members of the NATO-led KFOR, the property of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) and discotheques in Serb-populated parts of Kosovo, the KoSSev website reported on Wednesday.
The individual sentences vary from ten years to 12 months in prison.
Moscow will insist on Resolution 1244 regarding Kosovo, says Botsan-Kharchenko (FoNet, Sputnik, N1)
The Russian ambassador to Serbia Alexandar Botsan – Kharchenko said on Wednesday that if his country was involved in solving the Kosovo issue, Moscow would insist on international law and still valid UN Security Council Resolution 1244 “or everything else would be in vain,” the FoNet news agency reported.
He told the Russian Sputnik media outlet that he did not see a favourable international situation for solving the Kosovo issue right now, "especially since the US and some other countries want a quick result."
Number of states withdrawing recognition of Kosovo will continue to drop, says Serbian FM Dacic (Beta, N1)
Serbia aims to reduce the number of countries which recognise Kosovo’s independence to bellow a half of the UN member states and that will happen by the end of the year, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said on Wednesday, the Beta news agency reported.
His words came despite the newly appointed US special envoy for the Western Balkans Matthew Palmer’s warning to Belgrade to stop campaigning against Kosovo’s eventual membership to the international organisations.