Law on use of languages: Good on paper, not implemented in practice (Radio kontakt plus)
According to the Law on Use of Languages, Serbian and Albanian are the official languages in Kosovo.
Kusturica: Serbia should not give up Kosovo (TV N1)
Famous filmmaker Emir Kusturica said he would not give up an inch of Kosovo because “it was the greatest robbery of the 20th century”.
Kusturica is a Sarajevo-born film director and actor who now lives in western Serbia.
Speaking for TV N1 talk show Pressing Kusturica said that “the solution lies in seeking a solution”.
“We have a situation in which they have ID cards, borders, customs, that was all done long ago, but we have UN Security Council resolution 1244 and the hope that the authorities will not recognize Kosovo and give them a seat in the UN,” he said.
Drecun: We must accept that Greater Albania will be created (TV Pink, B92, Beta)
Serbian Assembly Committee on Kosovo and Metohija chair Milovan Drecun has assessed that the creation of Greater Albania is an irreversible process.
Drecun also told Belgrade based TV Pink that this will be created "in one form or the other" and that this is being done in order to create a counterpoint to Serbia - a territory that could, with its size, resources and population be able to compete with Serbia.
More than 40,000 Albanians ready to leave Kosovo – report (B92, Sputnik, Indeksonline.net)
The mass departure from Kosovo shows that nothing has been done over the past two years economy-wise to make people want to stay, Belgrade based portal B92 quotes the Albanian language website indeksonline.net.
According to the website, almost 40,000 people are currently waiting for the German embassy to reply to their applications to be granted working visas, so they can leave Kosovo as soon as possible.
Serbian Trade Minister: We can't expect CEFTA to solve the tariffs dispute with Pristina (Beta, N1)
Belgrade does not expect the problem of Kosovo’s increase of tariffs on goods from Serbia to be solved through the Central European Free Trade Agreement, CEFTA, and there is no hope for any compensation for the economic damage the policy has caused, said Serbia’s Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, Rasim Ljajic.
"Serb Republic will break away from Bosnia" (B92, NIN, Tanjug)
The Serb Republic (RS) will separate from Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), above all because Serbs are extremely dissatisfied with the common life.
Former British diplomat Timothy Less told this to Belgrade weekly NIN in an interview.
Drecun: Albania looking to annex our territory (B92, RTS, Tanjug)
Milovan Drecun says the "erasing" of the border between Albania and Kosovo is one of the steps leading to Albania's annexation of a part of Serbia's territory.
The chairman of the Serbian National Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija added that this would place a part of the international community that supports Serbia before "a fait accompli." Drecun, a member of the ruling SNS party, told Serbia's public broadcaster RTS that Albania is doing everything to complete the violent annexation of Kosovo.
"We need to reach compromise," says Serbian president Vucic (B92, Tanjug, Espreso.rs, N1)
"It is true that in Kosovo and Metohija not everything is Albanian, and not everything is Serbian, and the truth is that we have to reach a compromise."
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said this in an interview for the espreso.rs website.
He is convinced that "those who do not understand that will lead Serbia into the greatest tragedy from which we will exit defeated, more defeatedg than ever."
Serbia’s Foreign Minister invites US Secretary of State to visit Belgrade (N1, Beta)
Ivica Dacic, the chief of Serbia's diplomacy, said on Wednesday he had invited Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, to visit Serbia, the Beta news agency quoted his Ministry’s statement as saying.
Vucic and his SNS most popular in Serbia, support for EU membership dropping (N1, Beta)
The ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), headed by the country's president as the most popular leader, will have the greatest voters’ support if an early election is held now, while the enthusiasm for the country's EU membership shrinks and Kosovo is "very important" to less than a half of those covered by an opinion poll published on Thursday.