Has Sandzak recognized Kosovo? And how will Serbia react?

This raises the question of whether Sandzak (informal term for a region in southwestern Serbia) has recognized Kosovo?

According to media reports on Wednesday, both those in Kosovo and in Serbia, the BNV, headed for a long time by Sulejman Ugljanin, has sent a letter to Pacolli, "deputy prime minister and foreign minister of the Republic of Kosovo" to attend a ceremonial session of the BNV in the town of Novi Pazar.

Kosovo-based website KoSSev said, citing a document seen by Kosovo-based Klan Kosova broadcaster, that Pacolli has been invited to visit Novi Pazar on July 21 and 22, and tour Sandzak an Pester Plateau municipalities on the second day.

Pacolli for his part told Klan Kosova that he will travel to Novi Pazar if Serbian authorities give him permission.

Asked whether this means that the BNV has declared its recognition of Kosovo as an independent state, Milovan Drecun, chair of the Serbian National Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija, told Russia's Sputnik neither he nor Ugljanin have the right to speak on behalf of all citizens in the Raska-Polimlje region (Sandzak) - "in particular the Serbs who live there."

"Also, there are prescribed procedures that allow officials from provisional self-government institutions (in Kosovo) to come to Serbia, and our officials to go Kosovo and Metohija. No one has the right to invite anyone from these institutions to come to central Serbia outside of these procedures and outside the competent state authorities. For someone to invite the so-called foreign minister of a non-existent state? Well that is a message that they recognize this self-proclaimed state. There is no minister of foreign affairs (of Kosovo), there is no state of Kosovo, and no one can come from...