Kosovo government

Our reporter said that the Albanians in question "showed the children the middle finger and uttered obscenities in Albanian and English" - telling them also that there was "no place for them in Kosovo, as it was Albanian territory."

This will happen "if both sides demonstrated true statesmanship and leadership," Beta quoted him as saying.

When asked if the talks on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina were actually entering the final stage, the US ambassador said on June 2 in an interview with the RTK2 that it depended on the statesmanship and courage of both sides.

We have encouraged the government to work methodically on the transitioning of the KSF and to continue its campaign in Kosovo, as well as with international partners, to secure maximal support for this transition," the embassy said in a written reply to Albanian language newspaper Koha, adding:

In the platform on what they called "the final phase of the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue" Pristina authorities state that the dialogue's goal is Kosovo's membership in the UN and "mutual recognition."

Dacic, however, points out that the dialogue has been "status-neutral from the outset", and that Kosovo's status cannot be "defined in advance," RTS reported over the weekend.

Kosovo has made all necessary preparations to bid for Council of Europe (CoE) membership however the Government officials give no date when the application will be submitted, writes Gazeta Express.

Kosovo Government is planning to establish the Army through changes that would broaden the responsibilities of the existing Kosovo Security Force (KSF) as one of the modalities to bypass a Serb veto. The KSF Ministry pledges that by 30 April they will proceed the Draft Law on Army to the Government, Gazeta Express reports.

Albanian language daily Epika e Re is reporting that said there was "major engagement on the rule of law and war against corruption and organized crime during the last seven months."

Tanjug reported this on Tuesday, citing UNMIK's Media Observer.

Asked what President Aleksandar Vucic and the government should do next, related to Kosovo and Metohija, 36 percent said the Brussels dialogue should continue.

33 percent think that negotiations should be abandoned until the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) has been formed in Kosovo.

According to the poll, ten percent of respondents favor military intervention.

The Serbs announced their exit after last week's incidents and arrest of Serbian official Marko Djuric.

Krasniqi, from the ruling PDK, said the Serb List could now return, considering that Interior Minister Flamur Sefaj has resigned.

Fethullah Gulen, the Turkish preacher who has lived in voluntary exile in the US since 1999, on Tuesday criticized the deportation of six Turkish citizens from Kosovo to Turkey in an operation conducted by Turkish state intelligence, likening it to a hijacking.