Mitrovica, Kosovo

The second day of Vucic's visit to Kosovo was marked by incidents and the roadblocks put up by ethnic Albanians on the way to the Serb village of Banje.

The president then decided to return to Kosovska Mitrovica, as police informed him that the blockades were two kilometers ahead of the convoy, and that it was not safe to continue the trip.

At the suggestion of Serb List parliamentary group, the councillors decided to rename Nemanjina street, where the Kosovska Mitrovica municipality building was located, to Olivera Ivanovica street.

After the assassination of Ivanovic, his party colleagues and sympathizers started a petition asking that a street in the town be named after him.

The assembly in the northern Serb-run side of the Kosovo town of Mitrovica has named a street after the murdered politician Oliver Ivanovic – angering Ivanovic’s party, which said it had another street in mind.

"We will not make any decision without you, none, and I am coming to Kosovo and Metohija in September, because I want to talk to all of you and tell you what will be new in the talks about the future of Kosovo and Metohija, to jointly plan, to jointly build and to live jointly," Vucic is quoted as saying.

Leaked documents that BIRN has seen reveal that Kosovo Serb stakeholders that the team tasked to draft the controversial statute in Kosovo on the Association of Serbian Municipalities consulted believe the statute should allow the education and health sectors to remain reliant on Serbia.

Radio Kontakt Plus is reporting this, adding that the young Serb was taken to the hospital in northern Kosovska Mitrovica with stab wounds.

The victim's brother was also injured when he was attacked with pepper spray, the radio said it learned unofficially.

Another of a new expected meeting between the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia, the Council of the European Union has said that progress by Serbia and Kosovo towards normalisation of their relations is essential - and will determine the pace of their respective European integrations.

Vucic made this comment after Kosovo president's adviser Rexhep Hoti said on Monday that "a partition of Kosovo is not on the agenda - but if it was then Kosovo should take Sandzak (informal term for Serbia's southwestern region) and a part of southern Serbia."

Serbian police on Thursday said they had started a search for Stefan Cvetkovic, a journalist covering the murder of the Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, after his abandoned car was found in his hometown of Bela Crkva in northern Serbia.

The police said they found the car Cvetkovic was using parked with the doors open and the lights still on.

In an email sent to the European External Actions Service on May 25, Avni Arifi, who has led Kosovo's delegation in EU-led talks with Serbia since January, said Pristina will not take any further part in normalisation talks until Serbia implements six pending agreements in full.