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The "Quint" countries are the US, Germany, Italy, the UK, and France, and their statement concerned Sunday's local elections in four Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo, won by the Serb List.

The EU and its foreign policy chief had to show much more firmness and determination in the enlargement process and, above all, in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina; the lack of leadership was particularly striking in the absence of a response to Pristina's unacceptable taxes (on goods from central Serbia), he told Vecernje Novosti.

The photo was shown in the Kosovo Assembly on Thursday by Flora Brovina, a member of the Assembly during a session that adopted a resolution on "genocide" that Serbia allegedly committed in Kosovo.

Prosecutors have launched an investigation into whether a photograph shown to media by Kosovo MP Flora Brovina on Thursday, which she said showed three Serbian soldiers raping an ethnic Albanian woman during the war, is authentic.

Speaking about the now stalled EU-led Kosovo-Serbia dialogue on the normalisation of relations - progress in which is vital to their respective integration processes - Kapitanovic said both parties should return to the negotiating table.

The new Pristina-Skopje highway has been touted as a major boost to trade with Kosovo's neighbours - but experts say the economic benefits are unclear, and the project also lacks transparency.

The 14th Century fortress of Novo Brdo is again under threat, despite relatively recent rehabilitation work that was intended to deal with damage suffered over many years of neglect, Kosovo's Council for Cultural Heritage has warned.

The fortress, located 40 kilometres east of Kosovo's capital Pristina, stands atop a hill and is protected under Kosovo law.

The exhibition organised by the Humanitarian Law Centre Kosovo opened on Monday, with personal items on display like notebooks, report cards, clothes, shoes, school bags, toys, photos and short stories evoking memories of the children killed in Kosovo between 1998 and 2000.

Vucic and Hodges, who is now with the Center for European Policy Analysis NGO, discussed the security situation in South Eastern Europe and the region, as well as problems in the dialogue with Pristina, the president's press office said in a statement.

The Kosovo prime minister said that he "managed to transfer the main issues on Kosovo" back to Pristina from the the table of the EU foreign policy chief and the Serbian president.