Serbia Press Review - September 16, 2011

DANAS

Tomislav Nikolic, leader of Serbia's most popular opposition party - the Serbian Progressive Party, SNS - has said that he is ready for cohabitation with Boris Tadic, provided the Serbian president is ready to respect the Serbian Constitution. Nikolic stressed that the Progressives will not tolerate a future head of the government, appointed by the parliament in which the Progressive hold a majority, to be a man like current Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic.

BLIC

Workers have been building a Serbian house, brick by brick, less than a kilometre behind the Jarinje checkpoint between Serbia and Kosovo. German KFOR troops have been placing barbwire to protect checkpoint facilities that were set on fire this summer, while Serbs have starting manning numerous barricades on the road towards Mitrovica. They all are waiting for Pristina to begin its conquest of the border checkpoints. Nothing will be the same again after that.

VECERNJE NOVOSTI

Aleksandar Konuzin, Russian Ambassador to Belgrade, walked out of a Belgrade security forum demonstratively on Thursday after criticising fellow forum participants for failing to raise the issue of the Kosovo customs officials that were about to be sent to the Brnjak and Jarinje border crossings.

Balkan Insight has not verified the facts of the original press reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.