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Cedomir Jovanovic, LDP leader stated yesterday that his party would do everything to help the DS reach an agreement with the SPS, and if it could not do that parallel government would be formed.

The New Serbia (NS) leader Velimir Ilic yesterday said that he was confident that the next government will be formed with the SPS and SRS, even if no agreement has yet been reached.

It appears that the new Serbian government would be made up of the Radicals (SRS), the Democratic Party of Serbia-New Serbia (DSS-NS) coalition, and the coalition gathered around the Socialists (SPS), which also includes the Associated Pensioners Party (PUPS), and United Serbia (NS).

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday said that Russia, India and China advocate a resumption of negotiations between Belgrade and Priština over Kosovo.