Army Chief of General Staff Lieutenant General Miloje Miletic stated that there is a certain tension in the north of Kosovo-Metohija ahead of the decision of the UN General Assembly, adding that there are no serious threats to security.

"There is a certain tension eve of the UN General Assembly decision, but anyway we cannot qualify it as serious jeopardy of security situation," Miletic said. He recalled that President Tadic will confer with High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton in Brussels.

"I am certain that a compromise (over the status of Kosovo-Metohija) will be reached, and that these problems may be solved by peaceful means," he told reporters after a meeting with Portugal's Army Chief of Staff Luis Valenca Pinto.

The UN General Assembly will discuss Serbia's draft resolution on Kosovo-Metohija in New York.

Serbian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Miloje Miletic has said security in the state is "stable" and that recent events in Novi Pazar do not pose a serious threat to that stability.

Miletic told reporters at the army headquarters that the events in Novi Pazar "should be neither overestimated nor underestimated," but pointed out that those events indicate a problem in that region of Serbia that must be solved in a peaceful manner.