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Vucic: No solution in sight for continued dialogue with Pristina (Prva TV, B92)

President Aleksandar Vucic told Prva TV on Tuesday that he would like Serbia to lobby more around the world for resolving the issue of Kosovo. So far, this has not been done, he added. Vucic earlier in the day in Belgrade received representatives of the German Bundestag, Peter Beyer and Christian Schmidt.

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Germany to be more involved in Kosovo negotiations – source (BETA, Danas)

Germany is becoming more involved in the negotiations on Kosovo and is requesting that the EU appoint "a powerful envoy with powerful authority" in the fall, BETA learned from well-informed sources in Brussels on March 28. Berlin is decisively against the changing of borders but would be in favor of a solution where the north of Kosovo would have broad authority and Mitrovica North, for example, a status of "free city," like Brcko in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Dragan Djukanovic: Kosovo issue, disagreement between Germany and US (RTS)

If there would be a unified stance of the international stakeholders, Pristina would by now revoke 100 percent tariffs it imposed on goods from central Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Center for Foreign Policy Director, Dragan Djukanovic told RTS. He also thinks there is a higher probability that due to the Kosovo issue extraordinary parliamentary elections in Serbia would take place in May next year, rather than in June this year. “It is expected that the dialogue process would intensify in the next month or two, and it would certainly impact on calling for the elections.

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Dacic to Politika daily: They never asked us what we want with Kosovo

There was never a talk with representatives of the international community about what Serbia would like as an outcome in the negotiations with Pristina, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in an interview for Sunday's edition of the Belgrade based daily Politika, answering the question of whether in the past the issue of the Serbian position has been raised in discussions with influential Western officials.

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Dacic: Some countries are telling Haradinaj - don't do it yet (Tanjug, B92)

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says that "not everyone in the international community wants the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina to continue." And not everybody wants to find a solution for Kosovo and Metohija, he remarked on Friday in Belgrade. Dacic also pointed out that some countries are playing "a double game." The minister responded in this way when asked "how it was possible that neither the US nor the EU and other major players are able to force Pristina to withdraw its taxes on Serbian goods." "I do not believe that this is exactly the case, I have already expressed doub

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Blic: Angela Merkel’s key aides to meet Vucic (Blic, B92)

Jan Hecker, the most important foreign policy adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkle and her adviser for the Balkans Matthias Luttenberg would visit Belgrade this evening, daily Blic reports. According to Blic they would visit Belgrade after their visit to Pristina and would meet Serbian President Vucic either this evening or tomorrow, in an attempt to ease tensions between Belgrade and Pristina. “This meeting is of decisive importance when we speak about the future of the dialogue and relations between the two sides,” diplomatic sources told Blic. Hecker and Luttenberg are in Pristina

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Survey: Germans and French want neither Serbia nor Kosovo in EU (Tanjug, B92, Blic)

International research and data analysis company “YouGov” published a survey on EU countries’ affiliation towards the accession of Serbia and Kosovo to EU, Tanjug news agency reported. The survey was conducted from 17 to 27 December last year, and included 8.535 respondents from seven countries Great Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway, the latter not being the member of the EU. The results of the survey indicated that Swedish and Norwegians would like to see Serbia as an EU member, while Kosovo received no majority support in any of the surveyed countries to become

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