A new round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue at the level of experts will be held in Brussels from Monday until Wednesday.
The topics should include implementation of agreements on the Community of Serb Municipalities, energy, the bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica, freedom of movement and integrated management of administrative crossings.
I suggest the State Department, instead of announcement about Crimea, to explain how they ripped Kosovo from the state of Serbia without referendum, with bombs and missiles, wrote Russian Senator Aleksey Pushkov on his twitter, reports Serbian media.
He reminded that Crimea was Russian at a time when America did not exist. He commented the Washington's condemnation of the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Crimea.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Thursday criticized the idea to create an army in Kosovo.
"The creation of armed forces of Kosovo - a structure that has never in any way approached a state structure - is making the situation even more tense," Zakharova said at a regular press conference, commenting on the statements made this week by US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Wess Mitchell.
Ivica Dacic says he, bearing in mind his experience, believes that a part of the international community and Albanians from Kosovo are lying to President Vucic, reports B92 portal, quoting Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).
The First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister told RTS that the Albanians do not want compromise, but only recognition (of Kosovo). "There is no blackmail that can force Serbia to recognize an independent Kosovo," he said.
Aleksandar Vucic has compared the situation around Kosovo with the game of chess.
The Serbian president spoke for RTS about his meeting on Tuesday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with whom he spoke about Kosovo. As he said, the opinions of Germany and Serbia about a compromise that should be reached by Serbia and Kosovo are very different, report Serbian media.
Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday after his meeting with Angela Merkel that he had "understood all messages" and would work to solve the Kosovo problem.
Speaking in Berlin, Vucic said that a "difficult" road to the EU lies ahead of Serbia, that much has to be done when it comes to (accession negotiations) chapters dealing with the rule of law, but also when it comes to relations with Pristina.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in a TV Happy broadcast “Cirilica” that the conflict between murdered leader of Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice Oliver Ivanovic and Milan Radojcic lasted since 2000, B92 reported.
Vucic further added he never spoke with Radojcic, neither over the phone nor in person, and that maybe Radojcic was in some meetings where Vucic was present, B92 reported.
In the Church of St. Petka in Laplje Selo near Pristina, today at 11 am was planned a parastos to Serbs killed in an attack, and in the village of Livadica near Podujevo, reports Serbian media in Kosovo.
Flowers will be laid at the place where "Nis express" bus bumped into mine 17 years ago, a bus which transported the displaced Serbs to Gracanica for an All Souls Day, accompanied by soldiers of KFOR.
Belgrade based news agency Beta reports that Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabic reacted today and told Serbian media that that Germany's foreign minister did not bring with him a proposal "for resolving Belgrade-Pristina relations."
"Gabriel did not bring any document. We talked about the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina and normalization of relations. Serbia was the first to demonstrate responsibility through internal dialogue (on Kosovo)," she said.
The Serbian List last night expressed dissatisfaction over the immoderate statements made by the head of German diplomacy. They say that they believe that such a wrong assessment of the situation could only come out of the fact that the hosts misinformed the guest, without presenting to him the political and security situation in the right light, Serbian media reports.