The meeting on Tuesday between President Aleksandar Vucic and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Hoyt Brian Yee "could be summarized into two key points."
According to the Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti, these points are: deep disagreement over the issue of Kosovo and Metohija, and continuing pressure on Serbia to abandon its close relations with Russia.
There is absolutely no alternative to working together, First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has told the OSCE Mediterranean Conference, Tanjug agency reported.
The current refugee and migrant situation calls for unabated attention, efficiency and, above all, solidarity of all relevant actors, Dacic said as he addressed the gathering in Palermo, Italy.
Commenting yesterday's arrest of Serbian List activists, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić estimates for RTS that this is not a coincidence, adding that Pristina, perhaps and a part of the international community, does not correspond to unity of Serbs and institutional ties with the state of Serbia, TV Most reports.
President of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Ivica Dacic called upon Serbs in Kosovo and internally displaced persons eligible to vote, to participate in local elections on 22 October and vote for Srpska Lista, Serbian media reported.
Dacic said these elections are of great importance to the Serb people and decisive about their destiny in Kosovo.
A working meeting of the Union of Srpska Lista Women was held in Mitrovica North yesterday, and participants said women in this area are very strong and ready to face political circumstances, Kontakt plus radio reported.
Jasmina Dedic, the Chair of the Union and a municipal assembly candidate of the Srpska Lista in the forthcoming elections, said that women gathered to offer support to the Srpska Lista mayoral candidate Goran Rakic.
The New Party (established in 2013 and headed by a former Serbian PM Zoran Zivkovic) called upon Serbs in Kosovo to support the candidacy of the leader of CI SDP, Oliver Ivanovic in the forthcoming Kosovo local elections, Blic daily reported.
The party said Oliver Ivanovic “fights for the interests of all Serbs in Kosovo, and not for the interests of the few people from Belgrade and their Kosovo branches,” Blic reported.
Five journalist and media associations (NUNS, NDNV, ANEM, LP and AOM) in the strongest terms condemned airing of a promotional video on TV Most and TV Pink by which “a horrific campaign” is underway against Oliver Ivanovic and his colleagues Dragisa Milovic and Dragan Jablanovic, Serbian media reported.
“The acts of the above mentioned media represent a grave violation of journalistic standards and electoral rules, something that Oliver Ivanovic warned the Independent Media Commission in Kosovo yesterday and complained against the work of TV Most from Zvecan,” KIM Radio reported.
The first meeting of the Working Group to support internal dialogue on Kosovo, would be held after the Kosovo local elections, Politika daily reported today.
Following the meeting, Politika reported it could become public when the dialogue would start formally and who would receive the first invitations to the consultations on Kosovo.
Serbian President Vucic said earlier, he expects to come up with a proposal for Kosovo in March 2018.
Srpska Lista said that members of the Party of Kosovo Serbs (PKS) stormed its election hub in Leposavic and verbally and physically attacked five Srpska Lista activists, who sustained slight bodily injuries, Tanjug news agency reported.
Mayoral candidate for Mitrovica North municipality, Oliver Ivanovic stated that since the last campaign in 2013 until today nothing has been done in Mitrovica. “Security became topic number one,” Ivanovic said. He criticized the work of TV Most and TV Pink that took the side of one political option, KIM Radio reported.
Ivanovic said the pre-election campaign is held under weird circumstances, and there is no possibilities that candidates debate about their opinion.