Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday in Vienna that Serbia is committed to finding a compromise solution between Belgrade and Pristina to resolve the Kosovo issue, Serbian media reported.
"I am not sure that the other side wants it," Dacic said at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers, attended also by the heads of diplomatic missions of the candidate countries in Vienna.
For days now, he has been referred to as an enemy of the state, as anti-Serbian, from much of the Belgrade media and by the highest representatives of Srpska Lista (the Serbian List) – the largest political party of Kosovo Serbs – just like in the years leading up to the war in Kosovo and the bombing of Yugoslavia when Milocevic and his party had the same words for Father Sava Janjic, KoSSev portal reports.
Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday that "the whole western world, with exceptions, considers Kosovo as a whole, sovereign, and indivisible territory," Serbian media reports today.
This was the Serbian president's reaction to German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying a day earlier she was "against changing borders in the Balkans."
"She already did delimitation between us - by separating the whole of Kosovo from Serbia," Vucic said, and the concept of "delimitation" with the Albanians that he has been advocating for recently.
Radomir Laban, who escaped central Serbia to avoid going to jail on a corruption conviction, has been named a judge of the Kosovo Constitutional Court.
The head of Serbia’s Parliament Kosovo Committee said that a final stage of Belgrade – Pristina dialogue was approaching and that the diplomatic activities should increase, adding that Serbia would not allow Kosovo to become a UN member.
Milovan Drecun, of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), added that the final status discussion demanded a new format of negotiations.
The Presidents of Serbia and Kosovo will meet with European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini in Brussels on July 18, European Commission spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic tweeted on Thursday.
A statement on the European External Action Service web site said Mogherini would meet with Presidents Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaçi as part of the EU-facilitated dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, reports Serbian media.
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, at an extraordinary press conference, said that the Kosovo police arrested the head of the Kosovo-Pomoravlje District Radovan Stojkovic, the director of the branch office of the National Employment Service Jovan Denic, and Nenad Stojanovic, a member of the Serbian Army living in Kosovo, in the municipality of Gnjilane and working in Vranje.
Serbian media this morning reports about the action of the special units of the Kosovo police in the Gnjilane region.
Media reports that Kosovo police raided the premises of the Cultural and Educational Center "Bozidar Mitrovic Sandor" in Silovo near Gnjilane. Radio television of Serbia (RTS) reports that three Serbs were detained in action.
The statements of politicians in Pristina show that their nervousness is heightened, which means that something does not go the way they have planned and imagined that it has already been solved, and that someone in the international community begins to look at things differently than they hoped to be, said today the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric in a statement.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said there are no proposals for a permanent solution for Kosovo, and that he will inform the public as soon as he has anything new.
''Whatever we do, we have to go to a referendum. Regardless of constitutional changes we make - those need to go for a referendum,'' Vucic told reporters during a visit to the factory in Zemun.