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Dacic: Belgrade won’t recognise Kosovo first, and then talk (N1, Beta)

Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday that Serbia would not first accept the independence of Kosovo and then negotiate with Pristina, adding "that’s for sure," the Beta news agency reported.

After meeting his Cape Verde’s counterpart Luis Filipe Taveras in Belgrade, Ivica Dacic told reporters that "unilaterally declared independence (of Kosovo) was an illegal act."

"Our stand is that we don’t recognise Kosovo, an illegal creation."

Dacic: "Kosovo in UN? Never" (Serbian media)

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says that Serbia will not recognize Kosovo's independence and allow UN membership, and stresses that Pristina authorities daily send very diverse messages that are not related to reality, reports Serbian media.

In the case of Kosovo, a compromise should be sought, and for the statements of Hashim Thaci regarding the merger of Presevo, Dacic says that "he must say something, because he is attacked from all sides".

Vucic-Thaci meeting in September uncertain (RTS, Tanjug)

EU High Representative Federica Mogherini announced on Friday that another meeting of the presidents, Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci during the Brussels dialogue will be held in September, prior to the start of the ministerial week of the UN Security Council in New York. However, diplomatic sources of Tanjug in the EU say it is uncertain whether there will the meeting, reports Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).

Diplomatic sources state that the problem can be a timeframe, but also a justification for the meeting.

"South Tyrol" for Serbs, but in an independent state of Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)

Vecernje Novosti today write that the authorities in Pristina largely present to the western embassies their solution for the status of an independent Kosovo in which the position of the Serbs would be arranged by the model of South Tyrol in Italy.

This action coincided with the agreement of Hashim Thaci and Ramush Haradinaj that there is no negotiation of demarcation and threatens to place Belgrade before a fait accompli, Novosti learns.

Janjic: The Church is not for any kind of conflict, and it is not for the frozen one too (RTK2, Vreme, Beta, Danas)

Abbot Sava Janjic says to Vreme, the weekly based in Belgrade, that the security situation in Kosovo is very tense after statements by politicians from Belgrade and Pristina, but also from the international community, who talk about “delineation" or "border correction".

"Such irresponsible statements and a special media campaign that attempts to impose this "solution" on the public as the only right one, worsened relations multiple times between Albanians and Serbs," Janjic told the weekly Vreme.

Kandic to Thaci: Allow the Serbs from Gjakovica to visit the church (NMagazin, Danas, N1, Press, B92, Blic)

The founder of the Humanitarian Law Center, Natasa Kandic, called on Kosovo President Hashim Thaci to allow Serbs from Djakovica to visit the church this year.

"On this occasion, please personally engage so that the Serbs from Djakovica on August 28, 2018, visit the church and their homes and them not to be exposed to humiliation as the previous year," said Kandic in an open letter published in the Belgrade based daily Danas.