Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic met on Thursday in Belgrade with Chinese Minister for Veteran Affairs Sun Shaocheng. According to the Serbian Government, they discussed "overall relations of the two countries and further forms of enhancing cooperation."

Brnabic assessed that relations between the People's Republic of China and Serbia are remarkable and characterized by a comprehensive strategic partnership and "steel friendship".

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic has warned that in the two months after the summit in Berlin, pressure on Serbia will be fiercer than ever before.

"The Berlin summit did not bring a solution, but a step has been made, given that Germany and France insist on the unblocking of the dialogue and the resumption of talks between Belgrade and Pristina," Dacic said in op-ed published by Srpski Telegraf.

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday there can be no agreement with Pristina without Belgrade's consent. And Serbia will protect the interests of the people and the state, he told Prva TV a day after the meeting on Kosovo in Berlin, called by Germany and France.

"They can threaten us with anything, they can threaten us with whether or not we will join the EU, (but) there is the national, state interest. Just as our European path is important, it is important for us to protect the interests of the people and the state," Dacic underlined.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met on Friday in Beijing with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The two leaders are in China for the Belt and Road forum.

According to announcements coming from both sides before the meeting, the main topic was Kosovo.

At the start of their conversation, Putin said he was satisfied with economic cooperation between Russia and Serbia, and that he was glad he could discuss bilateral and regional issues with Vucic.

It's important for Serbia to cooperate with China as it's a great power, which, unlike others, doesn't exert pressure on our country, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in Beijing.

Speaking at a panel organized by China's Communist Party ahead of the Second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, Vucic stressed that cooperation between people should not be treated as a matter on the sidelines, but that this is instead the basis for building all other forms of cooperation.

President Aleksandar Vucic arrived early on Wednesday in Beijing, starting his two-day visit, during which he will meet with Chinese and Russian presidents. Vucic will, in addition to bilateral issues, talk with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin primarily about Kosovo and Metohija.

At the airport in Beijing, the president of Serbia, who heads numerous ministerial delegations, was greeted with honorary guard of the Chinese Army, and a red carpet.

President Aleksandar Vucic would face pressure in Berlin over Kosovo and Metohija, therefore the meetings he would have in Beijing with Chinese and Russian presidents are very important, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic told TV Pink.

Dacic noted he does not expect pressure related to making some new framework of the content of the agreement with Pristina, but “there would certainly be the culmination of pressure on Serbia to continue the dialogue regardless of Pristina tariffs.”

The Serbian President and leader of the ruling SNS party told a party gathering in Belgrade that he would face a request to recognize a full independence of Kosovo, without divisions and "full and integral territory of an independent Kosovo," Serbian media reported.

He said he would speak with the presidents of China and Russia in Beijing and then head to Berlin for very difficult meetings with the leaders of France and Germany.

Blic daily writes that Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader and President Aleksandar Vucic will decide on the date of parliamentary elections in Serbia after important meetings abroad. According to the article, Vucic has spoken with his closest associates to tell them he would not accept any ultimatums of the opposition.

The newspaper added that Vucic addressed a video conference with presidents of 25 districts and eight city boards (of his party) in Belgrade and sent them a message ahead of a large SNS rally on Friday in the Serbian capital.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic met on Thursday with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang in Dubrovnik. The meeting took place in Croatia during the gathering of the heads of government of the Central and Eastern European Countries and China (16+1).

Brnabic said that bilateral economic cooperation between Serbia and China, "which is getting stronger and more intense month in month out," was discussed, the government announced.