Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure, Zorana Mihajlovic said Pristina should urgently annul decision on imposing additional taxes for goods coming from Serbia, BETA news agency reports.

She noted it is necessary to do so if Pristina authorities and the EU wish to talk about normalization of relations.

Asked to comment stance of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Kosovo, she said, “that Serbia is a secular state in which President Vucic is elected in democratic elections.”

Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov said the EU efforts to mediate between Belgrade and Pristina have failed and that the USA is forcing creation of Kosovo army, Tanjug news agency reports today.

“It is obvious the EU efforts have failed, because Pristina rejected to implement all the agreements reached so far,” Lavrov said. Russian Minister added he thinks foremost to the Community of Serb Municipalities.

Federica Mogherini on Thursday in Brussels hosted a meeting of the High Level Dialogue with the President Thaci of Kosovo and President Vucic of Serbia. This has been announced in a press release posed on the EEAS wesbite.

It added that "the European Union expects Serbia and Kosovo to swiftly deliver on their commitment to the dialogue given the direct link between comprehensive normalization of relations between them and the concrete prospects for their EU aspirations."

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said that the dialogue in Brussels will continue when Pristina withdraws its unlawful decisions.

Vucic - who was in Brussels on Thursday for his EU-mediated meeting with Kosovo President Hashim Thaci - that "no Serbian representative will appear in Brussels (again) until that happens."

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday the European Union should secure the implementation of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) making Pristina revoke its decision to increase import taxes for goods from Serbia and Bosnia, Beta news agency reports.

Speaking to reporters in Helsinki at the sidelines of the European Peoples’ Parties (EPP) Congress he said the forthcoming meeting with his Kosovo counterpart Hashim Thaci in Brussels would be awkward, since Belgrade expected the EU to stop Pristina's violation of the CEFTA provisions.

Thursday's meeting between Vucic and Thaci in Brussels is unlikely to bring anything new, but Vucic will criticize the EU, a diplomat Zoran Milivojevic said.

Milivojevic told Prva TV's news program that today's meeting is "not surprising, although it may seem so."

He recalled that the dialogue "almost died in the summer" when a lot of criticism was leveled at the EU, the mediator in the dialogue, regarding the organization's "inability to solve the problem."

The European Union has said Pristina’s decision to raise import taxes on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in response to what it feels is Serbia’s destructive behaviour, was unexpected and the bloc has demanded an immediate explanation of the move, media reported on Wednesday.

The 10 percent higher import taxes were imposed on milk and milk products, water, biscuits, construction materials and fruit juices.

The question of Kosovo is a crucial issue because it is necessary to know how to live with a neighbour to be able to exist within the European Union, Knut Fleckenstein, a member of the European Parliament (EP) told N1 morning show on Tuesday.

He has insisted that the EU does not want to import rivalries and that is why Belgrade and Pristina have to find a way to solve their problems.

“A key topic of debate in Belgrade is the ‘land swap’ proposal; a ‘comprehensive deal’ that would allow Serbia regain disputed territory (North Kosovo) in exchange for Serbia recognising Kosovo as a state. It is, however, not clear whether the Vucic-Thaci talks are going anywhere; nor whether any deal could be sold in Kosovo.

The project implemented by the Danish Refugee Council, with the city of Kragujevac and organizations 'Bozur' and 'Sveti Spas', will assist 30 families of internally displaced persons to return to Kosovo, by providing transportation to families and their belongings to the place of return and basic returnee packages, according to their needs., reports Radio Mitrovica Sever.