President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic said Pristina could submit any topic they wished and "we will eventually see their outcome".

He said that in regard to announcements that the Kosovo president Hashim Thaci would submit the topic of Presevo Valley to the upcoming dialogue in Brussels.

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Telecommunications, Rasim Ljajic told Prva TV the next Vucic-Thaci meeting in Brussels is crucial to resolving the Kosovo issue.

According to Ljajic, after this meeting it would be known if the issue is resolved or it would be yet another failed attempt. He also opined that Kosovo President Hashim Thaci is in a more difficult position than Vucic, since in Kosovo everybody is against the resolution of the Kosovo issue.

It is Kosovo’s fragile democracy that will pay the price of any deal struck by Hashim Thaci to partition the country. The EU should think twice.

“Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger famously asked.

In 2009, Kissinger belatedly got his answer when the Treaty of Lisbon created the post ofHigh Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

But the decade since has done little to consolidate the EU’s 28 states around a coherent, united policy on Kosovo.

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci in an interview for Belgrade based daily Danas says that as leaders they are responsible for the well-being of our children and future generations, when talking about Brussels based negotiation, and he thinks that President Vucic and himself were willing to prevent the past from blocking the future or endanger peace in the region in the next five or 50 years.

Serbian authorities have banned recently officials employed in Kosovo institutions to enter Serbia, and the reason behind such a decision is “red list” where their names are, Serbian media reported referring to Pristina-based Gazeta Express.

Pristina chief negotiator in Brussels talks, Avni Arifi, who is also chief of the PM Haradinaj's Cabinet, said Kosovo would undertake reciprocal measures. Arifi added that Kosovo citizens are also banned to enter Serbia.

The situation is currently such that we have a good opportunity to solve the issue of Kosovo and Metohija with a compromise, Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said.

Dacic also pointed out that he "does not know whether and when there will be a better opportunity."

The position of Russia has changed by it becoming a great power, and one that now much closer to Serbia than it did 20 years ago - while the United States and its foreign policy have also changed, according to the minister.

Professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Dragan Djukanovic, told national broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that he believes that the next round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will be at the beginning of September, and that by then Pristina must give some outlines of the ZSO Statute.

Dragan Djukanovic said visiting the RTS News that a more serious continuation of the dialogue will not happen until the adoption of the final version of the ZSO Statute.

One day prior to deadline to draft the Statue of the Association/Community of Serb-Majority Municipalities (ZSO), Srpska Lista does not believe Pristina would establish it, RTS reported.

Management Team members stated draft statute would be ready within a given deadline and they remain ready, at any moment, at Brussels request to present the text to the implementation councils and participants of a high-level dialogue, RTS added.

Srpska Lista MP, Igor Simic told RTS, Management Team worked hard to prepare the draft statute.

Reconstruction of a road near Visoki Decani Monastery and lack of progress in Oliver Ivanovic murder investigation are reasons for concern in Kosovo, UN SG Antonio Guterres said, Serbian national broadcaster RTS reported. UN SG Guterres at the same time welcomed continuation of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue under EU auspices.

Kosovo has a duty to fully adhere to its legislation on Special Protective Zones and not to commence work on the road until the bypass route is fully planned and funded – the EU Office wrote in a statement, following the visit of EU Heads of Mission to the Special Protective Zone at the Visoki Decani Monastery, KoSSev portal reported.