Ambassador of Russia to Belgrade Alexander Chepurin met yesterday the head of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Zahir Tanin. Chepurin told Tanin that Russia counts that the UN will take all measures to investigate the recent attack on a Russian citizen, UNMIK's official Mikhail Krasnoshchekov, reported Belgrade based daily Blic, quoting Chepurin's post on Twitter.
In the meeting with Zahir Tanin, the UN Mission in Kosovo chief, Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s President, accused Pristina of making irrational and unilateral moves and of constantly provoking, showing that its leaders were making the dialogue with Belgrade impossible, the Beta news agency carried a statement from President's office on Tuesday.
The statement said Vucic also condemned the Kosovo police special unit attack on UN personnel, describing it as “an attempt to compromise the UN Mission in Kosovo.”
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic told the Serbian state broadcaster on Monday that the next week’s UN Security Council session on Kosovo would be less important than a meeting in Paris with the same issue on the agenda in July “if it happens,” the FoNet news agency reported.
The sessions of the municipal assembly Zubin Potok, northern Mitrovica, Zvecan and Leposavic, were cancelled, reports daily Blic, quoting Srna agency. Mayors were supposed to take oath and take over duties in the four Serbian majority municipalities in the North.
"Sessions are cancelled until further notice, and about the reasons for the cancellation will be subsequently informed in the statement," the Serbian List said.
Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said yesterday, after the European Parliament elections, that he met President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and assessed as interesting the idea of Serbia being a part of the EU, while opposing the idea of Turkey’s entry, reports Belgrade based daily Blic.
Salvini’s far-right League party won 33,8 per cent votes and will have the most European MEPs.
The latest survey of the Belgrade based agency Faktor Plus, in cooperation with daily Blic, shows that the citizens of Serbia are not optimistic about the solution of the Kosovo problem, they do not expect Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to sign the recognition of Kosovo, and most of them think that the problem will not be resolved soon
President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he regretted that his idea of establishing a final compromise boundary between Serbs and Albanians has failed.
As he said, the idea failed because "our people thought differently, and that will cost us dearly in two to three decades."
The New York Times writes that German Chancellor Merkel and French President Macron should first mediate between Thaci and Haradinaj.
The daily says that Merkel and Macron are to have "any hope of easing tensions between Kosovo and Serbia, and breaking a deadlock in talks on the normalization of relations" - then "analysts say they may first have to broker another peace, between Kosovo's two lead
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Belgrade based daily Blic that he believes that there is no chance of reaching a Belgrade-Pristina agreement.
According to Vucic, everyone in Serbia, the region, Europe and the world “have buried any chance for any kind of agreement” and added that Serbia had shown the will to compromise.
Russia's next ambassador to Serbia, Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko, will arrive to Belgrade in June, when the current ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin leaves his post.
Belgrade based daily Blic writes this, and adds, referring to its diplomatic sources, that Chepurin will continue his career in the Russian Foreign Ministry.