On August 30, the International Day of the Disappeared, the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija (KiM) regrets to observe that over 16 years no progress has been made in resolving the fate of the 1,711 missing persons in Kosovo, or in shedding light on the crimes and punishing the perpetrators, and appeals to the international institutions to help in this matter.

A meeting on the construction of Nis-Pristina-Durres highway was held Thursday ahead of the Western Balkans Summit in Vienna.

The meeting was attended by Serbian and Albanian Prime Ministers, Aleksandar Vucic and Edi Rama respectively, Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, President of the European Investment Bank Werner Hoyer and President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Suma Chakrabarti.

The health condition of Citizens' Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic, whose trial is ongoing at the court in Mitrovica under war crime charges, is somewhat better on Wednesday than in the previous days, doctors of the North Mitrovica hospital stated.

The doctors said at a press conference that they will do everything possible to ensure that Ivanovic is ready for the continuation of the trial on September 10.

The United States welcomed the important agreements reached between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels and lauded the dedication of both sides to this process.

"The agreements finalized today on energy, telecommunications, establishment of an Association/Community of Serbian Municipalities, as well as on the Freedom of Movement/Mitrovica Bridge, will improve the lives of people in both countries," reads a statement issued by the U.S. Department of State on Tuesday.

National Assembly Speaker Maja Gojkovic met on Tuesday with Agustin Conde, rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, as part of the preparation of the report and resolution of the Council of Europe on the situation in Kosovo and Metohija.

Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić stated, in the eve the new round of dialogue in Brussels, that many, including Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci, do not know what executive competencies are, and added that Serbia won’t agree on Kosovo becoming a sovereign state like Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Thaci earlier stated that Kosovo won’t allow creation of the new Republic of Srpska, what prompted Serbian Prime Minister to say that “Serbia won’t agree on Kosovo becoming a sovereign state, like B&H”.

Serbia is committed to the policy which will bring stability to the Western Balkans, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in the talks with Head of the EU Delegation in Serbia Michael Davenport on Monday.

Vucic and Davenport discussed the Tuesday continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in Brussels, the situation in the region and migrant tide, the Serbian government Office for cooperation with the media released.

Political analyst from Kosovo Nexhemedin Spahiu said that threats involving violence coming from the opposition party Self-Determination due to creation of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities (A/CSM) could be dangerous only if supported by the Kosovo authorities.

Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said that he will take part in a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Kosovo on August 21 and a UN conference in Mexico, where he will have important bilateral meetings touching on Kosovo, a few days later.

Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic conferred on Monday with the newly-appointed head of the UN Office in Belgrade Simona-Mirela Miculescu.

During the first meeting, the cooperation with the UN Office in Belgrade so far has been qualified as positive and the officials expressed the belief that it would continue and develop even more intensely in the time to come, the Ministry released.