Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday received UNMIK head Zahir Tanin, who congratulated him on the formation of the new Serbian government, noting the government and Vucic himself were generally seen around the world as the greatest support to maintaining regional peace and stability.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić said on Tuesday he expected significant US support for preserving regional peace and stability, without which he said there would be no better life for citizens or economic progress.

"We must devote more energy to preserving peace and to stabilisation," Vučić said at a press conference with US Vice President Joseph Biden, thanking him for his support.

The mayors of the municipalities in northern Kosovo today gave full support to Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic for the formation of a new government, confident that he will be at the helm of the government, it was announced from the office of the mayor of northern Mitrovica Goran Rakić.

"Hardd work on Serbia's EU integration path continued" in the wake of Monday's opening of Chapters 23 and 24 in the country's accession talks.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and EU foreign policy and security chief Federica Mogherini made this conclusion on Tuesday, as they met in Brussels.

The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, said that relations between Serbia and Albania are good, however the biggest problem between two states remain their position on the status of Kosovo.

“Non-recognition of Kosovo is a sign that there is no readiness for the open facing with the past and the future,” said Rama in his interview to the Belgrade-based daily Večernje Novosti.

The "Mirdita, dobar dan" ("good day" in Albanian and Serbian) festival was opened in Belgrade on Wednesday afternoon.

The annual presentation of the cultural and social scene of Kosovo is set to run until Saturday.

Organizers have said that their goal was "to bring together two societies aiming to overcome difficult consequences of the past and create conditions for a new start of young generations in the Balkans."

Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday Serbia would continue participation in UN peacekeeping operations under his new government. Vucic said this in conversation with Assistant UN Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations El Ghassim Wane, who is visiting Belgrade, Beta reported quoting a Serbian government statement.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said today that the problem with the passports of the Serbian citizens residing in Kosovo and possibility to travel without visas will soon be resolved. When answering to the reporters' questions Vucic said that the state will solve that problem and pointed out that it will be resolved in accordance with the interests of Serbian people. "They still cannot travel with the passports issued by the European Union in Kosovo, because passports will be issued in three or four months.

Serbia will take all legal measures to challenge the decision of European football's governing body UEFA to admit Kosovo as its member, leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Aleksandar Vucic said.

What happened in Budapest, when UEFA accepted Kosovo as its member, is in contravention of the Statutes. We will take legal action to challenge the decision, he told reporters at the SNS headquarters on Wednesday evening.

The electoral list Aleksandar Vucic Serbia won in the municipality of Gora in Kosovo with 78 per cent of the vote, stated the Gorani Citizens' Initiative.

SPS got 11 per cent and the DS three per cent of the vote.

"The Citizens Initiative of Gorani, as the only political and national organization of Gorani, shares the same values with the president of the SNS, Aleksandar Vucic," said the Initiative.