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Vucic and Rama in a TV show (TV Most, RTS,Blic,Vesti, Akter)

The prime ministers of Albania and Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic and Edi Rama, will be guests in sixty minutes show of the regional TV production "Okruzenje," which is broadcasted in five countries on 11 national and dozens of local television stations, as announced by this production, the RTS will broadcast the show on August 31.

According to the press release, the show will be recorded in a studio in Vienna, during the second conference on the Western Balkans, reports FoNet. The third guest will be Goran Svilanovic, the Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council.

Merkel's visit is in favour of good relations in the region (RTS)

Director of the Government Office for Cooperation with the media Milivoje Mihajlovic hopes that the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Belgrade will be in favour of good neighbourly relations in the region and good relations between Serbia and Germany.

"The interest of Germany for the regional cooperation is huge and it will be the main topic. What brings Merkel, according to Western media, is to speed up the region to the EU with regional cooperation and resolving the remaining issues," said Mihajlovic in the RTS news.

Stojanovic to Engel: ZSO of vital importance (Akter, Politika, RTS,Tanjug)

Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic told U.S. Congressman Eliot Engel that Serbs in Kosovo insist on executive powers for the community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) in the fields of education, economic development, health care and spatial planning.

Stojanovic said to Engel, who is paying a multi-day visit to Kosovo, that this issue is of vital importance for the Serbs.

According to Stojanovic, the U.S. congressman agreed, but urged the Serbs to build their future in Kosovo on an equal footing.

Djuric: Pristina uninterested in agreement (RTS)

Pristina refused to agree on telecommunications and the Community/Association of Serbian municipalities. Serbia is ready to continue the negotiations, but so far there is no exact date for the resumption of dialogue in Brussels, Djuric notes.

Marko Djuric, visiting the RTS, said that Pristina has not been interested to reach an agreement and that at one point it looked as if the talks would be suspended.

Continuation of dialogue in Brussels, major issues still on the table (RTS)

Delegation Belgrade and Pristina, headed by Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa, met in Brussels for the second time in less than seven days in order to continue the dialogue on unresolved major issues. Two delegations have entered the building of the European External Action Service without speaking to reporters.

EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy Federica Mogherini met first with Pristina delegation, led by Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa.

Djuric: No vehicle insurance fees soon (RTS, Blic, KIM radio, TV Most, Tanjug)

The agreement on vehicle insurance signed in Brussels by representatives of Belgrade and Pristina will considerably facilitate the life of citizens in Kosovo, Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric said.

The agreement was signed late on Tuesday on the margins of the new round of the top-level dialogue which was resumed with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini as the mediator.

Djuric talks about "U.S. role in Kosovo talks" (RTS, Blic, B92)

"They do not sit in the room physically, but I think there were several separate conversations with representatives of several states today, including the Americans, and their role in the political sense is very important," he said.

The director of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija made this statement when state broadcaster RTS asked about "American participation in negotiations in Brussels".

A round of the Kosovo dialogue ended late on Tuesday with "progress made, but no agreements reached."