2019 Western Balkans Summit within the Berlin Process is taking place in Poznan, Poland, B92 reports. The summit is attended by large number of participants, heads of governments, foreign ministers, EU representatives and members of the civil sector from the Western Balkans region. German Chancellor Merkel had paid great attention to the economic reforms conducted in the Western Balkans states. According to B92 in her keynote address, Chancellor Merkel had singled out and praised Serbia's economic progress.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic condemned the threats TV N1 Kosovo correspondent Zana Cimili received on social networks in Serbian, saying they were heinous and impermissible, TV N1 reported. Cimili received severe menace on social networks against her and her family’s physical integrity, BETA news agency reported late on Thursday. “The heinous threats to N1 journalist Zana Cimili are impermissible and deserve condemnation.

Serbia’s Public Prosecutors’ Office told N1 that the Special Prosecutors for Hi-Tech crime launched a probe into the threats to N1 Kosovo correspondent Zana Cimili.

Cimili received severe menace on social networks against her and her family’s physical integrity, the Beta news agency reported late on Thursday.

"I cannot speculate whether Florim Ejupi was involved in Oliver Ivanovic's murder, but I can say that he was selected and trained in some of CIA headquarters," Novosti daily said it got this information from a Swedish judge Christer Karphammar, who was in charge of the investigation on the bomb attack on the Nis Express bus near Podujevo, back in 2001. He added that this was known at times when Ejupi was arrested in 2001. "When on May 14, 2001, Ejupi mysteriously escaped from 'Bondsteel' camp, I've heard for the first time that he is CIA member.

Ban on Serbian officials to enter Kosovo is yet another in a series of unilateral acts by which Pristina wishes to escalate the crisis created by imposing 100 percent tariffs on Serbian goods, Chairman of the Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun told RTS. He added such acts would unfortunately continue. According to Drecun the aim of such acts is to provoke conflict with Serbian people or Serbian state and to use it as justification for unification of Kosovo and Albania.

Srpska Lista reacting to Pristina’s decision to ban entry to all Serbian officials in Kosovo and Metohija urged “the international community not to remain deaf and blind to the Pristina’s anti-Serbian attitude,” RTS reports. Srpska Lista added this decision “represents a continuation of the mad actions of Pristina against Serbian people,” and that “unfortunately as per rule there is no reaction by the international community and its representatives in Pristina.”

Analyst Cvjetin Milivojevic assessed today the request to return Kosovo issue to the United Nations would be the only appropriate reaction of Serbia to Pristina’s decision to ban entry to all Serbian officials, Danas daily reports. “Only this way Serbia could react as a serious state.

Pristina can not conduct its foreign policy independently because Kosovo and Metohija are integral part of Serbia, Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said, Tanjug news agency reported.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said the agreement on common foreign policy of Pristina and Tirana and joint embassies is not naive. She added it is scandalous that there is no reaction of the US or the EU regarding that, Tanjug news agency reported. “It is terrible that Pristina and Tirana have signed an agreement to have a common foreign policy now. This is not naive; this is rather serious.

Meeting of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic with US Congressman Eliot Engel would not have major significance in resolving the Kosovo issue, given that Engel is an active Albanian lobbyist in Washington, diplomats told Danas daily. Danas daily interlocutors went on saying that this meeting could even be “counterproductive” for Serbia’s position in continuation of negotiations on Kosovo because Engel “strongly opposes the policy of US President Donald Trump.” “Serbian authorities do not hide expectations that Trump and his administration would play a constructive role in the final phase of