President Aleksandar Vucic has received Leonid Slutsky, the chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Russian Federation's State Duma.

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic, who is paying an official visit to Ghana announced that Serbia would open an embassy in this country this year, RTS reports.

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric said on Monday that President Aleksandar Vucic would meet with officials of Srpska Lista and heads of all Serbian institutions in Kosovo on Friday to discuss the next steps following the elections for mayors in four Serb-majority municipalities in northern Kosovo, TV N1 reports. “Those steps will be agreed by the newly-elected representatives of the Serb people and representatives of the institutions of the Republic of Serbia.

Milovan Drecun has announced the possibility of Serbia's counter-resolution, in response to Pristina's recent resolution accusing Serbia of "genocide." Drecun (member of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party), who chairs the National Assembly's Committee on Kosovo and Metohija, told Prva TV on Monday that he would discuss holding a special session dedicated to Albanian crimes in Kosovo with the Assembly's president. According to him, in case that session can be scheduled, people's deputies will use it to discuss the brutal ethnic cleansing that was and is being carried out by KLA (“Kosovo Lib

The Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) has confirmed its "unanimous and unequivocal" position from previous meetings regarding Kosovo and Metohija. And the Serbian Orthodox Church's position is that Kosovo and Metohija is an integral part of the Republic of Serbia's sovereign territory. Kosovo and Metohija, a statement issued on Friday said, is defined as such in the Serbian Constitution and in the UN Security Council Resolution 1244.

Parliamentary elections in Serbia will be held early next year, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday.

European Parliament Committee for Cooperation with Serbia Chairman Eduard Kukan believes that inclusion of Russia and the US in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue would end it. The EU and its foreign policy chief had to show much more firmness and determination in the enlargement process and, above all, in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina; the lack of leadership was particularly striking in the absence of a response to Pristina's unacceptable tariffs (on goods from central Serbia) Kukan told Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti daily. When the interviewer remarked the impression was that no

Serbian Assembly Speaker Maja Gojkovic called a special session of the parliament on May 27, and the report on Kosovo and Metohija would be discussed, Serbian media report. Gojkovic told journalists the invitation would be sent to the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to take part in the discussion and submit a report on Kosovo and Metohija, Vucic told RTS earlier he is ready to attend the session. The invitations would also go to the Prime Minster Ana Brnabic, Serbian Government members and Office for Kosovo Director Marko Djuric.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic commented on the adoption of Pristina’s resolution on genocide that Serbia allegedly committed in Kosovo saying it is yet another step backward.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has told public broadcaster RTS that the Kosovo authorities want to arrest 26 police officers from northern Kosovo, and another 15 people.