Former Serbian President Boris Tadic said on Monday that the Brussels Agreement must undergo review but warned that this is “extremely dangerous,” BETA news agency reports.
Jan Hecker, the most important foreign policy adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkle and her adviser for the Balkans Matthias Luttenberg would visit Belgrade this evening, daily Blic reports.
According to Blic they would visit Belgrade after their visit to Pristina and would meet Serbian President Vucic either this evening or tomorrow, in an attempt to ease tensions between Belgrade and Pristina.
“This meeting is of decisive importance when we speak about the future of the dialogue and relations between the two sides,” diplomatic sources told Blic.
The announcements of the conflicts in Kosovo are „irresponsible, shameless and a staged farce“ and nothing is further from the reality than the claims that the negotiations have failed, Leader of Peoples’ Party and one of the leaders of the Alliance for Serbia, Vuk Jeremic stated, KoSSev portal reports.
“Serbia must know that the ultimatums the Albanians sent last night with the help of their western mentors, Serbia’s reply is ‘no, you will not get it! Serbia is the land of honorable, honest and responsible people who are guarding their country and their people!’“ Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic told gathered citizens in Sremska Mitrovica on Friday, which he visited as part of “Future of Serbia” campaign, KoSSev portal reports.
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Prva TV on Friday Serbia has been "driven into a corner and is in a difficult position." He commented on the moves from Pristina, and talked about a meeting with the US State Department official David Hale.
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic announced that on Sunday, she, President Aleksandar Vucic and Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic would meet Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej to discuss about the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, Tanjug news agency reported.
“On Sunday at 7.30 we would meet with the Patriarch Irinej and Serbian Orthodox Church Synod to discuss about the situation in Kosovo and Metohija since the dialogue is stopped,” Brnabic told journalists following the session of the Serbian Council for National Security this morning.
The Pristina platform (for the dialogue with Belgrade) is the third and final blow to the dialogue, PM Ana Brnabic told reporters on Friday in Belgrade. She spoke after a meeting of the Council for National Security. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic convened the meeting after the adoption of this platform.
The prime minister added that this document is contrary to common sense, and that the reaction of Serbia will, "as always, be measured."
Dusan Janjic from Forum for Interethnic Relations said yesterday that Pristina by adopting the platform and establishing a political team is a step ahead of Belgrade, while Serbian authorities should ask themselves why they have not made such a document, Danas daily reports.
"Moscow denies the reporting of Kosovo media that Russia, France and the United States have allegedly agreed on recognizing Kosovo." This has been stated at a press briefing held by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Maria Zahkarova.
Serbian-Russian bilateral trade volume has been on a rise over the past several years and the goal is to reach the 2008 level of 4 billion dollars. Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic said this Thursday, adding that the 2018 trade volume had been 3.6 billion dollars - 500 million more than in 2017, Tanjug is reporting.