German Ambassador to Belgrade Thomas Schieb told Serbian Trade and Telecommunications Minister Rasim Ljajic his country pressured Pristina to urgently lift the 100 percent import tariffs on goods from Serbia, FoNet news agency reported. Schieb added the taxes should be abolished to normalize the trade cooperation in the region and enable the resumption of the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue on normalization of relations, facilitated by the European Union. According to the statement of Ljajic’s ministry the two officials also discussed the improvement of overall economic relations between German

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic will visit Brussels on Wednesday, the Serbian Government has announced.

A bi-partisan US Congress delegation has demanded the arrest of former senior Serbian police officer Goran Radosavljevic aka Guri over the killing of three Kosovo Albanian US citizens in 1999, Belgrade daily Blic said on Monday.

The delegation met with President Aleksandar Vucic during last week’s security conference in Munich to demand Radosavljevic’s arrest and extradition.

Diplomat Zoran Milivojevic commenting on letters/congratulations that the USA President Donald Trump has sent to Belgrade and Pristina, said it points out there is no solution to the Kosovo issue without Serbia, Tanjug news agency reported. He also added, support of Washington to Kosovo independence is indisputable. However, according to Milivojevic, the letter Trump sent to Pristina indirectly brings into questions sovereignty and territorial integrity of Kosovo.

Great powers always have plan B, and unless the Belgrade and Pristina agreements come to an end, all leads towards the outbreak of localized armed conflicts in Kosovo, assesses Dusan Janjic from the Forum for Ethnic Relations, visiting regional broadcaster TV N1.

Janjic assesses that the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina is in a deadlock, and the position means that you can no longer take any move and that you must play something new, "what the Americans would say, something creative."

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said it was very important to him that everyone in Munich Security Conference was aware of how difficult the situation with Kosovo is, BETA news agency reports. Speaking after the participation in the Security Conference which gathered heads of states, governments, international organizations and other high-ranking representatives from all parts of the world, Vucic said it was important that the leading world’s politicians heard in Munich what was the truth, Serbia’s stance, counter-arguments and response to what "Pristina usually tells its foreign partners.

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said, in relation to the 11^th anniversary since the declaration of independence in Kosovo, that “Kosovo Albanians have nothing to rejoice about,” BETA news agency reported.

Marko Djuric said on Friday that the document adopted by Pristina was not a platform for the dialogue with Belgrade, but against it. The head of the Serbian Office for Kosovo and Metohija added that the document's goal was to "collapse the dialogue." "What they have adopted has nothing to do with intent to reach an agreement.

Srpska Lista assessed that Pristina’s platform on dialogue aims to block it, Radio kontakt plus reports. Srpska Lista added that platform Kosovo Albanians presented as a basis for “dialogue” and “compromise” is yet another act, following anti-civilizational tariffs, forming an army and Trepca statute, aiming to break the dialogue down and to fully block it. They also noted that such platform causes concern among the Serbian population in Kosovo and Metohija, since the clear intent of Pristina is noticeable behind it, and it is, in lack of rational and responsible dialogue on normalization, t

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said on Thursday that membership in the European Union and regional stability are Serbia’s key foreign policy priorities, TV N1 reports. Speaking to students at the 8th class of High Security and Defense Studies, Dacic said that Kosovo is an issue of the highest national interest and the greatest political and security challenge, adding that Serbia will remain committed to the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and compromise as the only way to reach a viable solution. Membership in the EU is a strategic interest because the region’s integration into Euro