Federica Mogherini says she is still convinced that the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue could go on despite the current difficulties.

Pristina's measures in Kosovo and Metohija have brought the Serbs there to the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic has said. "The example of what is happening in KiM (Kosovo and Metohija) is a warning to us about how harmful the consequences of trade and other blockades can be.

Serbia would make decisions on new Pristina’s measures only when and if they are undertaken, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said, Tanjug news agency reported. Vucic added Pristina plans three new measures and none of them in the long-term is good, even for Ramush Haradinaj who is announcing them. Vucic, however, did not specify what concrete measures could be.

Moscow expects from Brussels to make Pristina fulfill its obligations deriving from the Brussels agreement and establish Community of Serb Municipalities, as well as not to patronize it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, Tanjug news agency reported. Russian Minister is participating in the 25^th OSCE Ministerial Council in Milan, Italy. “It is inadmissible participation of Kosovo at OSCE meetings as a sate, overlooking Pristina’s acts, violation of UN SC Resolution 1244.

Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti writes today that since the EU has lost credibility as a mediator in Belgrade-Pristina talks, chances are growing for Kosovo to get back to the UN. Moscow and Beijing could negotiate about that with Washington in the coming days. Novosti’s interlocutors further claim that in addition to having UN SC session on the crisis in Kosovo, Belgrade should alert all its allies across the world and present to them that the EU, as a mediator in dialogue with Pristina, is either not able to keep things under control or does not want so.

Serbian Chamber of Commerce announced it has sent a letter to the highest officials of European Union, European Commission, European Parliament and European Council, calling on them to influence Pristina authorities and help in revoking decision on introduction of 100 percent taxes on goods from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, BETA news agency reports. This decision, systematically breaches CEFTA agreement, jeopardizes economic integration of the region and the success of the Berlin Process, and if the decision remains in force companies from Serbia with capital from EU member states would

Kosovo Foreign Affairs Minister Behgjet Pacolli said he “personally does not see chances for political solution” of the Kosovo issue, and believes in “economic solution for what both sides have interests, Insajder portal reports. According to the Serbian media, Pacolli proposes north of Kosovo to become a large economic zone, part of it would belong to Serbia, part to Kosovo, and someone else would manage that economic zone. “I keep saying this since 2007. This is where I see solution.

Our focus is on schools and education, and not on the army and weapons, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said, adding neither yesterday, nor ever before she was calling for war, B92 reports. Brnabic told this to the journalists in Belgrade, adding she regrets the way how certain international media interpreted her yesterday’s statement in a sense that Serbia is threatening with something. “In my speech, where I urged for peace and reason ten times, they took out half of the sentence.

Commenting on the announced formation of an army in Kosovo, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday that she hoped Serbia would not have to use its army. But, Brnabic added - addressing journalists during a news conference at the seat of the Serbian Government in Belgrade - "that is one of the options." "I hope that we will never have to use our army, but at the moment it is one of the options on the table, because we cannot watch a new ethnic cleansing and new storms (an apparent reference to

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic warned on Tuesday that there was a growing danger of further radicalization in Kosovo and Metohija, Serbian Government announced. During the meeting with German Bundestag and Free Democrats' Party member Renata Alt, Brnabic said this danger was due to a series of moves that Pristina has taken over the past month. Brnabic pointed out to the decisions of Pristina, firstly the one made on 6 November, introducing 10% tax on all products from central Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, followed by the decision of November 21 on additional tax increase by 100 percent, and the