The expected agreement on Kosovo is about everyday things like the free movement of people, goods and capital and the status issue is something else, Serbian opposition Democratic Party (DS) leader Zoran Lutovac told TV N1 on Monday.

The status issue can be resolved only once the right conditions are in place, he said. “This is a democracy issue, once we achieve certain standards,” he added, speaking for the TV N1 morning show.

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said he is not certain if the information that USA ceased communication with the Kosovo minister of defense is accurate, adding he heard it from the media, but reminded that the USA administration does not see Kosovo any longer as “its child,” and attempts to be balanced, RTS reported.

“I think this is good. Generally, Kosovo foreign and internal politics are on major defensive. They are no longer “a child” of the West, but rather a problem. They are an obstacle for peaceful solution in Kosovo,” Dacic told journalists.

Serb National Council in Montenegro called upon Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic and parliamentary party Democratic Montenegro (DCG) to express their stances on an initiative calling for annulling decision by the Montenegrin Government to recognize Kosovo, Novosti daily reported.

The Serb National Council initiated a petition for holding a referendum on revoking this decision, following the statement of Montenegrin Government official that decision to recognize Kosovo was forced, and contrary to the will of 85 percent of Montenegro citizens.

There is no solution to the Kosovo issue without agreement with Serbia, Director of Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric told TV Pink. He added Serbia wishes compromise solution, but would not accept any humiliating proposals.

Djuric said that yesterday’s decision of the Serbian delegation to leave the conference on EU common foreign and security policy in Vienna, because of the way Kosovo was presented, shows that nothing is resolved.

European Parliament Foreign Relations Committee adopted draft resolution on progress of Western Balkans partners in the EU reforms, Tanjug news agency reports.

Russia will support every solution to the Kosovo issue, that is supported by the Serbian people and is in line with the Constitution of Serbia and UN SC Resolution 1244, BETA news agency reports. This was said during the meeting between the Serbian Minister for Innovations and Technical Development Nenad Popovic and Chairperson of the Russian Federation Committee for Foreign Policy, Konstantin Kosachov.

According to the Popovic Ministry’s statement, Kosachov said Serbian people in Kosovo can count on Russian support.

Kosovo’s associate membership in the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) does not mean it has been recognized as a state, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said yesterday, TV N1 reports.

Speaking at the OIF summit of heads of state and government in the Armenian capital Yerevan, Dacic said that there are 13 permanent members of the organization which have not recognized Kosovo. A Foreign Ministry press release said that those countries submitted a declaration to the summit stating that their stand on Kosovo had not changed.

Alexander Lukashevich named the protection of rights and interests of non-Albanian minorities among key tasks of the mission and its mandate

VIENNA, October 12. /TASS/. The Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE)’s Mission in Kosovo should immediately respond to threats and crimes against this region's Serbian population, Russia’s OSCE envoy has said.

A delegation of the Serbian Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs on Thursday walked out of a conference held in Vienna.

The inter-parliamentary conference was dedicated to EU's common foreign and security policy.

The Serbian delegation, headed by committee chairman Zarko Obradovic, left the conference alongside the Spanish parliamentary delegation because of the way Kosovo was represented at the event.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said today in Kraljevo he is always ready to talk about all compromise solutions and to offer it to the Serbian people. However, the solution to the Kosovo and Metohija issue is not on the sight, B92 reports.

Asked by journalists, what happened since his last visit to Kraljevo when he announced a solution to the Kosovo issue would be presented, and then recently he stated that his Kosovo politics faced a defeat, Vucic responded that what he thought could be a solution faced general disagreement in Serbia.