Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said yesterday there are three fundamental obstacles in the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue: Kosovo authorities' “permanent” provocations, their refusal to implement Brussels agreements and talks about abolishing border with Albania, Beta news agency reported.

She said that she mentioned those issues at the Geneva gathering on the Western Balkans organized by the World Economic Forum earlier in the day.

Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said that the demarcation with Kosovo is the least painful suggestion and that it includes that in addition to the northern part, all other areas populated by the Serbs which could be territorially linked to central Serbia remain parts of the country, the Beta news agency reported on Tuesday.

Talk of "border correction" by Serbia's president Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo's Hashim Thaci is a distraction from what is really going on behind the scenes - blackmail of the EU for political and personal reasons.

The border idea - for Pristina to give north Kosovo (an ethnic Serb enclave) to Belgrade, in return for the Presevo Valley (an Albanian enclave in Serbia) - was first floated by Vucic (although in different terms) last year.

See at: https://euobserver.com/foreign/143000

After the denial of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic yesterday from Moscow on the alleged lobbying activities of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on behalf of Serbia for ethnic delimitation between Serbia and Kosovo, the denials came from Blair’s Institute for Global Change.

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin is definitely coming to Serbia, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told journalists in Moscow.

After his talks with the head of the Russian state on Tuesday, Vucic said that Putin had asked his aides to set a date for his visit to Serbia.

This means that Putin will definitely visit Serbia, Vucic said.

"If Putin had just said, 'I'll come', that would not mean that the visit would necessarily be realized," Vucic explained.

"We're far from solution"

"We got everything we looked for," President Aleksandar Vucic said after his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.

Vucic stressed that they agreed on "every topic of discussion."

"We got everything that we looked for. We agreed on everything," he told TASS, adding that he "could not reveal the details."

Serbian Minister without portfolio Nenad Popovic said on Tuesday that the time is right to take the Kosovo issue back to the United Nations after the European Union failed in its moderation efforts, Serbian media reported.

“The EU has failed as moderator in the negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina and now is the right moment to return the Kosovo issue back where it belongs – the UN,” Popovic said in Moscow. He is part of the delegation that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has brought with him to the Russian capital.

The UN Security Council will in November discuss UN secretary-general's reports about Kosovo, writes Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti.

According to the newspaper, China returned the reports to the agenda of the Security Council, that will take over the body's presiding in November.
The article also specifies that two reports on Kosovo filed by UN chief António Guterres will be considered - covering the period from April 16 to July 15, and another from mid-July to mid-October.

The US Ambassador in Belgrade, Kyle Scott said today there are no guarantees Washington would accept just any solution reached by Belgrade and Pristina, TV N1 reports.

Ambassador Scott noted the American administration is open to every solution that the two sides reach but added that this does not guarantee support for the solution from Washington “because we don’t know what we’re talking about”.

“A local solution is the best solution. Only a solution by the Serbian and Kosovo side will be lasting and can be implemented,” Ambassador Scott said.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic denied claims that she never mentioned UN Security Council Resolution 1244 on Kosovo at the UN General Assembly session, TV N1 reported