Chairperson of Srpska Lista (SL) Goran Rakic told Serbian media that SL representatives met with the President Vucic and spoke about political and security situation in Kosovo. Rakic said he was pleased to hear that the solution for Kosovo would be reached by compromise and in a consultation with the Serb people living in Kosovo and Metohija.

He also underlined they conveyed the message of Serbs from Kosovo support to the President Vucic. “We had enough politics from previous times when Serbs did not have interlocutor in Belgrade,” Rakic said.

Aleksandar Vucic should visit Kosovo and Metohija in early September and address the Serbs there, writes the daily Blic.

This has been agreed during a meeting held between the Serbian president and representatives of Serbs from southern, northern, and central parts of the province, held in Belgrade on Wednesday.

According to the newspaper, one of the most important conclusions of the meeting is that any proposal, position or decision that Belgrade adopts will first be presented to the representatives of Serbs from the province, while their stance will be heard.

As a Bishop of Raška and Prizren and an Archpastor of the Orthodox Christians in the regions of Kosovo, Metohija and Raška, with tremendous pastoral and moral responsibility I feel the need to express my grave concern regarding a series of political statements on Kosovo-Metohija in the recent time which fill our hearts with increasing uncertainty and disquiet.

Serbia is selling, not gifting arms, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday. Touring a bypass construction site near Belgrade, Vucic also stressed he was proud of the results achieved by the country's defense industry.

Serbia has a state-owned company, Jugoimport SDPR, he recalled, that should be profitable and sell weapons.

Programme adopted by the Alliance for Serbia at the recent gathering on the Zlatibor Mountain contains 30 topics and Danas daily reported it had an insight into one of the working versions of this paper.

Serbia said it would ask Montenegro to hand over a former Serbian fighter accused of war crimes in Kosovo in 1999 and arrested in the Adriatic republic last week.

Serbia’s justice ministry told BIRN on Tuesday it would ask neighbouring Montenegro to extradite Predrag Vukovic, a Yugoslav Army veteran accused of involvement in the massacre of 46 ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo in 1999.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic opined today the only goal of Pristina is to take over the northern Kosovo, that the Association/Community of Serb-Majority Municipalities (ZSO) does not interest them, while the deadline for ZSO expires on August 4, but it is clear, as he said in the past, nothing would come of that, TV Most reported.

President Vucic made these remarks in Ostruznica where he was visiting the construction works on a bypass road in the vicinity of Belgrade.

Serbia’s Trade Minister Rasim Ljajic denied yesterday Kosovo official's accusations that Belgrade had been “selling or donating” weapons to some countries to withdraw recognitions of Kosovo, saying “we don’t sell the arms for peanuts, let alone giving it as a gift.”

Serbian Foreign Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic said that "many don't like the success of our diplomacy." They also do not like that a number of countries are reexamining their position on Kosovo, Dacic told the daily Vecernje Novosti.

He added that Serbia "will not give up."

"We are asked to stop lobbying for withdrawals of recognitions (of Kosovo), while at the same time Pristina and its mentors would continue to lobby for new recognitions. That won't happen," Dacic told the newspaper.

Professor of the Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Florian Bieber assessed that Serbia-Kosovo agreement must lead toward abolishment of the UN SC Resolution 1244, Beta news agency is reporting.

According to Bieber the agreement should lead toward a new UN SC resolution that would either replace or abolish Resolution 1244, thus providing Kosovo to become a UN member. However, British journalist and analyst Tim Judah thinks that the text of the agreement does not have to be in contradiction with the Resolution 1244.