Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reiterated on Thursday that "Serbia leads an independent policy, and citizens are the ones who decide."
Vucic added that in terms of Kosovo, "we need to have a realistic, rational and responsible approach, look to the future, and succeeding in making the most of what we can do."
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic late on Thursday showed Papua New Guinea's official note rescinding its recognition of Kosovo as an independent state.
This is the sixth country to have done so in the past several years.
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US President Donald Trump could visit Serbia at the earliest by the end of the year or early next spring, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said.
"The organization of this kind of visit is a serious business that takes place for a few months. Taking into account all that, Trump could come to Serbia either in the spring ir the end of the year," Dacic told Srpski Telegraf.
According to him, this visit would be of great importance to Belgrade.
The household of Perovic, the only Serbian household in the village of Medragovac near Podujevo, on the administrative line of the municipalities of Podujevo, Medvedja and Kursumlija was demolished and looted, while the Albanians from the neighbouring village, as reported to the Kosovo police on Sunday, interrupted the flow of water and electricity to the house of Radisav (77) and Milica Perovic (74), write Vecernje Novosti.
The latest six-month UNDP "Public Pulse" report was presented in Pristina, it showed that 95% of Serbs do not feel safe in Kosovo, reports RTV KiM.
In a survey conducted at the end of April, which covers the period from October last year to April this year, out of 210 Serb respondents, only 5% said they felt safe in the streets of Kosovo.
Serbia’s Prime Minister Ana Brnabic has said on Wednesday she believes that “if and when” Belgrade agrees on a compromise with Pristina, the people will stand by their President and Government.
In an interview with the Belgrade Vecernje Novosti daily on the occasion of the first year of her premiership, Brnabic said it would not be any cabinet reshuffle “as long as the battle for Kosovo is going on.”
Only a day after the Serb Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch said it was still not time for the head of the Roman Catholic Church to visit Serbia, the country Foreign Minister said Pope Francis should come.
Ivica Dacic told the Belgrade daily Politika on Wednesday that there would be no better Pope for Serbia and that he believed that the current head of the Roman Catholic Church should visit the country.
Serbian Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government Branko Ruzic says that Serbia is striving to reach a sustainable solution for Kosovo through dialogue, but that it does not have well-intentioned interlocutors on the other side, reports Serbian media.
He stresses that interlocutors on the other hand, representatives of Kosovo institutions, do not have enough understanding of the spirit of the time in which we are.
There is "a great chance" that the solution to the Kosovo problem lies in the meeting between Russian and US presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, Blic write today.
Belgrade-based daily Blic adds that "the two leaders should reach an agreement on that issue."
The daily claims, citing diplomatic sources, that this is "the plan of the Serbian leadership and President Aleksandar Vucic."
Members of the Montenegrin Parliament are discussing sending up to 40 members of the Army of Montenegro to the international "Resolute Support" mission in Afghanistan and two staff officers to KFOR in Kosovo, media reported.