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Albanian media made up "dual sovereignty" story – president Vucic (B92, Tanjug)

President Aleksandar Vucic says Serbia has been offered nothing resembling "dual sovereignty" over the north of Kosovo.

Therefore, nothing of the kind will happen in Berlin, Vucic told a news conference on Thursday. The meeting will take place at the end of April, dedicated to Kosovo and organized by Germany and France.

"Shared sovereignty is always something that is a problematic legal category, while the so-called dual sovereignty - I don't know what that means. But nobody told me that, nobody offered us that, and something like that will not happen in Berlin," he said.

Vecernje Novosti: Elections in Serbia to be called on 9th May, voting in June?

Another option "in the game" is to go to the polls on 30th June, and in this case the elections would be called on 16th May, writes today Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti.

If Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) goes with a decision to call the extraordinary parliamentary elections, most likely they will be called on May 9th, and the voting will take place on June 23rd, according to Vecernje Novosti.

Dacic: Vucic will be pressured in Berlin, meeting organized without knowledge of EU (TV Pink, Tanjug, B92)

President Aleksandar Vucic would face pressure in Berlin over Kosovo and Metohija, therefore the meetings he would have in Beijing with Chinese and Russian presidents are very important, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic told TV Pink.

Dacic noted he does not expect pressure related to making some new framework of the content of the agreement with Pristina, but “there would certainly be the culmination of pressure on Serbia to continue the dialogue regardless of Pristina tariffs.”

The abolition of tariff is ''a minimum of the minimum'' for continuation of talks with Pristina, Serbian PM Brnabic says (Serbian media)

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said in Belgrade yesterday that the abolition of Kosovo's tariffs on goods from Serbia was “a minimum of the minimum" for continuing talks with Pristina.

She added that she did not expect much from the upcoming meeting in Berlin.

Fatherland Movement on negotiation platform with Kosovo, Vucic’s policy (KoSSev)

Serb National Fatherland Movement from Kosovo and Metohija urged today President Aleksandar Vucic and the Serbian authorities to return decision-making on the status of Kosovo “within the UN SC auspices,” and involve the Russian Federation in it “that for the last two decades in the UN safeguarded the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Republic of Serbia within the UN Resolution 1244,” KoSSev portal reported.

Serbian president Vucic says no chance for agreement on Kosovo (Blic, N1)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Belgrade based daily Blic that he believes that there is no chance of reaching a Belgrade-Pristina agreement.

According to Vucic, everyone in Serbia, the region, Europe and the world “have buried any chance for any kind of agreement” and added that Serbia had shown the will to compromise.

Alliance for Serbia: Marko Djuric to resign over lynch against Rada Trajkovic (Danas)

Alliance for Serbia (SzS) has condemned today “a lynch and drawing a target on Rada Trajkovic” conducted, as they said in the press statement, “by the regime tabloid Alo and Marko Djuric,” Danas daily reported.

According to the Alliance for Serbia, the tabloid Alo and Djuric “utter monstrous lies on the involvement of Rada Trajkovic in the murder investigation of Oliver Ivanovic, run by the Kosovo prosecution.”

Sputnik: Lavrov on the idea of double sovereignty in Kosovo

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Sputnik portal (Serbian language) that the problem of Kosovo, instead of imposing an ultimatum, can be solved only by bringing positions closer and by consensus.

On Sputnik's question about the idea of dual sovereignty in Kosovo, reported by some media in Pristina, Lavrov replied that the West, when it recognized the illegally declared independence of Kosovo, did not mention dual sovereignty.

Ponos: Vucic to submit report on Kosovo, opposition to decide on discussion in Parliament after it (Danas, TV N1, KoSSev)

Former Serbian Army Chief-of-Staff and now deputy leader of the opposition Peoples’ Party Zdravko Ponos said the opposition would be ready to consider the proposal of the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to hold discussion on Kosovo and Metohija in the Parliament, if Vucic would beforehand submit a report on what he has been doing so far in regard to Kosovo and present a platform on the forthcoming negotiations with Kosovo Albanians, Danas daily reported.