Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister and first deputy PM Ivica Dacic is cautious while commenting on EU Commissioner for Enlargement Johannes Hahn's statement about the possibility of "a land swap" as part of a future Belgrade-Pristina agreement.
Dacic told Belgrade-based daily Blic that Pristina - who last November introduced 100 percent tariffs on goods from central Serbia, deadlocking the Kosovo dialogue - should make the first move.
Serbian National Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun told RTS morning news edition the USA realized that a compromise is needed in order to change the status of the Serbian southern province. This offer, according to Drecun, would not be on the table for long.
Drecun added Serbia must undertake certain measures if Pristina does not revoke the tariffs it imposed. “We avoid all the time to resort to such measures that should correct Pristina’s attitude. Pristina should not be punished, but it should start acting rationally and open the way for the talks.”
The Serbian President and leader of the ruling SNS party told a party gathering in Belgrade that he would face a request to recognize a full independence of Kosovo, without divisions and "full and integral territory of an independent Kosovo," Serbian media reported.
He said he would speak with the presidents of China and Russia in Beijing and then head to Berlin for very difficult meetings with the leaders of France and Germany.
Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) warned today that even after 15 months since the murder of its leader Oliver Ivanovic “there are still no official details or facts” related to this crime, Danas daily reports.
SDP recalled in the statement that Kosovo Special Prosecutor recently stated the investigation into Ivanovic’s murder is still ongoing, while the Serbian Prosecution, as the SDP said, “did not even make a statement.”
President Aleksandar Vucic and Russian Ambassador Alexander Chepurin discussed on Tuesday the organization of Vucic's meeting with President Vladimir Putin.
Vucic and Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in Beijing during the Belt and Road forum. Vucic said today that he is honored to be meeting again with Putin.
He said that this would be their 16th meeting, the second this year, and that he will be pleased to talk with the president of Russia about bilateral cooperation in all areas, as well as the situation in the region, the president’s press office has announced.
Aleksandar Vucic has said that it is time for the Serbs to unite over all important issues and to understand that only together we can fight for our interests.
Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej who is paying a visit to Kosovo and Metohija said in Prizren on Sunday that “what we hear today about some sort of division, a compromise, is something that Serbian people would never be able to accept, in particular people from Kosovo and Metohija,” KoSSev portal reported.
Serbian National Assembly Speaker Maja Gojkovic said today that Kosovo issue would be discussed in the Parliament soon, Danas daily reports.
Gojkovic told TV Pink she agreed on this with the Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and President Aleksandar Vucic. Gojkovic added she expects that all MPs would take part in the discussion about important topics since the Parliament is a place for dialogue.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he is very worried because of everything in Kosovo and Metohija and the forthcoming meeting in Berlin, Tanjug news agency reported.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Sunday spoke with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Subotica, northern Serbia, Tanjug news agency reported. A joint session of the governments of the two countries would be held in this town on Monday.
Vucic and Orban concluded that relations between the two countries are at the highest level in their history, based on mutual understanding and trust, as a result of many years of cooperation. They expressed their sincere commitment to bilateral cooperation, as well as cooperation on issues of importance to the entire region.