Commenting on Ramush Haradinaj's op-ed in the Washington Post, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said the text was written by someone else because "pen is not his weapon." The Kosovo prime minister wrote the article published in the US daily, where he presented a series of accusations against Serbia, and claimed that the Serbian President, with Russia's support, was offering Kosovo independence in exchange for a part of its territory. Asked how Haradinaj came up with that claim, Dacic, the Serbian Foreign Minister and first deputy PM said that it was "above all a great surprise th

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said that the Pristina authorities wanted to provoke "the fire of war" with their latest moves. Djuric told an unscheduled press conference on Wednesday in Belgrade that Serbia is calling on the EU and the entire international community to "make Pristina see reason without delay." "We call on them to bring (Pristina) back to respecting the law, respecting agreements, and stop them on the path of further escalating the problem.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told French Ambassador Frederic Mondoloni that Belgrade is prepared to continue the dialogue with Pristina as soon as Kosovo revokes the 100 percent tariffs on goods from Serbia, FoNet news agency reports. Vucic said that Pristina’s decisions which increase the risk of escalating the conflict and endanger the peace and stability of the region are unacceptable, adding that there must be rules and respect for the other side in every dialogue, a press release from the President’s Cabinet quoted him as saying. “Serbia did not break any agreement unlike Pristina

Serbs from Kosovo have had a noose put around their necks and that is why the mayors of the four (northern) municipalities resigned, Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric said. Djuric added that he will be able to be "fully satisfied only once Pristina's discriminatory measures have been rescinded." "Thaci and Haradinaj like to play those 'good cop, bad cop' games, but as our people would put it, it's all flour from the same sack.

Patients who visit the health institutions in Kosovo and Metohija would receive all necessary help and medicament and it would be like that in the following days, Serbian Minister of Health, Zoran Loncar said. However, he warned if the blockade continues there would be a serious problem, since health institutions in Kosovo and Metohija would not be able to function. He also added, the state of Serbia thinks about its citizens and would provide what is necessary in order to avoid humanitarian disaster. Loncar said when migrants’ crisis erupted, Serbia received many calls from different organ

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Bosnia and Hercegovina Minister of Foreign Affairs Igor Crnadak welcomed the statement of USA State Secretary Mike Pompeo, who urged Pristina authorities to lift taxes of the goods from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, RTS reports.  

Aleksandar Vucic says he has never been more worried because "surveys show that Serbian citizens support maintaining the status quo in Kosovo and Metohija." "I see that Serbs and citizens of Serbia do not want to solve the problems in Kosovo and Metohija, and it seems to me that we do not understand what we are dealing with," the President told RTS. "Surveys say citizens would like the status quo to remain, which is an impossible state.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, today expressed his concern over the restrictive impact on the distribution of Serbian print media in Kosovo following the introduction of recent trade measures, Serbian media report. He recalled the necessity to preserve all citizen’s right to access to information in their language “Access to newspapers, including Serbian print media, must be guaranteed for all citizens and local communities at all times,” Désir said, highlighting that “the media and access to information should not be a collateral victim of the current situati

Egypt is nearing to a decision to revoke recognition of Kosovo, and the final agreement on the matter could be made during the visit of the Egypt Foreign Affairs Minister to Belgrade, Vecernje Novosti daily reports today. According to the daily, diplomatic struggle of Serbia to make Cairo 11^th country in a row to revoke recognition of Kosovo is ongoing for months, and the strengthening of fraction in Egypt that believes the time has come to reconsider decision on Kosovo also goes in Serbia’s favor. Egypt abstained during recent voting on Pristina’s Interpol bid, and Novosti adds i

Mayors of the four northern municipalities in Kosovo and Metohija would resign today, Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said, according to the Serbian media. Meanwhile, deputy chair of Srpska Lista, Igor Simic refuted this information, media continue. “Serb representatives informed me that as of today municipal administrations in Pristina-Albanian system in the north will no longer function. Mayors of the four municipalities would submit resignations and leave the Pristina system.