Albanian Minister Pandeli Majko saying that "the border between Albania and Kosovo" will be opened starting on January 1 "lacks seriousness and responsibility."

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric reacted in this way on Thursday, adding that the statement of the Albanian minister in charge of the diaspora only served to further aggravate relations in the region.

Kosovo and Metohija Office Director Marko Djuric spoke on Monday morning for Prva TV about the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

"Most Western countries think that the issue of Kosovo is a rounded off story. We are talking both with the Russians and with the Americans and with the Chinese and with everyone who has the idea of ​​a compromise solution," said Djuric.

He added that there is still no solution for the issue of Kosovo, and that when one is in sight, "the citizens of Serbia will be informed about it."

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met in Belgrade with Serb political representatives from Kosovo and Metohija, Tanjug agency has learnt.

The talks between President Vucic and Srpska Lista representatives are ongoing for more than two hours. The meeting was not announced, and the topic of conversation is presumably development of events in and around Kosovo.

Serbian media earlier reported that Srpska Lista representatives were supposed to meet Director of Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric in Belgrade today.

Serbian opposition Free Citizens Movement (PSG) assessed that the authorities lead by Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) start threatening with the war unless they are allowed to do whatever they want, BETA news agency reported yesterday afternoon.

PSG made these remarks commenting on a statement Director of Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric made for RTS news edition saying there would be conflicts if agreement with Pristina is not reached.

Talks in Brussels were difficult, but we must be aware of the consequences if the agreement is not reached, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric told RTS. Djuric underlined that whatever we get it would be more than what we have now.

Belgrade-Pristina dialogue continues tomorrow, however given all what had happened since the last meeting in Brussels, including arrests of Serbs in Kosovo, recent incidents targeting returnees and harsh rhetoric of Haradinaj and Thaci on “red lines” and Kosovo army, I wonder how this round of negotiations would go, Director of Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric told Serbian tabloid Alo.

Former President of Serbia and leader of the Social-Democratic Party (SDS), Boris Tadic sent an invitation to the current President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, inviting him to a TV duel on Kosovo, Serbian media reported.

SDS said in a press statement, Tadic invites Vucic to a TV duel, not as representative of the opposition, but as a former President “who is being accused daily for a national treason and exposed to lies related to decisions and the consequences of such decisions during the time of his presidential mandate.”

Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric says to Belgrade based daily Politika that the Serbian Management team will fulfil its obligations regarding the proposal of the Statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) and that this document will be presented to the mixed committee in Brussels, Serbian media reports.

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, at an extraordinary press conference, said that the Kosovo police arrested the head of the Kosovo-Pomoravlje District Radovan Stojkovic, the director of the branch office of the National Employment Service Jovan Denic, and Nenad Stojanovic, a member of the Serbian Army living in Kosovo, in the municipality of Gnjilane and working in Vranje.

The statements of politicians in Pristina show that their nervousness is heightened, which means that something does not go the way they have planned and imagined that it has already been solved, and that someone in the international community begins to look at things differently than they hoped to be, said today the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric in a statement.