Fisnik Halimi, an analyst from Pristina, said on Thursday no one from Washington ever said that US National Security Advisor John Bolton would visit Serbia or Kosovo, and added that America was entering its election phase and that Pristina – Belgrade problem should be solved until the beginning of 2020 at the latest, N1 reported.
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.
The Norwegian ambassador to Serbia Arne Sannes Bjørnstad said on Wednesday that Oslo would support any agreement between Serbia and Kosovo which would secure the respect of human rights and would be good for the regional stability, the Beta news agency reported.
Commenting on the media report that a deal between Belgrade and Pristina would be signed in June, the envoy said he doubted “the story was true.”
Ivica Dacic spoke for Belgrade based Prva TV on Wednesday - without confirming that he is one of those who know what the Serbian plan to solve the Kosovo problem is.
The foreign minister and first deputy PM also pointed out that he "could say in detail what that plan may look like."
Aleksandar Vucic says it's not clear to him how Hashim Thaci came up with stating that an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina would be signed in Washington.
Vucic told RTS late on Thursday that he "knows neither who came up with it, nor when Thaci was told this," and also wondered, "what are we supposed to sign."
As he pointed out, a Kosovo solution is not in sight, and added that he had "stressed this before."
Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric stated that the Belgrade-Pristina agreement is possible only if both sides are equally satisfied or dissatisfied with it.
Djuric stated this to Pink TV adding Belgrade wants an agreement with Pristina, but not in a way that would fulfil their national interests only, in particular “their dreams about independence.”
“Every agreement must take into consideration both the Serb and Albanian interests. We can agree if both sides are equaliy satisfied or dissatisfied,” Djuric said.
With a football in her hands, the Vice President of the European Parliament, Ulrike Lunacek, congratulated Kosovo on its admission into FIFA and UEFA, football's main international bodies, before going to say that now it's up to Kosovo if it wishes to secure visa liberalisation with the EU.