The US does not consider that the ongoing talks between Serbia and Kosovo have anything to do with Bosnia, the newly appointed US Ambassador to Sarajevo, Eric Nelson, said on Thursday in his first press conference after taking office, N1 reported.

“The US position is clear that there is no parallel between the negotiations taking place between Serbia and Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina,” he said.

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has called on the EU "to bring the Balkans into its orbit."

In an interview for Germany's Handelsblatt, quoted by Tanjug, Kurz "warned of the growing influence of Turkey and Saudi Arabia."

"In Sarajevo and Pristina, for example, women are paid to wear the full veil in public. We cannot look on and do nothing," the Austrian minister said.

Croatian media are reporting about a dinner organized in Sarajevo, stressing the tension at the table because of Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa. "Fierce quarrel in Sarajevo, Vucic attacks Kosovo prime minister in restaurant - Dinner on verge of incident: 'Why are you plundering Serb property?'," is the headline in the Jutarnji List daily.

Today's edition of daily Blic reports unofficially that Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić has banned all the ministers, state officials and civil servants to comment on developments in the region.

Vučić has brought this decision due to the events in Kosovo and the train, which was supposed to run on the line Belgrade - Mitrovica, in order to move towards calming the situation in the region, and not towards further escalation of the situation.

Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection today on the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared recalls that 20 years after the end of conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia and 15 years after the end of the conflict in Kosovo and Metohija there are no reliable information about the fate of nearly 11,000 people from the former Yugoslavia.