Aleksandar Vucic says he is "looking forward to each encounter at the EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia."
But, the president continued on Tuesday, he "doesn't expect particularly good news for our country."
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke over the phone with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Tanjug news agency reported.
President Vucic in details informed President Erdogan about incidents and attacks Pristina authorities carried out in the north of Kosovo and presented all the facts that preceded it, Tanjug further reported.
PASULJANSKE LIVADE, Serbia (Reuters) - Under the keen eye of President Aleksandar Vucic and foreign diplomats, Serbia’s military flexed its muscles on Thursday, firing live ordnance in a mock attack on insurgent positions at a training ground east of Belgrade.
The training drill, dubbed Synergy 2018, came three days after Kosovo police used force to scatter Serb protesters in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica in Kosovo’s restive North and briefly detained a Serbian government official.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday that "top Pristina officials" ordered Monday's "beating of (Marko) Djuric."
Speaking at a military range, where he attended an exercise, Vucic noted that he now "doesn't know when and how to negotiate with Pristina officials, who he knows ordered the arrest of the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metojiha."
According to political analyst Dusan Janjic, arrest of Marko Djuric was security-political trigger that sped up existing preparations for negotiations in a new format, Tanjug news agency reported.
He expects this new format would include two observers, one from the USA and the other from Germany. He also added that new format in fact means more intensive talks, prepared by political negotiators, and to be “completed by presidents in several meetings.”
“I still invite Aleksandar Vucic to accept a TV duel on public service RTS and enable citizens to hear a complete truth on the genesis of creation and resolution of the Kosovo issue,” former President of Serbia Boris Tadic said in a written statement, Danas daily reported.
Tadic also said he does not invite Aleksandar Vucic to a TV duel as representative of the opposition, but as a former President of Serbia.
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj says there will be "no partition of Kosovo or exchange of territories."
Haradinaj wrote this on Facebook on Wednesday, adding that the Serb List - who decided to leave his government and form the Community of Serb Municipalities on their own unless Pristina does in by April 20 - should "return to the table and discuss common topics to the benefit of all citizens."
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke on Wednesday for Prva TV about his phone call earlier in the afternoon with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Vucic stressed that the conversation was "long and rich in content."
"If I may say - and I've met with him many times - today in his words I felt probably the highest degree of support, as well as in (his) reactions, because I know him well," the president said, adding that he asked Putin "what his advice was."
“Within the framework of the internal dialogue on Kosovo, initiated by the President of Serbia, five more round tables will be held” Deputy Head of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Dusan Kozarev told Beta news agency today.
Kozarev added that the 26th roundtable organized by the Cultural Education Council took place yesterday.
Serbian Prosecution for Organized Crime undertook all necessary actions within its authority in regards to the arrest of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director, Marko Djuric, Tanjug news agency reported.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said following the National Security Council session on Monday that several criminal offenses were committed during Djuric’s arrest and that all who took part in it, including two persons of Serb nationality wearing uniforms, would be held responsible before the Serbian judiciary, Serbian media reported.