The Serbian President and leader of the ruling SNS party told a party gathering in Belgrade that he would face a request to recognize a full independence of Kosovo, without divisions and "full and integral territory of an independent Kosovo," Serbian media reported. He said he would speak with the presidents of China and Russia in Beijing and then head to Berlin for very difficult meetings with the leaders of France and Germany. "I will tell you right away: nothing good awaits us there and I expect nothing good.

President Aleksandar Vucic and Russian Ambassador Alexander Chepurin discussed on Tuesday the organization of Vucic's meeting with President Vladimir Putin. Vucic and Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in Beijing during the Belt and Road forum.

Mirjana Markovic, the the widow of former Serbian and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, died on Sunday of pneumonia, Tanjug has been able to confirm.

Russia's next ambassador to Serbia, Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko, will arrive to Belgrade in June, when the current ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin leaves his post.

Belgrade based daily Blic writes this, and adds, referring to its diplomatic sources, that Chepurin will continue his career in the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Serbia's new ambassador to Russia will be Miroslav Lazanski, a member of the Serbian National Assembly from the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), and a military commentator. The proposal to name Lazanski as the head of our embassy in Moscow was adopted at a government session last week, Vecernje Novosti daily reported. Lazanski will be replacing Slavenko Terzic, who's four-year term as ambassador expired back in 2017. Vecernje Novosti writes that this should be the first in a series of changes in Serbia's diplomatic network, considering that almost half of the 69 ambassadors posted ab

Sooner or later the EU must accept Serbia and other Western Balkans states as its members, since it is the only way to “preserve” these countries from the influence of other stakeholders, foremost Russia and China, diplomatic sources unofficially told Belgrade-based daily Danas. They noted “the enlargement is the only tool at the Union’s disposal when it comes to the Balkans,” although it remains completely uncertain if 2025 would be a year of Serbia’s and Montenegro’s accession to the EU. Commenting on the continuation of the enlargement process, the diplomats noted “it is difficult to pred

If there would be a unified stance of the international stakeholders, Pristina would by now revoke 100 percent tariffs it imposed on goods from central Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Center for Foreign Policy Director, Dragan Djukanovic told RTS. He also thinks there is a higher probability that due to the Kosovo issue extraordinary parliamentary elections in Serbia would take place in May next year, rather than in June this year. “It is expected that the dialogue process would intensify in the next month or two, and it would certainly impact on calling for the elections.

Serbian media reported on a statement of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying that “aggression of NATO member states on Yugoslavia in 1999 represents a black stain that shall always remain on the reputation of North-Atlantic Alliance.” The statement of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry can be seen at: http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3583602  

The central state ceremony of the 20^th anniversary of the NATO aggression and the Day of Remembrance of the victims was held in Nis, south Serbia, late on Sunday. The day marked 20 years since the western military alliance started its attacks on Serbia, that lasted 78 days.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said today that Serbia is aware of the mistakes it has made in the past but added that NATO bombing in 1999 was the fault of others, not the citizens of Serbia.