The Civic Vojvodina Coalition believes that the idea of "exchanging territory" and ethnic "demarcation" between Serbia and Kosovo is extremely dangerous and irrational and cannot be justified by any long-term solution for Kosovo, reports Belgrade based daily Danas.
Foreign Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic says that a solution is sought for the Kosovo issue and that a delimitation with the Albanians is just one idea, but that there are no other ideas.
He added that everyone now is opening the door to dialogue, but that there will certainly not be a discussion of two things - for Kosovo to be autonomous within Serbia and Serbia to recognize unilaterally declared Kosovo.
Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli said that he was against the idea of a correction of the Kosovo border and estimated that the solution was to establish a common economic zone, reports Serbian media.
Pacoli in Vienna, in his statement to Belgrade based news agency Tanjug, where he had a speech in the EU representation, said that there should not be divisions on the grounds of ethnicity, language, religion and anything else, but that we must live together and be committed to the economy.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday in Vienna that Serbia is committed to finding a compromise solution between Belgrade and Pristina to resolve the Kosovo issue, Serbian media reported.
"I am not sure that the other side wants it," Dacic said at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers, attended also by the heads of diplomatic missions of the candidate countries in Vienna.
The European Union Commissioner for Enlargement Johannes Hahn said on Friday that there was some progress in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, but that it still was not the time to speak about the details, the Beta news agency reported.
He added that any agreement which Belgrade and Pristina reached should contribute to peace and stability in the Western Balkans.
Problems can only be solved by leaders talking and the people of Kosovo are waiting for them to start political talks, a senior KFOR commander told the Beta news agency on Tuesday.
The Mayor of the Presevo municipality, a part of Serbia’s southern region of Presevo Valley, said late on Thursday that his fellow ethnic Albanians were against the exchanges of territories with Kosovo, “even if that means we will stay where we are now,” the Beta news agency reported.
Sqiprim Arifi said that Presevo Valley ethnic Albanians “want a strong Kosovo, and its north (with a Serb majority) even if the price we have to pay is to remain under (the control of) Serbia.”
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci in an interview for Belgrade based daily Danas says that as leaders they are responsible for the well-being of our children and future generations, when talking about Brussels based negotiation, and he thinks that President Vucic and himself were willing to prevent the past from blocking the future or endanger peace in the region in the next five or 50 years.
The European Commission reiterated on Tuesday that Belgrade and Pristina should define a lasting solution that would be sustainable, realistic and in line with the international law, the Beta news agency reported.
Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday that "the whole western world, with exceptions, considers Kosovo as a whole, sovereign, and indivisible territory," Serbian media reports today.
This was the Serbian president's reaction to German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying a day earlier she was "against changing borders in the Balkans."
"She already did delimitation between us - by separating the whole of Kosovo from Serbia," Vucic said, and the concept of "delimitation" with the Albanians that he has been advocating for recently.