US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott told Radio Television Serbia (RTS) that the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina should enter a more intensive phase and expresses the hope that the compromise will be reached "perhaps even this year".

Scott told RTS that neither Belgrade nor Pristina will get everything they want, but that it is important that both sides come to a compromise.

Ivica Dacic says the demands to include "new players" in the Kosovo dialogue now - only to strengthen Pristina's position - are completely unreasonable.

The foreign minister of Serbia at the same time stressed that pressure will not accelerate reaching a compromise.
"The United States is already very much well informed and indirectly involved in the whole process," Dacic told the daily Vecernje Novosti, commenting on the call of Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to engage the United States in the dialogue.

"The leadership in Belgrade will bear terrible pressure in the upcoming weeks, which Belgrade itself may have partially induced," said journalist Milivoje Mihajlovic.

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj confirmed that the transcript of the meeting of Kosovo Minister Ivan Todosijevic with the representatives of the Working Group for the drafting of the Statute of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) was returned to the Ministry of Administration and Local Self-Government of Kosovo because the document sent to the government was written in Cyrillic.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is likely to meet again in Brussels in two weeks with Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, reported yesterday Belgrade based daily Blic.

The daily stated that the information was confirmed in the cabinet of President Vucic.

The continuation of the dialogue in such a short time could mean a practical intensification of the process, about what talked and Mogherini after the meeting in Brussels on Sunday, the daily noted.

Dacic believes that still a final solution is far and a call on a referendum in Serbia, and that solutions must be sought, reports Vecernje Novosti.

After a meeting in Brussels of the Serbian and Pristina delegations with Federica Mogherini, they all agree that there are possibilities regarding the final solution regarding Kosovo, Dacic says, adding that it was also noted that both sides should make additional efforts to reach solutions, reports the daily.

According to Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti, the task of EEAS Director Angelina Eichhorst will be to accelerate and intensify talks between representatives of Serbian authorities and provisional institutions in Kosovo, as well as the implementation of the agreements reached.

The Director of the Department for Western Europe, the Western Balkans and Turkey in the EU Foreign Service will be the key mediator in the next phase of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, reports the daily in today's edition.

Permanent peace in Kosovo is in Serbs’ interest, Srpska Lista official Dalibor Jevtic told the media, adding he expects there would be talks about the legal framework of the Association/Community of Serb-Majority Municipalities at the forthcoming meetings between Belgrade and Pristina officials.

“What contributes to the peace is encouraging to everybody, in particular to the Serbs living south of the Ibar River, Jevtic told Serbian media, commenting on yesterday’s meeting between Vucic and Thaci in Brussels.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the solution between Serbia and Kosovo must be rational, and that all problems be resolved in peace.

Vucic said that after talks in Brussels with Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.

He said that several things had been achieved on Sunday, and that they are very important for Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija.

Aleksandar Vucic says the dialogue with Pristina on Sunday will be "difficult" - but that Belgrade will "defend its position."

Vucic added that Belgrade will strive for a compromise.

It will be, as he says, "yet another opportunity for our position to be heard, yet another opportunity to fight for our country and our people, while respecting the other side and with the desire to reach a solution."