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Serbia, Kosovo Spar Ahead of New Brussels Talks (Balkan Insight)

Ahead of Sunday's meeting between the Kosovo and Serbia Presidents, the two countries are still arguing over the agenda – while Germany has denied seeking Federica Mogherini's replacement as chief negotiator in the process.

Germany’s ambassador in Belgrade, Axel Dittmann, has denied that Berlin wants EU foreign police chief Federica Mogherini replaced as the organiser of EU-led negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo on normalisation of relations.

Belgrade – Pristina technical dialogue continues in Brussels (BETA, TV N1, RTS)

Ahead of the Sunday meeting between the presidents of Serbia and Kosovo, the chiefs of the Belgrade and Pristina negotiating teams will continue a technical part of the dialogue in Brussels on Friday, with pessimism looming over the event.

The EU facilitator in this part of the talks, expected to last two days, will be Angelina Eichhors, the director for Western Balkans in the European External Action Service (EEAS), the Belgrade media reported.

They also said the agenda would include all open issues related to the agreements reached so far.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia to RTS on revoking recognition of Kosovo (RTS)

Liberia has revoked recognition of Kosovo, in order to find a solution in a peace process, supported by the EU, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia Gbehzohngar Milton Findley told RTS. FM Findley added his country would support a solution reached in Belgrade-Pristina negotiations.

The FM Findley, speaking for RTS news edition also touched upon the reasons why Liberia has decided to revoke recognitions of Kosovo.

He added the Liberian Government is interested in peace process, in which the EU takes the initiative.

Dittmann: It is not true Germany wants to replace Mogherini (BETA, KIM Radio)

German Ambassador to Serbia, Axel Dittmann said his country supports the meeting of Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci on Sunday, since resolving relations with neighbours, in addition to reforms, modernization and the rule of law, are EU requests towards Serbia, BETA news agency reported.

Responding to a question on the possibility that a special negotiator Federica Mogherini is replaced by somebody else, Ambassador Dittmann responded it is not true.

Vucic: If those are Albanian attitudes, we should not waste time on continuing the dialogue (Danas)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said, on the statements given by Kosovo's representatives regarding the continuation of the dialogue, that he told the representatives of the European Union that, if those are Albanian attitudes then one should not waste the time on going to Brussels to continue the dialogue, reports Belgrade based daily Danas.

Djuric: We are going to Brussels to fight for Serbia (RTS)

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric point out to Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), on the withdrawal of the recognition of Kosovo's independence by Liberia, it is important that Serbia continues to fight for its positions.

"This is not the first country to withdraw the recognition of Kosovo's independence, it has been done by several countries in the series and there are more and more countries that recognize Serbia's position," says Marko Djuric.

Djuric on Thaci: Wrong calculations of some…. (Tanjug, RTS)

What Thaci is saying clearly indicates some think it would be sufficient to bring a delegation from Serbia and President Vucic to the table in Brussels and get it all, Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric told Tanjug news agency.

Djuric made these remarks as a reaction to Thaci’s statement that “border issue would be on the negotiation table,” on Sunday, adding that “it would simply not happen.”

Belgrade neither optimistic nor pessimistic ahead of talks (BETA, TV N1)

Aleksandar Vucic, the President of Serbia, has confirmed he will attend a meeting with his Kosovo’s counterpart Hashim Thaci on June 24 in Brussels but added he was not either pessimistic or optimistic regarding the outcome.

He said Belgrade delegation had no any pre-condition and that its only task was to protect the interests of its people.

Blic: Germany proposes special representative for dialogue (Blic, N1)

Germany has a proposal that a special representative of the EU leads the Belgrade-Pristina negotiations in Brussels instead of the head of EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini, Belgrade based daily Blic writes today.

In recent months, it has been reported about a new format of the dialogue, in which America would be included as a consultant, which would correspond to Pristina, but also Russia, which is the idea of Belgrade.

Vucic and Thaci to meet on Sunday – report (TV Prva, B92)

Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci should meet on Sunday, June 24, at a new round of dialogue in Brussels, Prva TV is reporting.

The European Foreign Service said that the two presidents should discuss above all reaching a comprehensive agreement on the normalization of relations, while the implementation of the already reached agreements will be the second place of the agenda.