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Serbian president asks China for help (B92, Tanjug)

Aleksandar Vucic informed Chinese Ambassador Li Manchang about "the danger of the announced formation of the army of the so-called Kosovo on December 14."

Vucic asked Li to, as a friend of Serbia, "regularly report to the Chinese leadership on the development of the situation in Kosovo and Metohija," the Serbian president's cabinet said in a press release on Tuesday.

Serbia turns to China for help; "It's never been worse" (Tanjug, B92)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic have asked China's Ambassador in Belgrade, Li Manchang to inform the Chinese leadership that Serbia “has never been in a more difficult situation.”

Ambassador Li responded to this by saying he will notify the President of China about the issue in the course of the day.

KFOR: We knew something yesterday; Serbian media: Mitrovica North citizens disturbed (Tanjug, B92, TV Prva, Kontakt plus radio)

Vincenzo Grasso, KFOR spokesman, told TV Prva that KFOR was informed that four people were arrested in Kosovo, but that there is no accurate information about where they are.

"The Kosovo police arrested several people in connection with the murder of Oliver Ivanovic. We were informed that four people were arrested and I'm not sure where they are right now, but I'm sure that they are in the police and would be brought to the justice," Grasso told TV Prva.

Army, security chiefs, president meet after Rosu incursion (Tanjug, TV Prva, B92)

An unscheduled closed session of the Serbian Government was held in Belgrade on Friday morning due to the incursion of a Kosovo police unit into the north of Kosovo, reports Serbian media.

President Aleksandar Vucic has had extraordinary meetings with the army and police chiefs this morning. Other security services, as well as commanders of special military and police units, also took part in these meetings.

Jeremic: Flag of Kosovo in Notre-Dame do not affect them; diplomatic and media 'blitzkrieg' in 2019 (Danas)

National People's Party leader Vuk Jeremic said that Kosovo flag in Notre-Dame do not 'affect too much' the state top of Serbia, reports Belgrade based daily Danas.

He also said that representative of Kosovo would not have been invited to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, if the "performance" of Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci was not foreseen for this occasion.

EU: Belgrade and Pristina should both refrain (B92)

Federica Mogherini on Thursday in Brussels hosted a meeting of the High Level Dialogue with the President Thaci of Kosovo and President Vucic of Serbia. This has been announced in a press release posed on the EEAS wesbite.

It added that "the European Union expects Serbia and Kosovo to swiftly deliver on their commitment to the dialogue given the direct link between comprehensive normalization of relations between them and the concrete prospects for their EU aspirations."

Raskovic Ivic in an open letter to Vucic: I urge you not to go to Paris (KoSSev)

A Serbian deputy, Sanda Raskovic-Ivic sent an open letter to the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, calling on him to cancel his attendance of the anniversary of the end of the First World War in Paris, which will show that Serbia will not accept blackmail, humiliation and a revision of history.

See more at: https://bit.ly/2RHKDM6

Thaci’s adviser: No big Belgrade-Pristina talks in Paris (N1)

In an interview with N1 television, Azem Vlasi, Kosovo President’s adviser has said on Wednesday that an expected meeting between Hashim Thaci and Aleksandar Vucic in Paris would not produce any big news since it will be a protocol encounter.

“That is a ceremony marking the Reemergence day, and no serious bilateral talks are expected,” Vlasi, a former Yugoslav high-ranking official said.

Veseli: "We have one enemy - these are Serbia and its president" (Beta, Vecernje Novosti, NMagazin)

Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti reports that Kadri Veseli, at the beginning of his speech at the Kosovo Assembly's extraordinary session on the dialogue with Serbia, said that Kosovo has one enemy and that is Serbia and only one president who is against the independence of Kosovo, the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

The daily reports that Veseli said he would rather talk about the process of visa liberalization today, but that he advocates for an adoption of a common resolution.