US Senator Chris Murphy believes that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is willing to recognize Kosovo but is angry over the 100 percent tariffs imposed by Pristina on goods from Serbia.
Regional broadcaster N1 reported that Republican Senator Ron Johnson wrote on his blog about his recent visit to Belgrade, saying:
Regional broadcaster N1 reports that the head of the opposition Dveri Movement Bosko Obradovic said he had filed criminal charges against Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic who he said violated the Penal Code in his meeting with the US senators last week, N1 reported.
Obradovic specified that Vucic had breached the Articles 305, 306, 307 and 320 of the country’s Penal Code in respect to Kosovo.
Ramush Haradinaj, Kosovo's Prime Minister, told KoSSev portal that a solution for the normalisation of relations between Pristina and Belgrade was in Serbia’s recognition of Kosovo's independence and that without it the import taxes would stay in place and there wouldn’t be any dialogue.
President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he regretted that his idea of establishing a final compromise boundary between Serbs and Albanians has failed.
As he said, the idea failed because "our people thought differently, and that will cost us dearly in two to three decades."
Serbia cannot recognize the independence of Kosovo, because if it does, neither region nor Serbia will receive anything, said president of the European Movement in Kosovo Rada Trajkovic to the Belgrade based weekly NIN and estimated that this would lead to destabilization of Serbia, reports Belgrade based daily Danas.
Rada Trajkovic, president of the European Movement of Serbs, told RTK2 that Serbia has already done a lot in the field of compromise with Kosovo, allowing Pristina full internal independence through executive, legislative and judicial power, which is completely independent from Belgrade.
Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday that Serbia would not first accept the independence of Kosovo and then negotiate with Pristina, adding "that’s for sure," the Beta news agency reported.
After meeting his Cape Verde’s counterpart Luis Filipe Taveras in Belgrade, Ivica Dacic told reporters that "unilaterally declared independence (of Kosovo) was an illegal act."
"Our stand is that we don’t recognise Kosovo, an illegal creation."
According to the diplomatic source of Belgrade daily newspapers Danas, Thaci and Haradinaj have been preparing the Kosovo public for a long time to say at some point that recognition of Serbia is not the most important thing.
The same source says that Serbia should not be bothered with the ultimate goal in the state platform of Kosovo for the finalization of the Brussels dialogue, and the mutual recognition and a chair in the UN, because it will certainly not happen, writes Danas in today's edition.
Eight per cent of those who took part in the poll said they supported recognizing Kosovo; seven per cent want all negotiations to be abandoned, while six per cent think Belgrade should withdraw its signature from the Brussels agreement, Tanjug reports.
A Faktor Plus poll commissioned by the Belgrade based news agency Tanjug shows that an almost equal number of respondents support and oppose continuation of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, reports Serbian media.
In an interview with the public broadcaster in the province of Vojvodina (RTV), cited by the Beta agency, Dacic said the possibility of Serbia accepting Kosovo's UN membership was a mirage.