Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic emphasized today that the head of the KiM Office, Marko Djuric, was in Berlin at a preparatory meeting for a possible summit in Paris, and that it is even more certain now that the summit will not happen, reported Serbian media.

- I sent Marko Djuric to that meeting personally - Vucic told reporters and pointed out that there were no secrets, except that the hosts agreed on the content of the conversation.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called US President Donald Trump to convince the Kosovo authorities to revoke the 100 percent tariffs on Serbian goods, the president’s press service said on Friday.

“I am asking you to convince Pristina to revoke its harmful tariffs on goods produced in central Serbia so that the dialogue to find a compromise, mutually acceptable solution can be continued,” Vucic wrote in a message to Trump on the US president’s birthday.

Serbian state broadcaster RTS reports that members of the Kosovo Assembly, Arban Abrashi and Nait Hasani, visited Bujanovac and supported the idea of a referendum on the unification of municipalities in the south of Serbia Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja with Kosovo, and inclusion of the issue in the Belgrade - Pristina negotiations.

Departure of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who announced she would not run for the new mandate, would have an impact on everything that happens in Europe, including Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Regional Cooperation Council Secretary General Goran Svilanovic believes, Blic daily reports.

US Assistant Secretary of State Wess Mitchell pointed out at a meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic that the United States is open to consider with its EU counterparts the proposal for Kosovo' solution to which Belgrade and Pristina would come up in the dialogue.

Wess Mitchell expressed the US support to the continuation of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, with the expectation that the process will bring a lasting political solution, reports RTS, quoting the Serbian Foreign Ministry announcement.

The Minister for Communities and Returns and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kosovo Government in resignation, Dalibor Jevtic, believe that the issue of "Trepca" probably will be tackled within the framework of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, KIM radio reports on Friday.

The government adopted this week a draft of the Trepca Statute and forwarded it to the Kosovo Assembly for consideration.

EU foreign policy and security chief Federica Mogherini and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic agreed during their March 27 meeting in Belgrade to find new ways for a resumption of work and a peaceful resolution of open issues between Belgrade and Pristina, Maja Kocijancic said on Tuesday.

United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres appreciates cooperation of Serbia with the UN, a press statement reads following the meeting between UN SG Guterres and the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

The statement also said the two officials discussed several topics related to the Western Balkans.

Serbian President Office announced yesterday Vucic conferred with Guterres on the situation in the region and current state of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

Division of Kosovo would cause a domino effect across the Balkans with devastating consequences for all, Abbot of the Serbian Orthodox Church Visoki Decani Monastery, Sava Janjic said, Serbian media reported.

In such scenario everyone would lose, and benefits would be miserable. Serbs would vanish from Kosovo, and it would become a model for the creation of ethnically cleaned states, Abbot Janjic further said.

Reconciliation is a prerequisite for long-term solution and not otherwise, he added.