Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic reiterated in Nis that Belgrade is ready to resume dialogue with Pristina in Brussels. We have reached many a compromise in the talks and managed to preserve our vital national interests, Vucic emphasized. According to him, the EU also wants a great deal of issues to be resolved in dialogue prior to the Vienna Conference.

The talks in Brussels on Monday were very difficult, another step forward has been taken and now it is important that those who are playing a very important role in the Western Balkans, namely the international community and the European Union above all, exert additional pressure on Pristina in order to finalize the agreement, Kosovo deputy PM Branimir Stojanovic said to International Radio Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic talked in Belgrade on Wednesday with Cuban Ambassador Adela Mayra Ruiz Garcia, who underscored that Cuba will continue to back Serbia's position on Kosovo-Metohija.

That is the matter of principle, and in relation to that, nothing will change in Cuba's policy, Ruiz Garcia said, thanking President Nikolic on Serbia's support in the UN General Assembly, the president's press office stated in a statement.

The Association of Djakovica citizens has asked the US Ambassador in Pristina Tracy Jacobson, representatives of KFOR, UNMIK and EULEX, and non-governmental organizations to enable them to visit Serbian churches in this town in southwestern Kosovo. A bus carrying 40 displaced Serbs from that town was stoned in front of the Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin in Djakovica on Christmas Eve.