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Dacic: Pressure to be fiercer than ever in next two months (Srpski Telegraf, Tanjug, B92)

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic has warned that in the two months after the summit in Berlin, pressure on Serbia will be fiercer than ever before. "The Berlin summit did not bring a solution, but a step has been made, given that Germany and France insist on the unblocking of the dialogue and the resumption of talks between Belgrade and Pristina," Dacic said in op-ed published by Srpski Telegraf. "On the other hand, this does not mean that pressure on Belgrade will weaken.

Dacic: They can make any threats they like, we have our interests (Prva TV, Tanjug, B92)

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday there can be no agreement with Pristina without Belgrade's consent. And Serbia will protect the interests of the people and the state, he told Prva TV a day after the meeting on Kosovo in Berlin, called by Germany and France. "They can threaten us with anything, they can threaten us with whether or not we will join the EU, (but) there is the national, state interest.

Serbian and Russian presidents meet in Beijing (B92, Tanjug)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met on Friday in Beijing with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The two leaders are in China for the Belt and Road forum.

According to announcements coming from both sides before the meeting, the main topic was Kosovo.

At the start of their conversation, Putin said he was satisfied with economic cooperation between Russia and Serbia, and that he was glad he could discuss bilateral and regional issues with Vucic.

Unlike others, China doesn't pressure Serbia, President Vucic says (Tanjug, B92, RTS)

It's important for Serbia to cooperate with China as it's a great power, which, unlike others, doesn't exert pressure on our country, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in Beijing. Speaking at a panel organized by China's Communist Party ahead of the Second Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, Vucic stressed that cooperation between people should not be treated as a matter on the sidelines, but that this is instead the basis for building all other forms of cooperation. At the beginning of his speech, the Serbian President told the audience that he had just had a meeting with President of Chi

Dacic: Vucic will be pressured in Berlin, meeting organized without knowledge of EU (TV Pink, Tanjug, B92)

President Aleksandar Vucic would face pressure in Berlin over Kosovo and Metohija, therefore the meetings he would have in Beijing with Chinese and Russian presidents are very important, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic told TV Pink. Dacic noted he does not expect pressure related to making some new framework of the content of the agreement with Pristina, but “there would certainly be the culmination of pressure on Serbia to continue the dialogue regardless of Pristina tariffs.” Dacic also said the meeting in Berlin, organized by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the French

Belgrade to consider countermeasures against Pristina (Tanjug, B92)

The Serbian President and leader of the ruling SNS party told a party gathering in Belgrade that he would face a request to recognize a full independence of Kosovo, without divisions and "full and integral territory of an independent Kosovo," Serbian media reported. He said he would speak with the presidents of China and Russia in Beijing and then head to Berlin for very difficult meetings with the leaders of France and Germany. "I will tell you right away: nothing good awaits us there and I expect nothing good.