Hahn warns EU member states (Kosovo online, B92)
Serbian PM says agreement with Euro-Asian Union not political (N1, Vecernje Novosti, BETA)
"EU believes in Serbia's European destiny" (Tanjug, B92)
EU: Kosovo to form Government with respect to Constitution (Kosovo online, N1)
Maja Kocijancic, a European Union spokesperson, said that new Kosovo Government should be formed in line with its Constitution, the Kosovo online website carried the Gazeta Express report on Friday.
She added the EU was looking forward to the assembling of Kosovo’s new Government, probably made up of the members of the Vetëvendosje (Self-Determination) and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), the two parties which ended neck-to-neck in the Sunday’s general elections.
"If China, India and Russia do not recognize Kosovo, it will not achieve statehood" (B92, Tanjug)
He added that the current situation cannot be continued and that an agreement must be reached, on which he will strongly engage, and will first visit Pristina, because, he says, he already knows Serbia well.
“One thing is clear: Kosovo and Serbia must reach an agreement. That is important. I will do everything I can to meet this priority”, Borrell said.
Serbia needs agreement on Kosovo for EU integration process, says German envoy (TV Prva, Beta, N1)
The German Ambassador in Belgrade Thomas Schieb said on Wednesday that Serbia needs a comprehensive agreement with Kosovo to take what he called a decisive step in its European integration process.
''Germany wants to see the comprehensive agreement reached through a dialogue,'' he told TV Prva adding that Serbia must resolve the Kosovo problem to become a member of the European Union and benefit from all the advantages of membership.
RFE: EU envoy for Belgrade-Pristina dialogue a certainty (Beta, N1)
The appointment of a European Union special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is a sure thing and the decision will probably be announced after the EU’s future top diplomat Josep Borrell adresses the European Parliament on October 7, Radio Free Europe said on Thursday quoting unnamed diplomatic sources in Brussels.
Western Balkans countries will fill in gap on European map, Ivan Vejvoda says
Ivan Vejvoda, the Director of the European Project at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM), said on Tuesday he believed the Western Balkans countries would become the European Union member states and that the question was not whether but when that would happen, the Beta news agency reported.
Vucic’s ‘tight’ agenda in New York (B92, Tanjug)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reached New York on Monday afternoon to attend the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly
Immediately upon arrival, Vucic will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.