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Serbia’s President PR: Tough meeting with Grenell, Vucic takes minutes himself (TV Prva, Beta, N1)

Suzana Vasiljevic, Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic media advisor, said on Friday the meeting with Richard Grenell, the US head of state Donald Trump’s envoy to Kosovo, was challenging, but could not go into the details of the talks, the Beta news agency reported.

Speaking to the Prva TV, Vasiljevic said the two spoke alone in the first ten minutes, after which the head of Serbia’s Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric joined the meeting.

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.

Vucic: Thank you to Erdogan for being ready to accept any decision on Kosovo (N1, KIM radio, RTV Puls)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said today that Turkey's position on Kosovo is in line with its interests, which are different from Serbian ones, but that a major step forward is that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will accept any solution that Belgrade and Pristina reach. Asked by a reporter addressed to the Turkish president - does he now understand better than before that solutions are not good where one gets everything and the other nothing - Vucic said that Turkey acted in accordance with its interests and that Serbia would not get anything good, nor will be smarte

Vucic congratulate birthday to Russia’s Putin (Beta, N1)

Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s President congratulated Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin his 67th birthday and wished him “good health and personal happiness, as well as the strength, to continue to successfully represent Russia’s and the fraternal Russian nation's interests,” the Beta news agency reported on Monday.

In their phone conversation, the two leaders agreed to meet in Moscow before the end of the year to talk about the vital issues, especially about Kosovo.

Palmer told me who would form Kosovo Govt. two months ago, says Serbian FM Dacic (Beta, N1)

Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Monday that the US representative to the Western Balkans Matthew Palmer told him two months ago that Washington expected Kosovo opposition politicians Albin Kurti and Isa Mustafa would form a new government, the Belgrade based news agency Beta reports.

Dodik: Russia and China should be asked to appoint their envoys in the Balkans (Kurir, N1)

Russia and China should be asked now to name their own special envoys in the Balkans, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said commenting on the appointment of Richard Grenell as Washington's special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina talks, Serbian media carried on Sunday. “Serbia has no reason to be worried, it has a clear stance. It would be good now to ask Russia and China to name their special envoys, so we can see how those issues can be solved.

SNS offers transport to displaced Serbs from Kosovo to vote for Serbian List (KoSSev, N1)

The ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) branch in the central city of Kraljevo, said it called on some 20,000 Serbs displaced from Kosovo and living in the city to go to Kosovo and vote for Serbian List in Sunday’s elections, local TV reported.

Vesna Milojevic, a local SNS official, said that “Serbian List is the only grantor of the Serbs’ survival” in Kosovo, adding the party managed to unite all Serbs there.

Coalition Freedom, Rasic: Those not being loyal to Serb List fired daily; two arrests (RFE, Beta, N1)

Nenad Rasic, Kosovo Serb opposition politician and the Coalition Freedom candidate for Prime Ministers in the elections on Sunday, told Radio Free Europe (RFE) that the campaign was conducted in "abnormal conditions," the Beta news agency reported on Wednesday.

He said that "everyday someone gets fired because they are not loyal to Serbian List. There is no person who hasn't been called at least five times."

Pristina indicts Serb for preparing terrorist attacks in Kosovo (Kossev, Koha, N1)

Kosovo Special Prosecutors’ Office indicted a Serb identified only by initials S.A. suspected of “preparing terrorist or criminal acts against Kosovo’s Constitutional order and safety,” the KoSSev website reported on Wednesday. According to Pristina’s Koha website, the charge sheet says that S.A. has sent a package to R.R.

Hungarian PM in sudden visit to Belgrade, tours river with Serbia’s President (N1)

Victor Orbán, the Prime Minister of Hungary came to Belgrade on Tuesday in what appeared to be a sudden, private visit during which he toured the river in Serbia’s capital with his host President Aleksandar Vucic, N1 reported.

''We are discovering the beauties of Belgrade from the river with Serbia’s great friend,'' Vucic said on Instagram, publishing a photo of the two on a boat.