On the eve of a meeting of the Regional office for the cooperation of youths (RYCO) Managing Board due to be held in Pristina, Serbia’s representative Milica Skiljevic was replaced because she said she would go to Kosovo despite the country’s instructions, N1 reported on Wednesday.

The reason for her replacement was Serbia’s Government decision that the move would be against the country’s interest, while Skiljevic said she only wanted to present the interest of young people.

Serbia’s Trade Minister Rasim Ljajic said on Tuesday the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) of 2006 became debatable after Kosovo introduced the 100 percent import duties on goods from Serbia and requires a recovery to maintain, the Beta news agency reported.

Ljajic added Serbia was losing a million Euros per day due to Pristina's taxes introduced last November.

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic told the European Council on Foreign Relations on Monday his country was a democratic state and that he was satisfied when people could protest peacefully, but that country could not allow violence, the FoNet news agency reported.

The Army of Serbia’s Chief-of-Staff General Milan Mojsilovic said on Tuesday that the situation in Kosovo was “extremely complex”, but that Belgrade did not consider any military option right now, the Beta news agency reported.

Speaking to the state RTS television, Mojsilovic described the situation in Kosovo as “full of tensions and unilateral moves.”

Anyone who feels shame would either resign or withdraw from the talks on Kosovo which deteriorated the status of Serbia, opposition leader Dragan Djilas said in a letter he sent to President Aleksandar Vucic, suggesting that the talks should involve someone “more intelligent, capable and fair.”

Serbia’s high-ranking officials met Patriarch Irinej on Sunday to inform him about the current situation in the country, which President Aleksandar Vucic assessed as “difficult.”

Besides President Vucic, the meeting was attended by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will respond to Pristina’s negotiation platform in a rational manner, the president’s general secretary Nikola Selakovic told the Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).

General Secretary Nikola Selakovic said that Vucic’s response would be “rational, serious, responsible and firm”.

He added that the president had been warning about the platform for five months adding that it is clear now that the entire Belgrade-Pristina dialogue process is being stopped.

The US does not consider that the ongoing talks between Serbia and Kosovo have anything to do with Bosnia, the newly appointed US Ambassador to Sarajevo, Eric Nelson, said on Thursday in his first press conference after taking office, N1 reported.

“The US position is clear that there is no parallel between the negotiations taking place between Serbia and Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina,” he said.

Albanian political analyst Azem Vllasi said that the annexation of the Presevo valley to Kosovo is not a realistic option.

Vllasi, a senior communist official in Kosovo during the 1980s, said that the annexation of that part of southern Serbia is something that everyone in Kosovo wants.

He told Pristina-based KTV that President Hashim Thaci’s insisting on the annexation of the Presevo valley is not a realistic option.

For the third time, about a hundred of Kosovo Serbs gathered in the divided town of Mitrovica for #1in5million protests and walked to the place where their opposition leader Oliver Ivanovic was riddled with bullets on January 16, 2018, the portal KoSSev reported.

They were joined for the first time by activists of the Popular “Fatherland” Movement and members of the Alliance for Serbia (SzS) opposition group.