The US "package" for Kosovo will put Serbia and President Aleksandar Vucic in "a very delicate position."
That's according to Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti, which adds that "the package" could be presented to Serbian officials on Wednesday, when US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell will visit Pristina, and then Belgrade.
EU ministers are to discuss new security initiatives with the Western Balkans in what is seen as the first step toward EU accession.
Brussels has said it hopes the Western Balkan states will join the bloc by 2025.
European interior ministers convened in Brussels on Thursday to discuss how the bloc will coordinate its latest security and migration policies with Western Balkan states.
Ivica Dacic says he, bearing in mind his experience, believes that a part of the international community and Albanians from Kosovo are lying to President Vucic, reports B92 portal, quoting Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).
The First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister told RTS that the Albanians do not want compromise, but only recognition (of Kosovo). "There is no blackmail that can force Serbia to recognize an independent Kosovo," he said.
Patriarch Irinej says he supports the idea to add "Patriarchate of Pec" to the official name of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC).
However, he said he would not move to Kosovo, i.e., to the town of Pec.
The media reported at the beginning of the week that the Serbian Orthodox Church is preparing major changes in May to the way its leader is elected, and to its internal organization and name.
Serbia "cannot trade with the issue of Kosovo and Metohija," First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Monday.
According to the Serbian government, Dacic made the remark after his meeting in Belgrade with Slovakia's acting Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Ivan Korcok.
The new official name of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) will be the Serbian Orthodox Church - the Patriarchate of Pec, Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti daily reports.
According to the article, the procedure for the election of the patriarch will be simplified, and the head of the Church will be elected in a secret ballot, requiring a two-thirds majority of the votes of bishops.
These are the most important changed envisaged in the proposal of the new Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church, writes the newspaper.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has called on the leadership of Comoros to reconsider the decision to recognize Kosovo, made in 2009.
Dacic, who is visiting the island nation, pointed out that this decision went against the principles for which that country is fighting where their territorial integrity is concerned, and that Serbia and Comoros share ties of friendly relations from the era of the former Yugoslavia and its leader, Josip Broz Tito.
The names of Kosovo PM and president Ramush Haradinaj and Hashim Thaci will soon be back on Interpol red notices, Belgrade-based daily Blic reported on Friday.
According to unofficial information Blic said it learned, Serbia's appeal against the removal of theirs, and another 20 names of former leaders of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) from the Interpol system will be accepted, and adopted in the coming weeks.
Aleksandar Vucic has compared the situation around Kosovo with the game of chess.
The Serbian president spoke for RTS about his meeting on Tuesday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with whom he spoke about Kosovo. As he said, the opinions of Germany and Serbia about a compromise that should be reached by Serbia and Kosovo are very different, report Serbian media.
Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday after his meeting with Angela Merkel that he had "understood all messages" and would work to solve the Kosovo problem.
Speaking in Berlin, Vucic said that a "difficult" road to the EU lies ahead of Serbia, that much has to be done when it comes to (accession negotiations) chapters dealing with the rule of law, but also when it comes to relations with Pristina.