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.

Ahead of his arrival in Belgrade, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with Politika that Turkey was ready to do its best to solve Kosovo's problem.

Erdoğan pointed out that an agreement that would be acceptable to both parties would also be acceptable to Turkey.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will next week host Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who will be on an official visit to Serbia on October 7-8, the Serbian president's press office announced Wednesday.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will next week host Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who will be on an official visit to Serbia on October 7-8, the Serbian president's press office announced Wednesday.

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric met today with the Turkish Ambassador to Serbia Tanju Bilgic and presented to him problems in the supply of the Serbian population in Kosovo with basic life commodities, following Pristina’s decision to impose 100 percent tariffs on goods from central Serbia, RTS reports.

Djuric warned that Pristina still tries to prevent in all possible ways or make difficult supply of the food and medicaments, adding that supply of the population in northern Kosovo thus remains irregular and uncertain.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan should visit Serbia in June, Turkish Ambassador in Belgrade Tanju Bilgic said on Thursday, Tanjug news agency reports.

Bilgic and Minister of Education Mladen Sarcevic discussed the opening of a Turkish school in Belgrade.

At the meeting of the delegation of the Ministry of Education of Turkey and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia, Sarcevic said that he and the ambassador agreed that relations between the two countries have never been better.

Leaders of Montenegro's opposition Democratic Front Andrija Mandic and Milan Knezevic will attend the lunch that the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will organize for Vladimir Putin. The Russian president will arrive in Serbia on Thursday to a formal visit.

Pristina official has said that President Aleksandar Vucic statement about the treatment of the Kosovo flag in Istanbul on Monday was "not true."

Jetlir Zuberaj, the head of the Kosovo foreign minister's cabinet, reacted in this way regarding Vucic's statement that during the ceremony of the opening of a new airport in Istanbul, the flag of Kosovo was removed at his request.

In his response to a question posed by Albanian language website koha.net, Zuberaj called Vucic "a criminal slanderer."

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic that Ankara will support any agreement on Kosovo reached by Serbs and Albanians, the Serbian president’s cabinet said in Wednesday’s press release.

Speaking to Vucic by telephone, Erdogan said that Turkey will support any agreement reached by Belgrade and Pristina as part of their dialogue on Kosovo.

Serbian politicians do not understand Kosovo Serbs, they do not understand what division would mean in practice, and it would mean increasing possibility for a conflict, Director of Interethnic Relations Forum Dusan Janjic told Danas daily.

“This is not a simple thing. Serbs from the north have their suitcases packed already since they know it very well, clashes occur when territories are divided or changed,” Janjic said.

He added implementation of the wish for division of the exchange (of territories) of the Serbian authorities in fact is not realistic.

The EU-Turkey accession negotiations should stop immediately, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has told Greek daily Kathimerini.

Previously, Kurz, whose country took over EU's rotating presidency on July 6, said he was in favor of admitting Balkan countries, and improving relations with Russia.

Providing honest prospects and a credible path to the EU for the countries of the Western Balkans will serve the bloc’s political, economic and security interests, Kurz stressed, having described the region as one of the priorities of Austria and its EU presidency.