Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić says that Belgrade is trying to be constructive, but that Pristina constantly provokes, as it happened today with preventing people to go to the pre-election rally, and setting up the barricades.

"What is this for?" asked Dačić at a news conference, adding that the elections in Kosovo are organized with the help of the OSCE, adding that he does not see why the authorities in Pristina have opposed such a decision.

On the eve of the anniversary of the start of mass riots in Kosovo targeting Serbs, Hashim Thaci claimed that he "felt ashamed" because of those events.

"Then, in 2004, what least should have happened, happened to Kosovo. Something happened that led to Kosovo embarrassing itself," said Thaci, who is now Kosovo's president, and added:

The liaison officer of the Government of Serbia in Pristina Dejan Pavićević warns that a series of unilateral moves of the provisional institutions of self-government in Kosovo endanger the position of the Serbian people and damage interethnic relations in Kosovo. He said this in talks with UNMIK Chief Zahir Tanin and Head of the EU Office in Kosovo Nataliya Apostolova, RTS reports.

Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanović and Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Kosovo Zahir Tanin discussed the current political situation, program of the platform Our Plan and the development of new initiatives, announced the office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

The meeting also discussed the coordination and future cooperation between the Cabinet of the Deputy Prime Minister and UNMIK.

Representatives of the Serbs in Kosovo assess that the decision of the Kosovo government to halt the dialogue with Belgrade until Haradinaj’s release represented an attempt to pressure the EU. The Serbs' representatives have supported all the views of the Council for the National Security, and reiterate they would continue the policy in line with the current policy of Belgrade.

RTS reports today that Vučić has said at a press conference in Kopaonik, when asked about last night's phone conversation with Thaçi that they did not agree on key issues, notably the formation of the Kosovo army which as he said violates the Resolution 1244 but also was contrary to the Kosovo's constitution.  He pointed that he expected help of the EU, US and Russia and said that those were big things for someone to play with.

Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci have had a telephone conversation, the Serbian government has announced.

According to a statement posted on the government's website, the Serbian prime minister and the president of the interim institutions of self-government in Pristina spoke on Tuesday.

They discussed "the importance and consequences" of the visit last week of EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini for the region of the Western Balkans.

Since the beginning of the year was announced several important multimillion infrastructure and other projects related to the region i.e. the highway Belgrade-Sarajevo, the Niš- Albania highway, and the last the Customs Union in the Western Balkans. Meanwhile, political issues have erupted to the foreground - from the crisis in Kosovo, the attempt to revise the verdict (BiH against Serbia for genocide), to the crisis in FYROM, in what Serbia is directly or indirectly involved. The RTS has checked how this reflects on major projects, i.e.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić expects a good and open discussion with the head of European diplomacy Federica Mogherini, who is in Belgrade today, but he does not know whether the case of Ramush Haradinaj will be a topic of their meeting.

"I do not know whether it is a topic, maybe she has some other topics. We'll see," Vučić told reporters in Vranje.

Vučić added that he does not know what "they want from us, but he knows what we want from them."

Belgrade is interested in continuing the dialogue with Pristina, Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić said Wednesday at a meeting with members of the EU Council Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession to the EU (COELA), but he expressed concern over the fact that expert teams had not met in Brussels since November.