Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has announced that he will address the nation in mid-September regarding the solution for the issue of Kosovo and Metohija.

Vucic said he would until then "continue the fight not to lose everything, but to try to get something" - which he said seemed to him like "we have a good opportunity to do."

"The Serb people will not be losers, we will not lose everything, we count also on higher wages, and we have a clear road to the future and security," Vucic said in a statement for RTS.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic hosted a ceremony at the US Congress in Washington on Wednesday, the Serbian government announced.

The ceremony was held to mark the anniversary of the 100th anniversary of raising the Serbian flag in front of the White House.

The ceremony was attended by First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dacic and numerous guests from political and public life.

Serbian Minister of Trade, Rasim Ljajic told RTS more Serbia postpones solution for the Kosovo issue, every next proposal is getting worse and more radical, adding it is necessary to move the things from a dead end, because of Serbia, its progress and Serbs who live in Kosovo.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met in Washington Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Wess Mitchell and confirmed mutual readiness to strengthen bilateral relations, Tanjug news agency reported.

Both interlocutors noted readiness to jointly work on a regional stability, and the need to find a compromise solution for the Kosovo issue, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a press statement.

Aleksandar Vucic should visit Kosovo and Metohija in early September and address the Serbs there, writes the daily Blic.

This has been agreed during a meeting held between the Serbian president and representatives of Serbs from southern, northern, and central parts of the province, held in Belgrade on Wednesday.

According to the newspaper, one of the most important conclusions of the meeting is that any proposal, position or decision that Belgrade adopts will first be presented to the representatives of Serbs from the province, while their stance will be heard.

As a Bishop of Raška and Prizren and an Archpastor of the Orthodox Christians in the regions of Kosovo, Metohija and Raška, with tremendous pastoral and moral responsibility I feel the need to express my grave concern regarding a series of political statements on Kosovo-Metohija in the recent time which fill our hearts with increasing uncertainty and disquiet.

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic will be in Washington DC on 25-26 July.

According to the Serbian Government, Dacic will, together with Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, attend a ceremony at US Congress marking 100th anniversary of the raising of the Serbian flag over the White House.

Serbia is selling, not gifting arms, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday. Touring a bypass construction site near Belgrade, Vucic also stressed he was proud of the results achieved by the country's defense industry.

Serbia has a state-owned company, Jugoimport SDPR, he recalled, that should be profitable and sell weapons.

Programme adopted by the Alliance for Serbia at the recent gathering on the Zlatibor Mountain contains 30 topics and Danas daily reported it had an insight into one of the working versions of this paper.

Serbia said it would ask Montenegro to hand over a former Serbian fighter accused of war crimes in Kosovo in 1999 and arrested in the Adriatic republic last week.

Serbia’s justice ministry told BIRN on Tuesday it would ask neighbouring Montenegro to extradite Predrag Vukovic, a Yugoslav Army veteran accused of involvement in the massacre of 46 ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo in 1999.