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Government of Serbia for the revision of Resolution 1244? (Vesti)

Resolution 1244 could be the subject of the "revision", at the request of the Serbian government, said Marko Jaksic, vice president of the Democratic Party of Serbia. He says the president of the Serbian government "misused" the recent visit of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov to Serbia and has asked him to consider "new angles" of this Resolution.

Merkel requests Kosovo in the UN (Blic)

Lasting solution for relations between Belgrade and Pristina, and Serbia’s agreement on the weakening of the Republic of Srpska will be Angela Merkle's two key requests during her visit to Serbia.

Concretely, according to Blic's findings, Germany requests that Serbia ‘in foreseeable future’ allows Kosovo’s membership in the United Nations and support constitutional reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which would reduce influence of entities.

McAllister: Serbia on right track to EU (Blic,Tanjug)

The EU is open to new members and Serbia is on the right path to becoming one, David McAllister, European Parliament standing rapporteur on Serbia, said on Monday, and added that the country has made huge progress over the past several years.

Opening the 15th Economic Summit of the Republic of Serbia at Belgrade's Metropol Palace Hotel, McAllister stated his desire that the first chapters in EU accession talks would be opened this year.

Lajcak: We owe opening of chapters to Serbia (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug)

The fact that we have not opened even the first negotiation chapter with Serbia lends no credibility to the EU, says Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak.

We owe that not only to Serbia, but to ourselves as well, for the sake of the authenticity of the European integration process - the commissioner for enlargement talks, Johannes Hahn, also agrees with this, Lajcak was quoted as saying in Monday's issue of Vecernje Novosti ahead of a meeting of European leaders, to be held in Brussels late this month.

Festival "Miredita, dobar dan" kicks off in Belgrade (RTK2)

The festival "Miredita, dobar dan", presenting Kosovo’s cultural scene, kicks off today in Belgrade, second year in a row. Serbian Minister for Culture will open the festival.

Maja Stojanovic, the director of the Association of Civic Initiative, which is the organizer of the festival, assessed that it is important to open topics about what happened in ’90s in Kosovo, and noticed that last year festival has attracted more media attention in Kosovo than in Belgrade. She added that the goal is that festival goes a bit deeper into the Serbian media space.

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Edi Rama fishing fools in Kosovo (Gazeta Express)

Berat Buzhala writes that Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, appear to agree on a very critical issue: denial of existence of Kosovo state. According to Buzhala, Edi Rama went to Serbia “to fish fools in Pristina.” He considers that Rama’s “patriotic” position in Belgrade last November was a weak spectacle. “I was convinced that Rama was acting.

Centuries needed for return of 200.000 Serbs (Politika)

International community is paying lesser attention to displaced from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, whereas donors are redirecting funds to new hotspots, argues Boro Tajic from the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija (Office for Kosovo).

In the 2015, until late May, only two members of Belosevic family have returned to Kosovo and Metohija, whereas officials claim that the figure is 4.000 and that it is about ‘sustainable return’.

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A month of Pristina in Belgrade (Kontakt Plus Radio)

A festival ‘A month of Pristina in Belgrade’ kicks off today in the Serbian capital and will last until 26 June, said organizers.

Young movie and theater artists, writers, painters, musicians and other artists and activists from Kosovo will be offered a chance to present their work to their colleagues in Serbia.

The festival is organized by the Helsinki Committed for Human Rights in Serbia in cooperation with the Liberal Democratic Center from Pristina.

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Wilhelm: Kosovo issue needs to be resolved (B92)

German Ambassador to Serbia Heinz Wilhelm stated that Germany wants negotiation chapters with Serbia to open as soon as possible and that issue of Kosovo has to be settled.

From German perspective the precondition for the opening of chapters is that chapter 35, which refers to Kosovo, is the first one to be opened, whereas the precondition for its opening is full implementation of the Brussels Agreements, said Wilhelm to TV Pink.

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