Serb political representatives from Kosovo would meet Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Raska today, Radio kontakt plus reports.
President Vucic is visiting Raska as part of his “Future of Serbia” campaign.
An agreement with Pristina won't be reached, because Albanians do not want it, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic has assessed. He told Bijeljina-based BN broadcaster late on Thursday that "delimitation" of Kosovo is not a new idea, that it has been talked about for years, and that Serbia in 2005 had a proposal from the international community to partition Kosovo.
Ambassador of Russian Federation to Serbia Alexander Chepurin said Russia supports neutral stance of Serbia and peaceful resolution of Kosovo issues based on respecting the international law, Tanjug news agency reported.
He made these remarks last night at the Russian Embassy during the ceremony to mark the Day of Fatherland Defenders.
“Serbia would have enough strength and patience to stand temptations,” Ambassador Chepurin noted.
Republic of Srpska (in Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Serbia will continue to act together and give a single response to all challenges, Chairman of Bosnian Presidency and Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said on Thursday following a meeting with the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic, BETA news agency reported.
According to SRNA news agency, the two leaders met to discuss the strategic issues related to the survival of the Serb people. The meeting was held without prior notice.
Although it was expected that the polemics between Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic and Minister of Innovations Nenad Popovic on the official policy towards Kosovo and Metohija would get an epilogue at the session of the government, it did not happen.
Commenting on the idea on delineation put forward by FM Dacic, Popovic said that “entire Kosovo is Serbia, not even a meter less.”
The Vice-President of Srpska Lista, Milan Radoicic, who is being investigated by the Kosovo Prosecutor’s Office regarding his involvement in Oliver Ivanovic’s murder, organized crime and drug trafficking, and would be arrested if he returned to Kosovo, has passed polygraph testing in central Serbia and is moving freely, KoSSev portal reports.
This is possible because the investigative and judicial authorities of Serbia and Kosovo are not cooperating at a practical level, nor do they have mechanisms that would allow them to cooperate directly.
Kosovo customs chief Bahri Berisha said that import had dropped by EUR 120 million in the past three months since Pristina imposed 100 percent tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, BETA news agency reported.
“Import from Serbia dropped by EUR 100 million and from Bosnia-Herzegovina by EUR 20 million,” Berisha told Pristina-based Telegrafi.com portal.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaking for the Prva TV morning program said he has the political courage to resolve the Kosovo issue and “there would be peace unless somebody physically attacks the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija,” B92 reported.
“There would be peace unless somebody physically attacks Serbs and starts to kill them, that I would not be able to bear,” Vucic said.
Vucic added he took upon himself resolving the Kosovo issue as his own job, while the Government of Serbia authorized him to negotiate.
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic told RTS he is not surprised that Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz used the meeting with US President Donald Trump to discuss about Kosovo and Metohija.
Speaking for RTS morning news edition Dacic noted that the US more than other partners is interested in finding the lasting solution to the Kosovo and Metohija issue, which is in relation to a change in their stance and reflected in a manner that Kosovo is no longer a closed issue for them.
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday that delineation with Kosovo was not an official proposal but an idea among some of the state leaders, thus correcting the statement he made one day earlier saying that delineation with Kosovo is Serbia’s official proposal to resolve the Kosovo issue, BETA news agency reported.
Dacic said if the idea would become the official proposal it would be presented to the National Assembly, while the citizens would have a final word on it, in a referendum.