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Djuric: Pristina is mocking Trump’s requests (Tanjug, RTS)

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director, Marko Djuric assessed Pristina authorities are mocking requests that USA President Donald Trump put forward in his letter, in which, as Djuric said, he unequivocally requested Pristina to revoke the tariffs, Tanjug news agency reported. “Trump requested them to refrain from unilateral acts. And what did they do? Nothing.

Kenya will not recognize Kosovo (RTS)

Serbian parliamentarians are paying the first official visit to Kenya, since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries 56 years ago, RTS reports. Serbian Assembly Speaker Maja Gojkovic, who is leading the delegation, started this historic visit by signing a Memorandum on Cooperation between the two parliaments with her Kenyan counterpart Justin Muturi. Gojkovic informed Muturi about the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, as well as Pristina’s unilateral acts, including decision to form so-called Kosovo army and impose 100 percent tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosn

Vucic: Extraordinary elections possible (Tanjug, RTS)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced the possibility of extraordinary elections, RTS reported, adding he would make a decision on that soon. He said early elections are possible if the situation regarding Kosovo remains unchanged, respectively if Pristina does not abolish tariffs, so the talks can not continue. “It is possible, in this case, to go for slightly earlier elections, if such decisions are made, and would they we shall see,” Vucic told journalists after visiting the hospital for children in Belgrade. “If tariffs are not abolished, there are no talks and it is clear,” Vuci

The opposite views of the US and Germany over Kosovo (RFE, B92)

Radio Free Europe estimates that Germany and the US have found themselves on the opposite sides when it comes to resolving the Kosovo issue.

The process of seeking a solution to the issue of normalizing relations between Serbia and Kosovo has long been internationalized, but the last year, the US has made a turn, after which seems the view of the Washington administration is considerably different.

Schieb: Pristina to revoke tariffs urgently (FoNet, TV N1)

German Ambassador to Belgrade Thomas Schieb told Serbian Trade and Telecommunications Minister Rasim Ljajic his country pressured Pristina to urgently lift the 100 percent import tariffs on goods from Serbia, FoNet news agency reported. Schieb added the taxes should be abolished to normalize the trade cooperation in the region and enable the resumption of the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue on normalization of relations, facilitated by the European Union. According to the statement of Ljajic’s ministry the two officials also discussed the improvement of overall economic relations between German

Another anti-government protest in Belgrade, this time about Kosovo (N1)

Members and supporters of the nationalist Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and the signatories to the Appeal for Defence of Kosovo and Metohija, Belgrade’s official name for its former province, organised a protest on Monday called “Stop to Treason!” “Kosovo is Serbia,” N1 reported.

DSS does not take part in the protests in Belgrade, but the organisers said their rally was not against them, but that they only added the issue of Kosovo because the Saturdays’ demonstration did not deal with it.

Milivojevic: It is by no coincidence that they call for abolishment of Resolution 1244 (Tanjug, B92)

Diplomat Zoran Milivojevic commenting on letters/congratulations that the USA President Donald Trump has sent to Belgrade and Pristina, said it points out there is no solution to the Kosovo issue without Serbia, Tanjug news agency reported. He also added, support of Washington to Kosovo independence is indisputable. However, according to Milivojevic, the letter Trump sent to Pristina indirectly brings into questions sovereignty and territorial integrity of Kosovo.

Dusan Janjic: All leads towards an armed conflict in Kosovo (N1)

Great powers always have plan B, and unless the Belgrade and Pristina agreements come to an end, all leads towards the outbreak of localized armed conflicts in Kosovo, assesses Dusan Janjic from the Forum for Ethnic Relations, visiting regional broadcaster TV N1.

Janjic assesses that the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina is in a deadlock, and the position means that you can no longer take any move and that you must play something new, "what the Americans would say, something creative."