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Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the phone, and met with NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg in Davos.

B92's Filip Cukanovic said these conversations regarded the situation in Kosovo and relations in the region, as well as "ways to solve the problems that have piled up."

Despite being "tested" by problems and "misperceptions," Turkey-U.S. relations are "not irretrievable" and could be fixed under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to Stephen Hadley, a former U.S. National Security Advisor, speaking after top-level talks in Ankara on Jan. 17.

BRUSSELS/PRAGUE - NATO said on Monday it was watching closely the situation between Belgrade and Pristina, and urged all parties to exercise restraint and continue the dialogue, Radio Free Europe reported.

The statement was released from the NATO headquarters as a comment on the latest developments in the relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to enter the Oval Office, Turkey has voiced three key demands from the new U.S. administration: The extradition of Pennsylvania-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, ceasing support for Syrian Kurdish groups, and taking steps to counter anti-American feelings in the Turkish society.

Bulgaria has the potential for a more enhanced political presence in Southeast Europe, Bulgaria's President-elect Rumen Radev has said.

In a highly critical speech after his swearing-in ceremony in the Parliament, Radev has vowed to be "the President of all Bulgarians, regardless of their party affiliation, religion and ethnicity" and to oppose "attempts at polarizing our society."

Russia and Turkey carried out their first joint airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Syria on Wednesday, further expanding their budding military cooperation, the Russian military said.

Russia and Turkey back opposing sides in Syria’s five-year civil war.

Norway has deployed more soldiers to a remote region called Finnmark in the Arctic circle on its borders with Russia. The move comes as tensions between Russia and the US, UK and Norway are rising as the NATO members are monitoring Russia’s activities in the North.

NATO headquarters sources said on Wednesday that the Brussels Agreement from 2013, which Serbia is invoking, "does not include the police forces of Kosovo."

According to Beta agency, they also stated that "Kosovo authorities do not have to seek approval from KFOR (NATO troops in Kosovo) to send their police throughout Kosovo."

Turkey's chief of General Staff, Gen. Hulusi Akar, has met his Israeli counterpart for the first time since the two countries normalized their ties in the wake of the 2010 Mavi Marmara Massacre. 

The meeting came on the sidelines of a NATO conference for defense heads between Jan. 17-18 in Brussels, the Turkish Armed Forces said. 

Turkey and its neighbors are getting ready for the new host of the White House. But the signs are confusing. Donald Trump's policies sound like they will be remarkably different from his predecessor's.

But when you scratch the surface and dig deeper, they sound like more of the same - at least in their foreign relations' agendas.