OSCE Ministerial Council

"If you want to join the EU, I think you won't open a new chapter if you don't follow all EU decisions, including the sanctions against Russia," Lavrov said at a press conference during the OSCE Ministerial Council, answering a question from a journalist from Serbia what the final outcome of talks between Belgrade and Pristina would be.

SKOPJE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday the so-called Kosovo would never become a member of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Commenting on reports that Albania had sought OSCE membership for the so-called Kosovo, Dacic said that, fortunately, decisions in the organisation were taken by consensus.

Bulgaria has officially granted permission for a plane carrying Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to pass through its airspace on its way to Skopje for an OSCE Ministerial Council meeting scheduled from November 29 to December 1.

VIENNA - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said in Vienna on Thursday he had told US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that certain strategic agreements must be made and that Serbia was ready for dialogue with the new US administration.

According to a Serbian MFA statement carried by Beta, Dacic told Tillerson that representatives of the old US establishment who defend their policy from the 1990s cannot be the ones to bring changes to the US foreign policy.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says that despite a certain amount of progress being made, there is still instability in some parts of the Balkans.

Tillerson spoke on Thursday in Vienna, Austria, where he is attending the OSCE Ministerial Council.

Tillerson spoke on Thursday in Vienna, Austria, where he is attending the OSCE Ministerial Council.

"Governments should accelerate economic and political reforms, including institutional strengthening, the fight against corruption and the rule of law," he said, according to Tanjug.

These are the key steps, the US official said.

HAMBURG - Serbia is strategically committed to EU integration, and its interest lies in regional stability, Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said at an OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Hamburg Thursday.

Serbia is strategically committed to EU integration, and its interest lies in regional stability, Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday.

He was speaking at an OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Hamburg, Germany.

The OSCE Ministerial Council has decided to extend the mandate of OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic, for one year.

OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday welcomed this decision, the organization said in a statement.