Federica Mogherini

Vucic told them that Serbia is in a difficult position through no fault of its own, and that he "does not understand neither the introduction of taxes, nor the adoption by Pristina of new resolutions against Serbia and the Serb people."

The meeting will be organized by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.

Haradinaj said that he prevented "partition."

Turkey rejects the statement by EU's High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini calling on Turkey "to show restraint, respect the sovereign rights of Cyprus in its exclusive economic zone and refrain from any such illegal action to which the European Union will respond appropriately and in full solidarity with Cyprus."

Cyprus' foreign ministry says Turkey's bid to drill for natural gas in waters where the island nation has exclusive economic rights is a "flagrant violation" of its sovereignty under international law.

The ministry in a statement on Saturday says the bid shows Turkey's "real intentions" of undermining efforts to restart talks aimed at reunifying the ethnically divided country.

In response to Turkey's plans to conduct drilling operations within Cyprus' exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off its western coast, the European Union has expressed its "grave concern" pledging to "respond appropriately and and in full solidarity" with the East Mediterranean nation.

The initiative was signed by the President of the National Council of Albanians Ragmi Mustafa, Bujanovac Mayor Shaip Kamberi and member of the Serbian Assembly from that municipality Fatmir Hasani, RTS is reporting.

According to him, this creates "the danger that violent ethnic conflict will return to the Balkans."

Monday's Berlin Summit on the Western Balkans ended without a hoped-for breakthrough in restarting EU-mediated talks between Kosovo and Serbia, making it unlikely that a mutually binding agreement to normalise relations will be reached this year.

Vucic, when asked about the campaign in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) media, deliberately launched ahead of the meeting in Berlin, noticed that this was an established media recipe, where something is first invented, and then "elaborated" in regional media, to the detriment of Serbia, to then state: