Vučić

"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invited me to Ankara on May 7. I did not receive an invitation from Putin," Vucic told reporters in Kragujevac, when asked "whether he would visit Ankara or Moscow on May 7."

Vucic added that he did not talk about that with Putin, but that they spoke on the phone about Kosovo and other issues.

Reacting to EU's stance on the formation of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo - after an EU spokesperson told Tanjug on Tuesday that this would be done "in accordance with Kosovo laws and objections of the Kosovo Constitutional Court - the president said, "let them show us where this is written."

Vucic also said he was "surprised by this statement."

Vucic added that citizens should not expect too much, "because it is simply unrealistic to expect us to command great powers."

Vucic - who is in this Bosnian town for an economic fair - and Boyko Borisov spoke, among other topics, about the upcoming EU-Western Balkans Summit in Bulgaria, whose format is opposed by Spain, Romania, and Cyprus because of the announced presence of representatives of the unrecognized Kosovo.

He was referring to the large-scale violence in Kosovo in March 2004 that targeted Serbs, and their property and holy places.

Vulin in this way reacted to Kosovo President Hashim Thaci's statement made on Monday, about responding with guns to "threats coming from Serbia."

Thaci said earlier that he would respond to alleged threats from Serbia "with guns, just like 19 years ago."

Vucic, who was today in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, said that it was "up to us to respond to Thaci's mention of guns calmly," and then recalled that "it was not his guns, but some foreign planes that were destroying Serbia."

These topics "remain unfinished" despite attempts made during the past year to "speed up the dynamic of solving all open issues between BiH (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Serbia," he told RTS ahead of the meeting in Mostar on Monday.

Covic said that another topic of discussion will be economic cooperation, and added that "trade exchange can be increased in both directions."

And these officials will be "mostly from the West," writes the newspaper Blic.

The daily recalls that Vucic "announced in the past days that he does not expect good news" - but was "preparing specially for the ten-day talks."

According to the article, Vucic will try to find a new way to "resolve the conflict with Kosovo" during these meetings.

A previous version of this interview, published April 2, contained several substantial phrasing errors, now corrected.

But, the president continued on Tuesday, he "doesn't expect particularly good news for our country."