Kosovo–Serbia relations

Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti writes this on Tuesday.

According to the newspaper, this message should be handed over to the president of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who will visit Sarajava and Banja Luka on September 16-17.

"We must bring about reciprocal recognition and good neighborly relations between Kosovo and Serbia," Thaci further stated.

This was his reaction on Twitter to former Swedish PM Carl Bildt saying that "whoever speaks of (border) correction is embracing a new wave of ethnic cleansing."

"Delays will cost us too much," Thaci stressed.

But Pristina has some things that "must be dine," Dacic told Prva TV on Wednesday morning.

According to him, "there will no better time for resolving the Kosovo issue."

Dacic said that talks will be intensified in the next few months in an attempt to find a lasting solution for the status of Kosovo and Metohija.

He says there are two reasons for that.

Four reasons

"My position as the president is completely clear - the solution to the problem is needed and necessary, as soon as possible, for several reasons," Vucic said.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday that measures would be taken to strengthen the Serbian army and intelligence services after talks with Patriarch Irinej about what Vucic called the "survival of the Serbian people" in Kosovo.

President Vucic claimed on Friday in an open letter to Kosovo Serbs that Pristina will "not lift a finger" to establish the promised Association of Serb Majority Municipalities in Kosovo as agreed in the EU-mediated Belgrade-Pristina talks on normalising relations.

He said this on Friday, after a meeting of the Kosovo Council for Security.

"No one has the right to undertake unilateral action," Haradinaj said, at a press conference and added that "violation of Kosovo laws would not be tolerated," the publication Gazeta Express has reported.

He added that Kosovo would surely be debated in the council in the future, Beta agency reported.

Commenting on the decision by the United Kingdom, which holds the presidency of the UN Security Council in August, not to discuss Kosovo in August, Djuric described the decision as a diplomatic mobilization of those supporting Kosovo's independence.

The President of the Serb Republic (RS) Milorad Dodik said this, referring to the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH).

Despite reports that Serbs have been asking to leave the Kosovo Security Force amid an upsurge of political tensions between Belgrade and Pristina, the number of Serbs who want to join the Kosovo Police remains similar to 2014, the force said.

Kosovo Police told BIRN that in 2014, over 5 per cent of applicants were Serbs, "while this year there was around 5 per cent (4.91 per cent)".