Russia's reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Tuesday during an official visit to Kosovo that Vienna will support any agreement that is reached between Pristina and Belgrade, even if it includes what Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has described as a 'border correction'.

He was speaking in the context of Pristina's decision to "complain to international institutions because of Serbia's behavior" - the behavior in question being the latest two withdrawals of recognition of the self-declared Independence of Kosovo.

And the message that Serbia has received is "to be careful about its behavior in order not to irritate the Albanianas."

Vucic stressed that they agreed on "every topic of discussion."

"We got everything that we looked for. We agreed on everything," he told TASS, adding that he "could not reveal the details."

The Russian agency quoted Vucic as saying that he thanked the Russian president for supporting Serbia's territorial integrity and sovereignty.

"They could not convince her to do such a thing until today and they cannot guarantee that they will do it tomorrow or in the near future," Thaci added in an op-ed published on his website.

"Recognition by Serbia is our primary hindrance on or Euro-Atlantic journey," he also stated, and added:

The upcoming visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has caused an argument between Bosnian Serb politicians, with both the president and a leading opposition figure claiming that they invited him.

"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.

At yesterday's regular press conference in Moscow, Zakharova thus responded to a journalist's question as to whether something had changed in Russia's position on Kosovo given Hashim Thaci's statement that he had a conversation with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Ankara earlier this week, Kosovo-based website KoSSev writes.

BELGRADE, June 29. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit Serbia in the coming autumn, Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday.

Vucic said this when reporters asked him to comment on statements coming from Pristina ahead of his meeting on Sunday in Brussels with Kosovo President Hashim Thaci.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said that resolving the issue of the former province of Kosovo is his "obsession", in a large feature-style interview with the London Financial Times.

"Without resolving that problem, everything I have achieved so far won't be sustainable. The first crisis will kill us," Vucic said in the interview published on Tuesday.