Brian Yee

BELGRADE - PM Aleksandar Vucic's election as president of Serbia is very significant as it gives him an even stronger mandate to continue reforms and bring Serbia closer to its goal of EU membership and integration with EU institutions, US Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Hoyt Brian Yee said in Belgrade Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The US and Serbia agree that maintaining peace and stability in the Western Balkans is the top priority as it ensures better economy, higher growth, more investments and better exports, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said Wednesday.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has commented on speculation that US State Department official Hoyt Brian Yee does not represent the current US administration.

Vucic did this after meeting with Yee in Belgrade on Wednesday.

A high ranking US State Department official has warned that Russia is deepening efforts to influence Balkans politics, Radio Free Europe is reporting.

This includes Moscow encouraging "the Serb-dominated part of Bosnia-Herzegovina" to secede.

On a visit to Albania, Deputy Assistant US Secretary of State Hoyt Brian Yee asked all Albanian parties to participate in the June 18 elections in order to give all citizens the right to be represented.

The civic initiative For a United Macedonia is continuing to organize protests in the country, saying that it will not allow anyone to ''violate the constitution or think they can elect a parliamentary speaker illegally'', quoted by BNR.

In the wake of the recent ethnically motivated clashes in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and the political changes in Albania, Greece is keeping a wary eye on developments in both neighboring countries.

A US State Department official says that "coordination was missing between Pristina and international officials" when it comes to changing the law on the KSF.

Anti-NATO opposition politicians in Montenegro have written to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, seeking his aid in getting Donald Trump's new US administration to reconsider America's support for Montenegro's membership of NATO.

Top US officials will testify on Wednesday at a hearing at the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on whether Montenegro is ready to become a NATO member.