Gabriel Escobar

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Balkans Alexander Kasanof in Belgrade on Wednesday, the presidential press office has announced.

The meeting in the building of the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic is scheduled for 9.30 am.

The United States has received assurances from VMRO-DPNE, the nationalist party that won the recent election in North Macedonia, affirming its commitment to the country's European trajectory, according to the US envoy to the Western Balkans.

A senior US official visited Montenegro Monday to offer support to the small Balkan nation seeking to join the European Union.

During a press conference in the capital Podgorica, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Gabriel Escobar said Montenegro should be next in line to join the 27-nation bloc.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak at the Presidency of Serbia in central Belgrade shortly after 6 pm on Friday.

The meeting is also attended by the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic.

BRUSSELS - The next meeting of chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina will be held in Brussels on Tuesday, March 19, European Commission spokesperson Peter Stano confirmed on Friday.

PRISTINA - US special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar met in Pristina with leaders of Serb political parties in Kosovo-Metohija, who voiced concern over decisions by the Pristina authorities and called for an urgent reaction by the international community.

BRUSSELS - European Commission spokesperson Peter Stano said on Wednesday that, in general, EU and US positions on Pristina and its officials converged almost a hundred percent.

Stano was speaking at a Brussels press briefing.

The European Commission is set to recommend that the EU open accession talks with Bosnia and Herzegovina, despite lingering ethnic divisions in the Western Balkan country. At the same time, US Special Representative to the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar is also in the region.

BELGRADE/WASHINGTON - State Secretary at the Serbian Ministry of Defence Nemanja Starovic met with officials of the US administration in Washington on Tuesday.

Starovic is heading a Ministry of Defence delegation on a visit to the US.

Kathimerini English Edition, Delphi Economic Forum and the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) are organizing the 5th Southeast Europe & East Med Forum in Washington, DC on Monday and Tuesday.