Gabriel Escobar

The Special Court of Tirana will decide on Monday whether Fredi Beleri, the recently-elected ethnic Greek mayor of Himare in southern Albania, and his aide Panteli Kokavesi will be released or if their pretrial detention will continue, sources in the Albanian capital said on Friday.

NOVI SAD - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday the situation in the north of Kosovo-Metohija was very difficult and tense as Pristina was expected to try to elect false mayors for three Serb-majority municipalities on Friday.

The special adviser of the State Department, Derek Chollet, and the envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, will speak today before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Senate.

INDJIJA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he was hoping for a decent discussion in Ohrid, North Macedonia, in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue on Saturday and for an opportunity to get things moving, but noted that he would not be travelling to the city with messages as he had already told EU and US envoys Miroslav Lajcak and Gabriel Escobar all he had had to say.

Kosovo's Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, and Serbia's President, Aleksandar Vucic, are due to meet on Saturday in Ohrid, North Macedonia, to discuss the implementation of a deal they agreed last month on normalization of relations under European Union mediation.

BELGRADE - In a public address, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday Serbia had still not received a draft paper on what the EU wanted from the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and that both sides had submitted their own proposals.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Washington's special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - US special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar said on Thursday an EU proposal on normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations was an agreement on normalisation, rather than mutual recognition.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Washington's special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar on Wednesday to discuss the process of normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations, establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities and possibilities for finding sustainable and compromise solutions in the EU-facilitated dialogue.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met on Wednesday in Belgrade with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Washington's special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar, said a post on the president's buducnostsrbijeav Instagram profile.