Hoyt Brian Yee

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has reiterated Serbia would conduct its own policy by pursuing its own interests - not the interests of any foreign power, including the US, Russia and the EU.

Vucic said this in response to the most recent statement by US Ambassador to Macedonia Hoyt Brian Yee, who also said a few months ago that Serbia could not "sit on two chairs."

The United States is present in the Western Balkans region and will pay attention to this region in the future. This was stated by the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Hoyt Brian Yee, who will soon take up the post of US Ambassador to Macedonian capital Skopje, reports sega.

Senior US official Hoyt Brian Yee will be the new US ambassador to FYROM (Macedonia), the US State Department has confirmed for Jazeera.

He will replace Jess Baily, who was appointed as US ambassador in Skopje in December 2014.

Vice President of the German Marshall Fund Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff agrees with remarks that Serbia has to choose which bloc it wants to belong to.

Nevertheless, he added that it has already done so by entering the EU membership negotiations.

Nevertheless, he added that it has already done so by entering the EU membership negotiations.

Kleine-Brockhoff told the Beta agency in an interview that basic regulations of the European Union do not prohibit member countries from maintaining good relations with countries outside the Union, and that by joining the EU Serbia could influence EU's foreign policy.

The assessment that Greece and FYROM show great willingness to resolve the naming issue was expressed by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Hoyt Brian Yee.

The Norwegian ambassador in Belgrade has told Blic in an interview that the debate about "the chairs" Serbia is sitting on distracts from important topics.

Arne Sannes Bjornstad says that instead, Serbia should ask itself what kind of signal it is sending to the European Union.

Academician Dusan Teodorovic has taken to Twitter to send a message to Russia's ambassador in Belgrade, saying he should "no longer help us."

Serbia "wants to maintain its delicate balancing act" between the West, Russia and China, Reuters has quoted Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic as saying.

"What we do not want is that someone pulls our own chair from under us… what is important is to see what is in our own best interest," Dacic said.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said late Monday his conversation with US official Hoyt Brian Yee had not been easy but that his job was to protect Serbia's interests.

Yee said the US supported the "territorial integrity of the independent state of Kosovo" and his message was we should not "interfere" in that territorial integrity, Vucic said on a Pink TV talk show.