Tobias Billstrom

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday Belgrade wanted the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija to be the first, the decisive and the defining step for implementation of an EU proposal on normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations.

BELGRADE - Swedish FM Tobias Billstrom said on Wednesday in Belgrade his meeting with Serbian President Alekdandar Vucic had addressed topics that included normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations, and noted that the EU expected all provisions of the Ohrid agreement to be implemented immediately.

BELGRADE - Speaking to reporters after a meeting with Swedish FM Tobias Billstrom in Belgrade, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said they had discussed the situation in Kosovo-Metohija and that he had reiterated Serbia's position that it would not support UN membership for Kosovo.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet with Swedish FM Tobias Billstrom in Belgrade on Wednesday.

Vucic and Billstrom will hold a press conference after the meeting in the Presidency of Serbia building at Andricev venac, the presidential press office said in a statement.

Sweden should not expect Turkey's support for its NATO membership after a protest near the Turkish embassy in Stockholm at the weekend including the burning of a copy of the Koran, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.

The Biden administration said Thursday it's time for Turkey to ratify Finland and Sweden's applications to join NATO, bluntly saying that holdout members of the alliance should quickly approve their memberships.

The Foreign Ministry on Jan. 12 summoned Sweden's ambassador in Ankara to lodge a protest over a demonstration in Stockholm where the supporters of the PKK hung a puppet that depicted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from its legs.

The ministry expressed Ankara's frustration about the terrorist propaganda, which targeted Erdoğan and Türkiye, diplomatic sources said.

Sweden's center-right government will fulfil all requirements under a deal with Türkiye to join NATO and will concentrate external relations to its immediate neighborhood while dropping the previous administration's "feminist foreign policy," the country's top diplomat has said.

Finnish officials will arrive in Ankara on Oct. 25 to discuss their country's bid to join NATO, daily Milliyet has reported.

A delegation from Finland's Justice Ministry will meet Kasım Çiçek, the head of foreign relations at the Justice Ministry.

The talks will focus on the extradition of individuals Türkiye regards as terrorists.

STOCKHOLM - I hope that Serbia will manage to attract as many foreign investments as possible after it implements the package of economic measures and closes an arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday after the meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven.