Political status of Kosovo

As he said, the idea failed because "our people thought differently, and that will cost us dearly in two to three decades."

Emmanuel Makron and Angela Merkel have today opened a summit in Berlin dedicated to the Western Balkans.
The French president and the German Chancellor urged Serbia and Kosovo to resume their dialogue ahead of any step in their possible entry into the EU, the French press reported.

The minister of foreign affairs of Serbia told RTS that Pristina must revoke taxes (on goods from central Serbia) first for this to happen.

The meeting later this month will bring together top representatives of Belgrade and Pristina.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this in Moscow after his meeting with Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic, adding that the West also needs to force Pristina leaders to stop with provocations and confrontational policy aimed against Belgrade.

The Serbian president and leader of the ruling SNS party told a party gathering in Belgrade that he would face a request to recognize a full independence of Kosovo, without divisions and "full and integral territory of an independent Kosovo."

And Serbia shows readiness to overcome the negative heritage of the past, the first deputy PM and foreign minister said on Monday, according to the government.

In an interview for Vecernje Novosti, which recalled that this German politician said back in 2000 that Kosovo was "America's need to dominate the Balkans" - he pointed out that since the aggressive war against the the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) in 1999, NATO, led by the United States, did not stop its conflicts.

He added that there was also dissatisfaction about "the untimely decision on the transformation of the Kosovo Security Force (into an army)."

The meeting took place on the eve of a meeting of the United Nations Security Council dedicated to Guterres' regular report on the work of UNMIK, the UN mission in Kosovo, the Serbian government said.