Vucic: Meeting with five envoys was difficult

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday afternoon his meeting with a "big five" of Western envoys had been difficult.

"A difficult meeting with the 'five'. I believe we will find a way out of the crisis in the period to come. I expect important meetings in Brussels in the coming days," Vucic wrote in a post on his buducnostsrbijeav Instagram account.

Vucic met with the EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak, US special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar, the foreign policy and security advisers of the French president and the German chancellor, Emmanuel Bonne and Jens Plattner, and the diplomatic adviser of the Italian PM, Francesco Tallo.

In a brief press statement after the meeting at the Presidency of Serbia, Lajcak said ways to make progress in implementation of an agreement on normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations and in de-escalation in light of recent developments had been the topic of the envoys' visit to Belgrade.

Lajcak said the "five" strongly condemned the September 24 attack on the so-called Kosovo Police, and added that all perpetrators must be brought to justice and that full cooperation by Serbia was expected in that regard.