Rada Trajkovic, who was recently appointed an adviser to Kosovo’s only Serb minister, was detained by police at the Serbia-Kosovo border late on Thursday.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said after meeting EU and US envoys that no deal has yet been found to resolve a dispute with Kosovo over vehicle licence plates that has sparked border protests by Serbs.
Dismissing right-wing calls for the festival to be banned, one of the organisers says the message of inter-ethnic dialogue that it promotes is more needed today than ever.
The current crisis at the Kosovo-Serbia border escalated because of Belgrade and Pristina’s domestic political agendas and has already had a damaging impact on hopes for progress in normalising relations, experts told BIRN.
The Belgrade-backed Kosovo Serb party has re-elected as its vice-president a controversial businessman once indicted over the murder of the Kosovo Serb opposition politician Oliver Ivanovic.
