Ivica Dacic, Serbia’s Foreign Minister, said on Friday the letters the US President Donald Trump sent to presidents of Kosovo and Serbia came “as a kind of support to the peace process,” adding Washington could enable a peace deal as it did with Israel and Egypt four decades ago, the Beta news agency reported.

Speaking to the Belgrade-based Prva television, he added the change at the helm of the US administration led to the Kosovo issue considered not finalised.

Dacic said the US was ready to organise a signing of the Belgrade – Pristina peace agreement when the two capitals reached a deal, “like it was the case between Israel and Egypt at Camp David in 1978.”

 Asked about the possibility of early general election in Serbia, the Foreign Minister said he did not expect them next year. “They would suit the parties, but not the state,” Dacic said.

Also on Friday, commenting the letters to Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci, presidents of Serbia and Kosovo respectively, the Foreign Ministry Secretary-General Veljko Odalovic said Washington might “bring Pristina to its senses.”

Pristina has been insisting on the US involvement in the process and Belgrade did not object the idea.

In an apparent attempt to take over the dialogue on normalisation of relation between Pristina and Belgrade from the European Union, Washington said the bloc might be moved to other issues.

It is not yet clear whether Russia, as a traditional Serbia's backer, would try to get involved, but Vucic had earlier said Moscow was ready if the US took part.