Belgrade, Jan 27 (EFE).- Serbia’s president, nationalist Aleksandar Vučić, on Monday called for dialogue with protesters blocking a road junction in Belgrade and insisted that the demands of the months-long protests had been met.

Foreign media are reporting on the student blockade at Autokomanda, one of Belgrade's main traffic hubs, with an AP report stating that farmers with tractors and thousands of citizens have joined the protest.

Serbian dollar bonds sold last year and due in 2034 extended their decline on Tuesday, pushing the yield 6 basis points higher to 6.24%. That compares with a level as low as 5.51% last year, just before Serbia obtained its investment-grade credit rating in October.

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, Prime Minister Miloš Vučević, and Speaker of the National Assembly Ana Brnabić addressed the public at 6 p.m. from the Palace of Serbia. Vučić stated that due to the situation following the collapse of a canopy in Novi Sad,

Protesters have blocked traffic daily across Serbia to protest the deaths of 15 people killed when a concrete canopy collapsed at Novi Sad railway station in November. View on euronews

"We have to talk to those children and they have to go to school. As for the students, despite everything, I invite them to a dialogue and to tell us what is not fulfilled. Come and tell us. Tell us publicly what exact request is not fulfilled", called the president.

The collapse of a canopy of Novi Sad's railway station has led students to take to the streets across Serbia to fight for a better future.

Serbia's Prime Minister Miloš Vučević has resigned following protests triggered by the deadly collapse of a canopy in November.

Thousands of citizens joined the blockade that followed weeks of protests demanding accountability of the deadly accident in the northern city of Novi Sad that critics have blamed on rampant government corruption.

Whatever the protests’ outcome, they are proof that young people in Serbia are not apolitical and that they can fight for a better society. Young people face a simple choice: either they will take part in the struggle for a better country, or they will leave it. They have chosen to fight.

At least 12 journalists have been attacked in Serbia while covering anti-corruption protests since November, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which called on authorities to stop the violence and hold those responsible to account.