Vucic: Safe future of our children requires friends (B92, Kurir, Tanjug)
It is important to become a part of the EU, but what’s more important is to survive and secure a safe future for our children, and for this we need friends. President Aleksandar Vucic wrote this in an op-ed published by the Belgrade based daily Kurir. The president said that “regardless of the growing strength […]
Read More →Pristina position exclusively depends on Belgrade, Serbia’s Vucic says (FoNet, Beta, N1)
Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s President, said in Berlin on Tuesday Kosovo could not consolidate itself as a state without Serbia, the Belgrade-based news agency reported. He said Serbia had been internationally recognised country and a UN member state, so it did not need Kosovo’s recognition. “You (Kosovo) cannot become anything without Serbia… Their position entirely depends […]
Read More →Merkel and Macron “must first mediate in Pristina” (The New York Times, B92, Blic)
The New York Times writes that German Chancellor Merkel and French President Macron should first mediate between Thaci and Haradinaj. The daily says that Merkel and Macron are to have “any hope of easing tensions between Kosovo and Serbia, and breaking a deadlock in talks on the normalization of relations” – then “analysts say they […]
Read More →Blagojevic: The Kosovo problem and the elections as joint vessels (N1)
Correspondent of the Belgrade based news agency Beta from Brussels, Dragan Blagojevic told N1 that the international dimension of the Kosovo problem is reflected in the internal plan – elections. “Obviously, this is double-tied, as merged vessels. I see the postponement of the decision on elections in function, among other things, not only of internal […]
Read More →Vesna Mikic: Democracy in Kosovo is just an illusion (RTV Puls, KIM radio)
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj dismissed Vesna Mikic yesterday from the post of the Deputy Minister of Justice, whereby he stated that there is “no room for individuals, regardless of their ethnicity in the Kosovo government and Kosovo institutions that can undermine a common Euro-Atlantic values,” reports KIM radio. Mikic responded, regarding her dismissal, that […]
Read More →Verbal conflicts between Srpska Lista and the SLS escalate into a physical confrontation (KoSSev)
A physical altercation occurred yesterday in a restaurant in Pristina between the leader of the Independent Liberal Party, Slobodan Petrovic and a member of Serbian List (SL), Milan Kostic. The SLS and SL made contradictory allegations of who attacked whom, but also of who gave a statement and who was detained by the Kosovo Police. […]
Read More →Opposition leader slams President Vucic over Belgrade-Pristina talks (N1, Danas)
Anyone who feels shame would either resign or withdraw from the talks on Kosovo which deteriorated the status of Serbia, opposition leader Dragan Djilas said in a letter he sent to President Aleksandar Vucic, suggesting that the talks should involve someone “more intelligent, capable and fair.” The letter came as a response after, as Djilas […]
Read More →Vllasi: Annexation of Presevo valley to Kosovo not realistic (N1, Beta)
Albanian political analyst Azem Vllasi said that the annexation of the Presevo valley to Kosovo is not a realistic option. Vllasi, a senior communist official in Kosovo during the 1980s, said that the annexation of that part of southern Serbia is something that everyone in Kosovo wants. He told Pristina-based KTV that President Hashim Thaci’s […]
Read More →Vulin: Haradinaj “trying to provoke conflict with Serbs” (B92, RTS, Beta, Tanjug)
“The provisional Pristina institutions PM saying that the so-called ‘Kosovo Army’ could enter the north of Kosovo is a threat to the entire region’s peace,” stated Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin. He told the public broadcaster, RTS, that the Serbian Army was “confident, strong and capable of preserving peace and stability throughout the country.” Vulin […]
Read More →Serbia’s Interior Minister warns Kosovo Premier not to even think of violence (N1, Tanjug, Srna)
Serbia’s Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic warned the Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, not to even think of using force against Serbs in Kosovo, because Serbia will know how to respond. Commenting on Haradinaj’s statement that “Kosovo’s army would be deployed to the north if the border is threatened,” Stefanovic said that this clearly shows how […]
Read More →Jeremic: Serbs will never accept Kosovo as an independent state (RTK2, Beta)
Vuk Jeremic, the leader of the People’s Party and one of the leaders of the Alliance for Serbia, stated that most of the Serbs would never accept Kosovo as an independent state. Jeremic said this during lectures at the Diplomatic Academy of Georgetown University, quoted RTK2 the National Party of Serbia statement. Recall that he […]
Read More →Vucic: Serbs from Kosovo requested a permission to leave all Kosovo institutions (N1, Serbian media)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the representatives of the Kosovo Serbs, both from the south and from the north, asked from him to leave all the Kosovo institutions and added that he asked them to wait for an answer for a maximum of 45 days, in order to have the opportunity to speak with […]
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