Palmer canceled participation in Belgrade Security Forum (Serbian media)
Serbian media reports that Western Balkans State Department Special Representative Matthew Palmer cancelled participation in Belgrade Security Forum, taking place October 16-18. Matthew Palmer was scheduled to address the official opening of the Belgrade Security Forum on Thursday 17 October on “Sustainable Solutions for the Western Balkans”. German diplomat in charge of the Western Balkans […]
Read More →Palmer told me who would form Kosovo Govt. two months ago, says Serbian FM Dacic (Beta, N1)
Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Monday that the US representative to the Western Balkans Matthew Palmer told him two months ago that Washington expected Kosovo opposition politicians Albin Kurti and Isa Mustafa would form a new government, the Belgrade based news agency Beta reports. Dacic told reporters, after the 19th Economic Summit held […]
Read More →Bieber and Judah on Grenell’s appointment: Not a good sign (B92)
Serbian media quoted Balkan experts Florian Bieber and Tim Judah, who expressed surprise at the announced appointment of Richard Grenell as special envoy for negotiations. Professor at the University of Grazz, Bieber wondered what the role of Matthew Palmer was, the recently appointed US Secretary of State’s Special Representative for the Balkans. “If Trump appoints […]
Read More →Danas: Talks on Kosovo in the future in ‘troika’ form
Negotiations on Kosovo in the future “likely to be in troika form” in Brussels, diplomats from EU headquarters told Belgrade based daily Danas. As they explain, this implies that “in addition to representatives of Belgrade and Pristina, the United States Special Envoy for the Western Balkans, Matthew Palmer, the EU Special Envoy for those negotiations, […]
Read More →Danas: Vucic and Palmer to talk during the UN General Assembly
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer next week in New York, during a session of the United Nations General Assembly, diplomatic circles say to Belgrade based daily Danas. Sources of Danas state that Vucic is due to leave for New York on September 23, and according […]
Read More →Vucic, Palmer discuss Kosovo, agree to meet soon (FoNet, N1)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had a telephone conversation with US Deputy Assistant State Secretary Matthew Palmer, a statement from the president’s cabinet said on Monday. Vucic and Palmer agreed to meet again in the next 10 days and this telephone conversation continues their recent meeting in New York, the statement said. It added that the […]
Read More →Palmer is old acquaintance, but it won’t be easy for him, FM Dacic says (FoNet, N1)
Ivica Dacic, Serbia’s Foreign Minister, said on Tuesday the chance for resumption of the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue on the normalisation of relations appeared, but not before new Kosovo’s Government was formed after October 6 election, the FoNet news agency reported. Speaking after meeting Matthew Palmer in Bled, Slovenia, at the sidelines of the Western […]
Read More →Serbia, Kosovo FMs expect US envoy to play positive role (N1, KoSSev)
The Foreign Ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, Ivica Dacic and Behgjet Pacolli, told the Bled Security Forum that Belgrade-Pristina relations need to be normalized and added that they expect Matthew Palmer, Washington‘s new envoy for the Western Balkans to play a positive role in restarting their dialogue. Speaking at the Forum on Tuesday, Palmer said […]
Read More →Serbian ambassador says Palmer should not have agreed to be special envoy (N1)
Serbia’s Ambassador to Russia Miroslav Lazanski said on Tuesday that US diplomat Matthew Palmer should not have agreed to be special envoy for the Western Balkans. “If he had studied history a little he should not have accepted. All envoys either died or were dismissed, from Richard Holbrooke to Hoyt Lee. I don’t know of […]
Read More →Bled forum starts today: Dacic on the sidelines of a forum with Palmer (Blic)
The traditional Bled Strategic Forum, which begins today in Bled, Slovenia, will be dedicated this year to stability in the region, sustainable development and economic prosperity. Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic represents Serbia. The two-day gathering ”Sources of (in) Stability” will bring together a number of senior EU officials from the Western Balkans, Turkey, the US […]
Read More →Vucic: Aleksandar Vucic is the strongest point of resistance against an independent Kosovo without compromise (KoSSev, TV Pink)
Serbia’s internal state – primarily when it comes to the opposition, is the result of foreign services’ attempts to complicate Serbia’s position on the issue of negotiations – the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic said last night on the Hit Tvit talk-show on Belgrade based TV Pink. During his guest appearance on Pink TV, Vucic […]
Read More →Status quo impossible, warns US ambassador to Serbia (Serbian media)
US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott warned on Monday that the status quo in the Balkans is not sustainable. There will be no better time than the present to negotiate an agreement the ambassador wrote on his Twitter account over a retweet of State Department official Matthew Palmer’s speech at a gathering in Pristina on […]
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