Office for KiM Director Djuric: “Kurti could easily carry the title of Kosovo Baron Münchhausen” (Serbian media)
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said last night that the “Greater Albania” project and the erasure of Serbia and Serbs from the map are the backbone of Albin Kurti’s program, saying that he does not want to talk to Serbs which were elected by Serbs’s votes. ”Kurti may not become […]
Read More →“If China, India and Russia do not recognize Kosovo, it will not achieve statehood” (B92, Tanjug)
Newly appointed EU Foreign Minister Joseph Borrell says Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is taking too long He added that the current situation cannot be continued and that an agreement must be reached, on which he will strongly engage, and will first visit Pristina, because, he says, he already knows Serbia well. “One thing is clear: Kosovo and […]
Read More →Vucic congratulate birthday to Russia’s Putin (Beta, N1)
Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s President congratulated Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin his 67th birthday and wished him “good health and personal happiness, as well as the strength, to continue to successfully represent Russia’s and the fraternal Russian nation’s interests,” the Beta news agency reported on Monday. In their phone conversation, the two leaders agreed to meet in […]
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 →Turkish President Erdoğan to Politika: Any agreement between Belgrade and Pristina is acceptable to us (Serbian media)
Ahead of his arrival in Belgrade, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with Politika that Turkey was ready to do its best to solve Kosovo’s problem. Erdoğan pointed out that an agreement that would be acceptable to both parties would also be acceptable to Turkey. In an interview for today’s edition of […]
Read More →Serbian List, an absolute winner in Sunday’s election for Kosovo’s assembly (KoSSev, RTS, B92, N1)
Among the Kosovo Serb parties, the absolute winner of this Kosovo election is the Serbian List party, portal KoSSev writes. This party has achieved its goal and won 10 out of 10 parliamentary seats reserved for the Serbian community and will be the only Serbian parliamentary party in the next Assembly of Kosovo (unless something […]
Read More →President Vucic last night: “Serbs showed love for Serbia – this is 10: 0” (B92, RTS, Tanjug)
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic held a conference last night at the Palace of Serbia declaring the Serbian List victory in Kosovo’s elections on Sunday 6 October. He said the Serbian List won more than 98 percent of votes in Serbian areas in Kosovo. “I have won, and I have participated in many different victories […]
Read More →Dodik: Russia and China should be asked to appoint their envoys in the Balkans (Kurir, N1)
Russia and China should be asked now to name their own special envoys in the Balkans, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said commenting on the appointment of Richard Grenell as Washington’s special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina talks, Serbian media carried on Sunday. “Serbia has no reason to be worried, it has a clear stance. It […]
Read More →Kosovo membership in Interpol would be political, says Serbian Internal Affairs Minister (RTS, TV Pink)
Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Friday that the Kosovo authorities want to use membership in Interpol to reinforce statehood not to improve their crime fighting capabilities. The minister told Belgrade based TV Pink that a decision to induct Kosovo into Interpol would be political and would jeopardize that international organization’s professionalism. “If […]
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 →Nebojsa Covic for TV Prva: “New Kosovo elite – distancing from the crime” (B92)
Former head of the Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija Nebojsa Covic points out that forthcoming elections are overture for a new Kosovo political elite. He told Prva TV in the morning program that the BBC’s prognosis was realistic and that four parties would enter Kosovo Parliament – Isa Mustafa’s Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), […]
Read More →Council of Europe discusses ROSU intrusion into northern Kosovo (Tanjug, B92)
On behalf of the Serbian Parliament delegation, Dubravka Filipovski stressed that Serbia strongly supports fight against corruption and organized crime At the meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg, an exchange of views was held on the intrusion of ROSU members into northern […]
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