Russia ready to back RS regarding status issue – report (Vecernje Novosti, B92)
Moscow is ready to back Republic of Srpska (RS) in raising the issue of its independence, especially in the context of the talks on a final solution for Kosovo. Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti writes this on Tuesday. According to the newspaper, this message should be handed over to the president of the Serb entity in […]
Read More →Judah: How will they act after Merkel’s statement against exchange of territories? (media)
Read More →Judah: How will they act after Merkel’s statement against exchange of territories? (media)
Tim Judah, Balkans correspondent for The Economist, tweeted on Monday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel “has come out strongly against exchange of territories between Serbia and Kosovo”. “As the Trump wing of the US administration seems to have been encouraging Vucic and Thaci to discuss it, it will be fascinating to see what they do […]
Read More →Hoti: Thaci’s proposal is feeding Serb hopes for Kosovo’s partition (media)
Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) parliamentary group chief, Avdullah Hoti, commented today on President Hashim Thaci’s proposal for “border adjustments”, online media report. Hoti took to Facebook to argue that Thaci’s proposal is feeding Serb hopes for Kosovo’s partition. “The President’s controversial proposal for border adjustments has damaged our and the international community’s efforts to […]
Read More →Decan – Plave road construction ongoing, outside special protective zone (Lajmi)
Construction on the Decan – Plave road is ongoing according to plan despite remarks and pressure from different actors about the special protective zone around Decan Monastery, the news website reports. EU heads of missions issued a joint media statement recently noting that “while the EU recognizes the value of roads that link communities, applicable […]
Read More →Impunity for crimes targeting journalists in Kosovo (B92, CoE, EFJ, UNS)
It has been close to twenty years since the killings, kidnappings and disappearances of 14 Serbian and Albanian journalists in Kosovo. These crimes happened between 1998 and 200, and no one has been brought to justice, the Council of Europe (CoE) has stated on its website. During the Annual Meeting of the European Federation of […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 14 August
• Merkel: No change of borders in the Balkans (dailies)
• Thaci continues to promote ‘border adjustment’ idea (media)
• Arifi: Technical dialogue with Serbia ‘clinically dead’ (Telegrafi)
• Kurti: Talk of territory leads closer to war than to peace (VOA/Zeri)
• Ahmeti: Debate on border correction, more imagined than concrete (Epoka)
• Rakic: No one should touch competencies of Serb municipalities (RTK)
• “Mogherini to be dismissed if she participated in partition talks” (RFE/Koha)
• Kosovo’s MFA: Serbia to distance itself from Milosevic’s policies (RTK)
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