Missing Persons: Balkan Families Suffer as Search Goes On (Balkan Insight)
To mark International Day of the Disappeared, relatives of people who went missing in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and Albania during the 1990s wars or under Communism describe the agony of waiting decades to discover their loved ones’ fate. See more at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/missing-persons-balkan-families-suffer-as-search-goes-on-08-29-2018
Read More →Serbia Must Hold Kosovo Deal Referendum, Experts Say (Balkan Insight)
Serbian law experts say that any final deal with Kosovo, changing the country’s borders, will affect the constitution and must therefore go to a referendum. As Serbian leaders hint at a referendum on the future status of Kosovo, legal experts insists that the status of the former province must be regulated by changes to Serbia’s […]
Read More →President Thaci is coordinating with the Americans (RTK)
The news website reports that Kosovo President, Hashim Thaci, is coordinating every step with the United States of America. Thaci met today with U.S. ambassadors in Pristina and Belgrade, and in the afternoon had a telephone conversation with the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Wess Mitchell. Thaci wrote in a Facebook post that with Mitchell […]
Read More →Moscow says Lavrov-Pompeo meeting next month in the works (ABC News, AP)
A senior Russian diplomat says Moscow is working on a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters Thursday that Moscow and Washington are discussing a possible meeting at the U.N. General Assembly in New Rork next month but that they haven’t agreed […]
Read More →REKOM: Determine the accuracy of information about the mass grave (B92, N1, KiM radio)
Read More →REKOM: Determine the accuracy of information about the mass grave (B92, N1, KiM radio)
The Coalition for REKOM invited the competent authorities of Serbia to determine the accuracy of information about the existence of a mass grave in the village of Medevce, 30 meters from the road Leskovac – Pristina. A site suspected of being a mass grave is one kilometre and a half from the administrative crossing of […]
Read More →Mogherini: EU in the Balkans is entering a second phase (Koha)
EU High Representative, Federica Mogherini, said in today’s meeting of EU defense ministers in Vienna, that the role of the EU in the Balkans has been to create security. “Traditionally, we have viewed the Western Balkans as a region of instability where for many years, decades even, the EU had the role of security provider. […]
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