Serbian FM: Don’t come for Trepca, don’t play with fire (Tanjug, B92)
All international factors have been told clearly that any military intervention undermining the Brussels deal with NATO and KFOR would cause Serbia’s reaction. Serbian Foreign Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic said this on Wednesday. “Everyone knows well that no one must play with fire and expect Serbia not to react. Serbia will react,” […]
Read More →Dacic: Serbia warned NATO, we will react if Serbs are attacked (TV Pink, Tanjug, B92)
There is no unified appeal by the international community to Pristina to revoke the tariffs on goods from Serbia, and that is why they remain in force, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic told TV Pink. He added the US has been interested in the tariffs to be revoked and the dialogue to continue, because […]
Read More →Germany Must Stop Dangerous Drive to Partition Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
As the US and the EU foreign policy chief up their pressure on Kosovo to change its borders with Serbia, Germany must stand up for the principle that redrawing borders on ethnic lines is wrong. For two decades, European countries have worked closely with the United States to implement and safeguard a fragile peace in […]
Read More →Kosovo ‘knowingly’ deported wrong man to Turkey (Pristina Insight)
Kosovo authorities knowingly deported to Turkey a man with a similar name to someone wanted by Ankara for alleged links to a movement led by the exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, says a Kosovo parliamentary report obtained by BIRN, The Kosovo authorities, despite being informed in advance, mistakenly deported a man called Hasan Hysein Gunakan to […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 12 March
Opposition fails to put Resolution to voting due to lack of quorum (KTV)
Kosovo Platform makes Serbia angry (KTV)
Isufi: Tariff against Serbia will not be suspended (RTK)
Rasic: Belgrade manipulating Kosovo Serbs (GazetaExpress)
Tahiri: Corruption and crime is destroying our state (KTV)
Extraordinary session on CEC’s blocking by President on Wednesday (KTV)
Blic: Albanians preparing to invade Trepca, KFOR knows it? (Blic, Tanjug, B92)
Kosovo authorities plan to have special police units storm in and take over the Trepca (mining complex) plant in the north of Kosovo and Metohija. That is according to a report in Belgrade-based daily Blic, carried by Tanjug on Wednesday. The daily said Kosovo Albanians would in that way infiltrate into the majority Serb part […]
Read More →Why do they try to scare us? (Radio KIM)
There are different warnings on alleged conflicts arriving from Belgrade over the last couple of months, including those about “possible attacks against the Serbs in the north” and “tensions” created by Pristina. Such statements can be heard almost on a daily basis from the Serbian President, Foreign Affairs Minister, members of Srpska Lista, and also […]
Read More →Haradinaj reacts to Mogherini: Dialogue was derailed before tariffs (Indeksonline)
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj took to Twitter today to comment on a statement by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini who said on Tuesday that she would call dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina as soon as the latter lifts the import tariff on Serbian goods. Haradinaj tweeted: “dialogue was derailed long before tariffs were introduced. […]
Read More →Nenad Popovic: Aim of NATO aggression failed, Kosovo is Serbian (Tanjug, B92)
It is clear the goal because of which Serbia was bombarded in 1999 has not been fulfilled, and Kosovo remains Serbian, also thanking to the efforts of Russia that did not allow changes of the Resolution 1244. This is according to the Serbian Minister for Innovations and Technological Development, Nenad Popovic. “Today, we can see […]
Read More →Serbia-EurAsian Union agree text of free trade agreement (BETA, TV N1)
The trade ministers of Serbia and the EurAsian Union, Rasim Ljajic and Veronika Nikishina agreed on the final draft of a free trade agreement at Tuesday’s meeting in Moscow, BETA news agency reported. Ljajic told BETA that they agreed on a “modern agreement on free trade in line with the rules of the World Trade […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 13 March
• Haradinaj: All international allies are calling for tariff to be lifted (media)
• Mogherini ready to call dialogue as soon as tariff is revoked (RTK)
• Tahiri: We won’t allow relations with U.S. to be threatened (media)
• Isufi: Serbia should be pressured, 100-percent tariff remains (Klan)
• PDK’s unserious threats for elections (Zeri)
• Vucic: We won’t recognize Kosovo with its current borders (Zeri/Prva)
• Sfecla: We were compromised in the case of six Turkish nationals (Zeri)
• Konjufca: Thaci is behind deportation of Turkish nationals (Express/Bota Sot)
• Cuni on Turkish nationals’ deportation: AKI was misused for illegal acts (media)
• Kosovo Assembly to hold another extraordinary session today (media)
• UN and EU jointly host Global Open Day on Women, Peace and Security (RTK)
• Tahiri calls on women to use activism to prevent border correction ideas (Koha)
• Mogherini offers support to Kosovo survivors of sexual violence (media)
• Chief Executive Officer of World Jewish Congress visits Kosovo (media)
• Assembly President Veseli travels for an official visit to Japan (RTK)