“How could Serbia react: To warn NATO?” (Sputnik, B92)
Pristina did not make the decision to move into action in the north of Kosovo on its own, Milovan Drecun and Nebojsa Covic opined, B92 writes referring to Sputnik portal report. Chairperson of the Serbian National Assembly Committee for Kosovo, Drecun and former head of the Coordination Centre for Kosovo and Metohija, Covic expect similar […]
Read More →Vucic: ”Goal of Pristina is arrest of the commander Zeljko Bojic” (Serbian media)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said today to journalists, after visiting the military gymnasium in Belgrade, that the ultimate goal of Pristina is the arrest of Kosovo police commander for northern Kosovo Zeljko Bojic, Serbian media reported. He said that yesterday’s Pristina’s incursion of Kosovo police special forces in the north of Kosovo and the arrest […]
Read More →KFOR: Serbian authorities were informed about police operation (RFE)
KFOR spokesperson Vincenzo Grasso said Serbian authorities were informed about yesterday’s Kosovo Police operation in the north. “I think they knew,” Grasso said adding: “During the operation we communicated with Kosovo institutions, the international community and Serbian authorities. We communicate with the [Serbian] army not the Government”. “We didn’t know ten days ago but [President […]
Read More →Kosovo artists searched at border crossing point with Serbia, Pacolli reacts (Kallxo)
A group of Kosovo artists and journalists travelling to Belgrade to take part in the “Miredita, Dobar Dan” annual festival, whose aim is to bring together people from Kosovo and Serbia through culture, have been thoroughly searched by authorities of Serbia at the border crossing point of Merdare. Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli reacted. “Condemn […]
Read More →Vucic on KFOR’s statement: Not accurate (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the situation of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija is more difficult today than yesterday, adding KFOR military mission is not neutral at all, Tanjug news agency reports. Asked to comment on KFOR’s spokesperson Vincenzo Grasso statement that the biggest threat to the peace in Kosovo are the rhetoric […]
Read More →B92: ”KFOR’s explanation, little tension yesterday, we all knew, we do not interfere” (TV Prva)
KFOR spokesman Vincenzo Grasso says that yesterday’s action of the Kosovo special police units was regular, and that in fact the biggest threat to peace are politicians and the media. Asked about the situation in Kosovo this morning, Grasso says it is under control. “Yesterday there was little tension, but luckily it was in isolated […]
Read More →Vecernje Novosti: “Pristina special forces lose confidential documents” (Vecernje Novosti, B92)
Kosovo police special forces made mistake during Tuesday’s raid in northern Kosovo, when they arrested 19 Serbs, Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti writes. The daily said that during the operation, that resulted in the battering of about 100 persons, several commanders of the said units lost confidential documents listing the raid’s operative details, along with the […]
Read More →Bishop Teodosije: We strongly condemn the use of force in North Kosovo (Raska-Prizren Eparchy, media)
“As the Bishop of Raška-Prizren, with our clergy, monastics, and faithful people, with great concern we condemn yesterday’s excessive use of force by the Kosovo Police in the north of Kosovo and Metohija,” Eparchy said in statement issued yesterday. “Regardless of the real motives of this action, beatings, breaking of furniture, incursions into houses where […]
Read More →Northern Serb mayors on yesterday’s police action (TV Most, B92)
Serb representatives from the north and Office for Kosovo and Metohija, in a special TV Most broadcast last night, said the latest brutal Pristina’s action will not expel the Serbs from Kosovo, B92 reports. Mayor of Mitrovica North Goran Rakic said that “in addition to the terror conducted by the Albanians, shooting in the back […]
Read More →Alliance for Serbia: Events in Kosovo result of failed Vucic’s policy (Danas)
Opposition Alliance for Serbia (SzS) said the latest events in Kosovo and Metohija are the result of President Aleksandar Vucic failed policy, adding it in many aspects resemble a joint direction of Haradinaj and Vucic that would bring good neither to Serbian nor Albanian people, Danas daily reports. “While “his businessmen” applaud him loudly from […]
Read More →”Negative reviews” about the state of democracy in Serbia (Danas)
According to Belgrade based daily Danas, Serbia is expected to have “very negative assessment” of the state of democracy. Some diplomats told Danas that “very negative reviews” will be found in the segment relating to the “state of democracy,” referring to the European Commission’s Progress Report on Serbia’s progress towards EU membership, to be presented […]
Read More →Rada Trajkovic: Experiment with Serbs in Kosovo (Danas)
President of Serb European Movement from Kosovo and Metohija Rada Trajkovic said the arrest of police officers in the north of Kosovo was not ethnically motivated, but it was a fight against the crime that President Aleksandar Vucic should support, adding she was worried over ‘the experiment’ being conducted with the Serbs in northern Kosovo, […]
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