New EU diplomatic head pledges focus on Balkans, Russia (Al Jazeera)
Josep Borrell urges bloc to stand firm on economic sanctions against Moscow until there is ‘tectonic change’ in Kremlin. The European Unions’s incoming foreign affairs chief said on Monday he would focus on the Balkans and Europe’s eastern neighbours, while urging the bloc to stand firm on sanctions against Russia. See at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/eu-diplomatic-head-pledges-focus-balkans-russia-191007170121590.html
Read More →Raskovic Ivic: The division of KiM would lead to the exodus of Serbs living south of the Ibar (Danas)
People’s Party Vice President Sanda Raskovic Ivic says that “delineation” with Kosovo Albanians is unconstitutional and that, if that happens, the leaders of the current regime will be responsible when the authority change and that the division of Kosovo leads to the exodus of Serbs living south of the Ibar River. “The so-called delineation is mentioned […]
Read More →Montenegrin opposition leaders, Dodik to meet Putin in Belgrade; Erdogan on the Dayton agreement (B92, Al Jazeera, Beta, Glas Srpske)
Leaders of Montenegro’s opposition Democratic Front Andrija Mandic and Milan Knezevic will attend the lunch that the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will organize for Vladimir Putin. The Russian president will arrive in Serbia on Thursday to a formal visit. Beta agency reports on Wednesday that Belgrade, but also “international circles”, perceived the visit as “one […]
Read More →Roma in Kosovo: The justice that never came (Al Jazeera)
Years after the Yugoslav wars, Roma still await justice for disappeared family and those lost in ‘revenge’ attacks. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/01/roma-kosovo-justice-170112134149767.html
Read More →Tomislav Nikolic: Serbia won’t align with East or West (Al Jazeera)
The president discusses Serbia’s non-alignment stance, why it will never recognise Kosovo, and its commitment to Russia. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2016/11/tomislav-nikolic-serbia-won-align-east-west-161124105054362.html
Read More →Kosovo protesters clash with police over Serbia deal (Al Jazzera)
Ethnic Albanian protesters have clashed with police in Kosovo after its government agreed to an EU-brokered deal that gives ethnic Serbs in the territory greater local powers. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/kosovo-protesters-clash-police-serbia-deal-160109181406086.html
Read More →Thousands attend counter-protest in Macedonia (Al Jazeera)
Tens of thousands of Macedonians have turned out to support Nikola Gruevski’s government in a counter-protest after opposition supporters marched through the capital Skopje a day earlier to demand the prime minister’s resignation. The opposition accuses Gruevski of corruption, tapping the phones of thousands of people and of fomenting ethnic tensions to hang on to […]
Read More →A painful wait to bury Kosovo’s war victims (Al Jazeera)
Remains of missing massacre victims killed during the 1998-99 conflict finally given a proper burial by their families. For 16 years in one small village in Kosovo’s central region, the relatives of missing war victims visited empty graves. Some had photographs, some did not. But it was at least a place where they could bring […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 10 April
• Thaci: Every country in the region has a Mitrovica (Zeri)
• Preteni: Judiciary, inefficient in combating corruption (Koha)
• Haliti criticizes PM Mustafa and KSF Commander Rama (Epoka)
• Vlora Citaku, the new Kosovo Ambassador in the U.S. (Zeri)
• Maric returns to work (Zeri)
• Gashi: Only in mafia states are bank accounts kept secret (RTK)