Kosovo-Serbia Deal – Saving Faces or Saving Borders (Balkan Insight)
By: Gezim Krasniqi The contradictory reactions to proposals to resolve the Kosovo issue through border changes has exposed the international community’s confusion over what its priorities are. Recent announcements by the presidents of Serbia and Kosovo, that they are considering border changes to reach a historic peace settlement, have sent shockwaves across the region. Speaking […]
Read More →Bosnia Offers Lessons for Kosovo Land-Swap Talks (Balkan Insight)
Advocates of territorial exchange as a solution to the Serbia-Kosovo dispute should remember that Bosnia’s de-facto partition, at Dayton in 1995, has failed to bring about true stability. See at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/bosnia-offers-lessons-for-kosovo-land-swap-talks-09-10-2018
Read More →Kosovo-Serbia Deal ‘Not Even Close’ Vucic Says (Balkan Insight)
On his two-day visit to Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic denied the two countries were near a solution to their dispute, and was prevented from visiting a Serb-majority village. “Do we have any draft solutions in Brussels? We do not, we are not even close to it,” President Aleksandar Vucic said in a speech before […]
Read More →Serbian President Cancels Meeting With Kosovo Counterpart (Balkan Insight)
Although it had been announced that the Serbian and Kosovo presidents would meet on Friday to continue their EU-led dialogue, Serbia’s leader has now called off the meeting – while his visit to Kosovo this weekend is also in doubt. After separate bilateral meetings between the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and the presidents […]
Read More →US Serbs Urge Congress to Reject Kosovo Partition (Balkan Insight)
Serbian-American right-wing diaspora organisations and clergymen wrote a letter to the US Congress and administration opposing any exchange of territories between Serbia and Kosovo. Leaders of Serbian Orthodox congregations and Serbian-American organisations have appealed to Congress members and the US administration to protect the rights of Kosovo Serbs and expressed “strong opposition to the proposed […]
Read More →Kosovo Serbs Complain of ‘Pressure’ to Attend Vucic Rally (Balkan Insight)
Ahead of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s Kosovo visit, there are reports of Kosovo Serbs who work for Belgrade-funded institutions being compelled to attend his rally. Some Kosovo Serb representatives say that employees of institutions funded by Serbia in Kosovo are being pressured to attend a rally in support of President Aleksandar Vucic, and fear reprisals […]
Read More →Kosovo’s Rival Leaders Both “Machiavellian,” ex-Adviser Says (Balkan Insight)
President Hashim Thaci and Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj may strongly disagree on ‘border correction’ – but both leaders are using the issue for their own benefits, a former adviser to Thaci says. Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and the Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, are trying to benefit politically from their dispute over potential “border corrections” as […]
Read More →Dodik Says Kosovo Minister is Unwelcome in Bosnia (Balkan Insight)
The Bosnian Serb leader has condemned the visit this week to Bosnia of Behgjet Pacolli, Kosovo’s Foreign Minister, for a regional cooperation meeting. Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik has said the announced visit of Kosovo Foreign Minister Pacolli to Banja Luka – for Wednesday’s gathering of foreign ministers of member states of the South East […]
Read More →Kosovo’s Constitution Rules Out Land Swap, Says Ex-President (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo’s former President Fatmir Sejdiu told BIRN that redrawing the country’s borders in a deal with Serbia would contravene the constitution and could spark trouble across the Balkan region. See more at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-s-constitution-rules-out-land-swap-says-ex-president-08-28-2018
Read More →Kosovo Likely to Overshadow Serbian Church Synod (Balkan Insight)
Ahead of an announced referendum on Kosovo, the former province is likely to be high on the agenda of the upcoming Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church – a staunch opponent of Kosovo’s independence. Kosovo is likely to be a hot issue at the upcoming Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which has taken a […]
Read More →Kosovo Protesters Seek Chief Prosecutor’s Resignation (Balkan Insight)
As the row over the war veterans’ list rumbles on, Kosovo citizens took to the streets on Wednesday to demand the dismissal the Chief Prosecutor Aleksander Lumezi – alleging that he had undermined the investigation into the issue. A street protest joined by opposition party supporters in Pristina on Wednesday demanded the resignation of the […]
Read More →Kosovo Serb Journalists Remembered 20 Years After Disappearance (Balkan Insight)
The fate of two Radio Pristina journalists is still not known, two decades since they disappeared. Serbian journalists on Tuesday marked two decades since the unexplained disappearance of two colleagues on a road in western Kosovo during the 1998-99 war in the former southern Serbian province. The fate of Radio Pristina journalists Djuro Slavuj and […]
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