Serbian and Albanian analysts: Belgrade and Pristina far from agreement (Blic)
The October 6 elections have changed the political situation in Kosovo, one of the conclusions of the panel “Prospects for normalization and dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina” held in Belgrade, with participants – Serbian and Albanian analysts – who all agree that a final agreement between the two sides will not come anytime soon. Professor […]
Read More →Serbia’s President PR: Tough meeting with Grenell, Vucic takes minutes himself (TV Prva, Beta, N1)
Suzana Vasiljevic, Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic media advisor, said on Friday the meeting with Richard Grenell, the US head of state Donald Trump’s envoy to Kosovo, was challenging, but could not go into the details of the talks, the Beta news agency reported. Speaking to the Prva TV, Vasiljevic said the two spoke alone in […]
Read More →“If China, India and Russia do not recognize Kosovo, it will not achieve statehood” (B92, Tanjug)
Newly appointed EU Foreign Minister Joseph Borrell says Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is taking too long He added that the current situation cannot be continued and that an agreement must be reached, on which he will strongly engage, and will first visit Pristina, because, he says, he already knows Serbia well. “One thing is clear: Kosovo and […]
Read More →Turkish President Erdoğan to Politika: Any agreement between Belgrade and Pristina is acceptable to us (Serbian media)
Ahead of his arrival in Belgrade, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview with Politika that Turkey was ready to do its best to solve Kosovo’s problem. Erdoğan pointed out that an agreement that would be acceptable to both parties would also be acceptable to Turkey. In an interview for today’s edition of […]
Read More →Dodik: Russia and China should be asked to appoint their envoys in the Balkans (Kurir, N1)
Russia and China should be asked now to name their own special envoys in the Balkans, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik said commenting on the appointment of Richard Grenell as Washington’s special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina talks, Serbian media carried on Sunday. “Serbia has no reason to be worried, it has a clear stance. It […]
Read More →Bieber and Judah on Grenell’s appointment: Not a good sign (B92)
Serbian media quoted Balkan experts Florian Bieber and Tim Judah, who expressed surprise at the announced appointment of Richard Grenell as special envoy for negotiations. Professor at the University of Grazz, Bieber wondered what the role of Matthew Palmer was, the recently appointed US Secretary of State’s Special Representative for the Balkans. “If Trump appoints […]
Read More →Serbia needs agreement on Kosovo for EU integration process, says German envoy (TV Prva, Beta, N1)
The German Ambassador in Belgrade Thomas Schieb said on Wednesday that Serbia needs a comprehensive agreement with Kosovo to take what he called a decisive step in its European integration process. ”Germany wants to see the comprehensive agreement reached through a dialogue,” he told TV Prva adding that Serbia must resolve the Kosovo problem to […]
Read More →RFE: EU envoy for Belgrade-Pristina dialogue a certainty (Beta, N1)
The appointment of a European Union special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is a sure thing and the decision will probably be announced after the EU’s future top diplomat Josep Borrell adresses the European Parliament on October 7, Radio Free Europe said on Thursday quoting unnamed diplomatic sources in Brussels. Those sources said that Borrell, […]
Read More →Vucic reiterates Belgrade ready for talks with Pristina after tariffs are lifted (FoNet, N1)
Aleksandar Vucic, President of Serbia, confirmed that Serbia was ready to resume the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue on the normalization of relations as soon as Kosovo lifted the 100 percent import taxes on goods from Serbia and Bosnia introduced last November, the FoNet news agency reported. In a meeting with Matthew Palmer, the US special […]
Read More →Former US envoy to Serbia: Vucic ready to talk, not to sign document (Danas, FoNet, N1)
Cameron Munter, a former US ambassador to Serbia, told belgrade based daily Danas that President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic was ready to talk about an agreement on the normalisation of relations with Pristina, but not to “sign a paper”, quoted Serbian media. Munter said he believed it was okay since there were people in Kosovo […]
Read More →US envoy: Humiliation of partners in Kosovo dialogue doesn’t help (Blic, Beta, N1)
Outgoing US ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott said on Monday that Belgrade and Washington had a different opinion about Kosovo but that they agreed that the only way towards progress was the resumption of the dialogue on the normalisation of relations, the Beta news agency reported. In an interview with the Belgrade based daily Blic, […]
Read More →Drecun: Kosovo Albanians not ready to sit at the negotiating table (RTS)
Chairman of the Serbian Assembly Committee for KiM Milovan Drecun told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that the purpose of the elections in Kosovo is to stabilize the Albanian political scene, to build an executive that will be more unified on key political issues and have a firmer position for talks with Belgrade. Drecun adds […]
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