“I will not keep silent at lies, at the price of sacking” says Dacic explaining what provoked him to ”attack” Vlora Citaku in New York (Blic, B92, Tanjug, N1)
”I did not attack Vlora Citaku, but I told her that what she said at the session of the UN Security Council was the greatest embarrassment and stupidity,” says Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic to Belgrade based daily Blic. In this way, he clarifies what happened at the session yesterday, after he referred […]
Read More →Stoltenberg: The bombing was not taken lightly, but it was legitimate and necessary (Politika, Beta, N1)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Belgrade based daily Politika that peace and stability in Kosovo has been a priority for this alliance for past 20 years and that the UN mandate for the NATO peacekeeping mission remains unchanged. “For this region, a stable Kosovo is important. For 20 years, peace and stability in Kosovo […]
Read More →Dacic, US Embassy, Benjamin Franklin, Kosovo (Blic, FoNet, N1, Sputnik)
Ivica Dacic, Serbia’s Foreign Minister, told Russian Sputnik news agency he did not destroy the 100 dollars banknote by writing “Kosovo is Serbia” on it, nor did he insult Benjamin Franklin, an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the US, but followed Franklin’s essential idea, who also had a wise message that […]
Read More →UK ambassador to Serbia: UK and Serbia have complex relations, but share common values (Beta, N1, RTV, Blic)
The outgoing UK ambassador to Serbia Denis Keefe said on Thursday that his country and Serbia have a complex relationship, but that the two countries share common values, the Beta news agency reported. Keefe said, visiting the Vojvodina RTV Show Pravi Ugao (Right Angle), that British suggestion of the resolution on Srebrenica in the UN […]
Read More →RFE: Thirteen EU members demand expansion to Western Balkans (N1, Blic)
The European Union countries consider a non-paper regarding the bloc’s enlargement to include the Western Balkans as still a credible option, with 13 member states supporting the idea, Radio Free Europe (RFE) reported on Thursday. RFE had insight into the document which, among other things, said that EU should confirm its explicit dedication to the […]
Read More →Dacic: Dialogue on resuscitation (Blic, N1)
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said yesterday that the dialogue with Pristina was on resuscitation and that the continuation depends on the “reanimator”, that was, those who should inhale a life into it, reported Belgrade based daily Blic. At a news conference after meeting with Miroslav Lajcak, Dacic said that Pristina had the goal of obstructing […]
Read More →”Chepurin and Tanin about the attack on UNMIK official” (Blic, Twitter)
Ambassador of Russia to Belgrade Alexander Chepurin met yesterday the head of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Zahir Tanin. Chepurin told Tanin that Russia counts that the UN will take all measures to investigate the recent attack on a Russian citizen, UNMIK’s official Mikhail Krasnoshchekov, reported Belgrade based daily Blic, quoting Chepurin’s post on […]
Read More →Vucic to Tanin: Pristina provokes and disables dialogue with Belgrade (Beta, N1, RTS, Blic)
In the meeting with Zahir Tanin, the UN Mission in Kosovo chief, Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s President, accused Pristina of making irrational and unilateral moves and of constantly provoking, showing that its leaders were making the dialogue with Belgrade impossible, the Beta news agency carried a statement from President’s office on Tuesday. The statement said Vucic […]
Read More →Vucic: Paris meeting, if it happens, more important than UN session (RTS, FoNet, N1)
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic told the Serbian state broadcaster on Monday that the next week’s UN Security Council session on Kosovo would be less important than a meeting in Paris with the same issue on the agenda in July “if it happens,” the FoNet news agency reported. Vucic added he had information Washington was […]
Read More →Sessions devoted to laying the oath of four mayors in the North of Kosovo have been cancelled (Blic, Srna)
The sessions of the municipal assembly Zubin Potok, northern Mitrovica, Zvecan and Leposavic, were cancelled, reports daily Blic, quoting Srna agency. Mayors were supposed to take oath and take over duties in the four Serbian majority municipalities in the North. “Sessions are cancelled until further notice, and about the reasons for the cancellation will be […]
Read More →Salvini: Serbia as a part of the EU is an interesting idea; Orban for even better relations with Serbia (Blic)
Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said yesterday, after the European Parliament elections, that he met President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and assessed as interesting the idea of Serbia being a part of the EU, while opposing the idea of Turkey’s entry, reports Belgrade based daily Blic. Salvini’s far-right League party won 33,8 per cent […]
Read More →Survey: What citizens of Serbia think about the solution to the Kosovo issue (Blic, B92, TV Most)
The latest survey of the Belgrade based agency Faktor Plus, in cooperation with daily Blic, shows that the citizens of Serbia are not optimistic about the solution of the Kosovo problem, they do not expect Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to sign the recognition of Kosovo, and most of them think that the problem will not […]
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