Blic: September “could be key month to resolve Kosovo issue” (B92)
September could be a key month in resolving the Kosovo issue, writes the daily Blic. The newspaper writes that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will travel to China after visiting to Kosovo, and will then go to New York, where he will speak at the United Nations. As the solution enters the final stage, Serbia’s president […]
Read More →Fatherland Movement: Vucic is truly fighting not for southern Serbian Province, but for creation of Greater Albania (NSPM)
In a press statement issued this week, Fatherland Movement pointed out that “the message of Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade Li Manchang to the Serbian authorities not to hurry to resolve the status of Kosovo and Metohija is a sincere and friendly advice”, because “they waited for nearly a hundred years to take back Macau from […]
Read More →“For China, Kosovo is Serbia, and so it shall remain” (Tanjug, B92)
Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Li Manchang has said that as far as Beijing is concerned, Kosovo is Serbia – and that it shall remain that way. Ambassador Li noted that the presidents of Serbia and China, Aleksandar Vucic and Xi Jinping, will have a meeting in China during a gathering known as the Summer Davos. […]
Read More →Could Ex-President Nikolic be Serbia’s Comeback Kid? (Balkan Insight)
By: Milan Simurdic If Serbia’s path towards the EU hits a blockage and the country shifts toward Russia and China, former president Tomislav Nikolic could conceivably stage a political resurrection. One year after he left the presidential office, Serbia’s former head of state, Tomislav Nikolic, is far from the public horizon. He did, however, take […]
Read More →About 60 foreign services are active in Serbia, says expert (Tanjug, B92)
Serbia is targeted by intelligence services of some 60 countries, which plan subversive acts, fake news, and disturbance of the public. This is according to professor Milan Mijalkovski, former dean at the Faculty of Security, who told the daily Politika that “everything that is happening in Serbia can also be observed through some internal reason, […]
Read More →Vucic: ”Do you think that the KiM issue can be resolved without great powers?” (Serbian media)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says that Serbia is working on continuation of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina in the same format, under the auspices of the EU, but this problem cannot be solved without great powers, reports Belgrade based daily Blic. Responding to a question from journalists after the opening of the Lidl Logistics […]
Read More →Drecun: We are not satisfied with the overall result of EULEX (RTS)
Chairman of the Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun told RTS that if an agreement is reached with Pristina, which will regulate the final status of Kosovo, it will be necessary for Serbia’s citizens to declare on it. He points out that EULEX ending its mission ”in the southern Serbian province on June […]
Read More →RF on secret training at US base, US on Kosovo recognitions (BETA, Tanjug, B92)
Russia and China have once again opposed initiatives coming from some UN Security Council members to change the format of the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK. They hold the same position when it comes to attempts to change the format of the Council’s sessions dedicated to Kosovo. In this way, they supported Serbia’s stance on […]
Read More →“Republic of Kosovo’ project is obviously failing” (B92, Tanjug)
Russian and Chinese ambassadors spoke in favor of continuing the UNMIK mission in Kosovo, during Tuesday’s UN Security Council session dedicated to its work. At the same time, representatives of France, Great Britain and the United States called for it be abolished. Russia’s Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya said Moscow disagrees with the “very optimistic assessment” presented […]
Read More →Serbian interior minister attends Interpol General Assembly (Beta, B92)
Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic is in Beijing where he met with Chinese officials yesterday, Beta news agency reported. Stefanovic and Chinese officials “discussed ways on how to enhance relations and cooperation in the field of security.” Stefanovic met with Meng Jianzhu, Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission and Public Security Minister […]
Read More →Until October Washington and Berlin decide on envoys (Danas)
Belgrade based daily Danas writes today, based on unofficial diplomatic sources, that the United States and Germany are considering who will be their envoys in the next phase of the Brussels dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, and that it is expected that the decision on their names would be made and disclosed in a month time. […]
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