Vucic: I am not optimist, but Belgrade will not give up dialogue with Pristina (BETA, Telegraf, RTS)
Beta news agency reported today Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he was not optimistic about the upcoming talks with Pristina representatives in Brussels, but that Belgrade would not give up on dialogue, since talks are the only solution towards a compromise. “The talks in Brussels are ahead of us. I am not an optimist, but […]
Read More →Scott: EULEX is leaving, but KFOR and Kosovo police remain (Tanjug, RTS)
US Ambassador to Serbia, Kyle Scott commenting on EULEX departure from Kosovo and Metohija, said there are other ways to protect the Serbian people there, since KFOR and Kosovo police would remain, Tanjug news agency reported. “Kosovo police is there in the first plan. We saw over the last couple of days when some problems […]
Read More →Slain Kosovo Serb’s party urges investigation (BETA, TV N1)
The party of the assassinated Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic, the Civic Initiative SDP, urged today all investigative services and especially the EULEX, to intensify the probe into the January 16 murder. In a statement, they appealed to both Belgrade and Pristina institutions “to use their authority and not allow that the perpetrators remain anonymous and […]
Read More →Forensics to verify if discovered bodies belong to Serbs (Politika, B92, Tanjug)
There are at least five bodies discovered over the last three weeks nearby Djakovica town, however, their number could be higher, Serbian media reported. Chairperson of the Missing Persons Commission, Veljko Odalovic said there is reasonable doubt that these bodies belong to people listed as missing Serbs from Kosovo. Odalovic told Politika daily that international […]
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 →RTS: EULEX received court request, has no authority to arrest Laban (Radio Free Europe, Serbian media)
EULEX Mission stated it has received a request from the Serbian authorities in November last year to arrest Radomir Laban, who has been appointed by the Kosovo Assembly as a Constitutional Court judge, but the Mission given its current mandate cannot undertake such action, Serbian media reported. EULEX added they have informed Basic Court in […]
Read More →Thaci and Papadopoulou discuss end of EU mission (media)
President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, met today the head of EU Rule of Law Mission (EULEX), Alexandra Papadopoulou. A statement issued by Thaci’s office after the meeting, notes that the two officials discussed the ending of the EU mission. Thaci and Papadopoulou agreed that the letter exchange between Kosovo and EU institutions has been finalized […]
Read More →Kosovo Serb wanted by Serbian police and Interpol becomes judge in Pristina (N1, Insajder, Kossev, Vesti)
A Kosovo Serb, wanted by Belgrade and the Interpol was appointed a judge at the Constitutional Court in Pristina, the independent production Insajder has reported. Radomir Laban, convicted of taking a bribe and sentenced to six years in jail by a Belgrade court disappeared from the grid before he was due to go to prison […]
Read More →Trifunovic: Any hope lost some of missing persons could be alive (Radio kontakt plus)
Coordinator of Missing and Kidnapped Persons Families in Kosovo, Milorad Trifunovic told Radio kontakt plus destiny of 1654 persons still remains unknown, while 562 persons belong to the Serb and non-Albanian ethnicities. Trifunovic, whose brother was kidnapped in 1998, told the radio that any hope is lost some of the missing and kidnapped persons could […]
Read More →Serbs in Kosovo worried about EULEX departure (Blic)
Nearly 2 000 police officers, judges and prosecutors who worked for the EULEX mission in Kosovo in the past 10 years are withdrawing from Kosovo, and their responsibilities will be taken over by Kosovo institutions. Some Blic interlocutors point out that the gradual departure of KFOR soldiers can be expected, after which the space opens […]
Read More →Seventh attempt of journalists to place memorial plaque – We are searching for them (Radio kontakt plus)
The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) would today for the seventh time place a memorial plaque next to the Orahovac-Velika Hoca road, dedicated to the missing Radio Pristina journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenic, Radio kontakt plus reported. UNS press statement reads they placed six times a plaque with the inscription – Our colleagues, […]
Read More →UNSC meets on Kosovo: Pristina will not like Guterres report (B92, Tanjug, RTS)
A regular UN Security Council session on Kosovo will be held on Monday in New York. Serbia is represented by Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic. The session will discuss the UN secretary-general’s report on the work of the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, covering the period from January 17 to April 15. ”In his […]
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