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 →French President will visit Serbia in mid-July (FoNet, N1)
Emmanuel Macron, French President, will come to Belgrade in mid-July to confirm good political relations and strengthen the economic links between the two countries, French ambassador to Serbia Frederic Mondoloni said on Thursday, the FoNet news agency reported. Macron was due in Serbia last November but had to postpone the visit due to the wave […]
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 →Slovak FM Lajcak says OSCE monitoring situation in Kosovo (N1, FoNet, Beta)
Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak told Serbia’s heads of state and government that his country, as chair of the OSCE, is carefully monitoring the situation in Kosovo and will continue providing assistance and support to Serbia on its path to the European Union. Lajcak told President Aleksandar Vucic that the Western Balkans is the focus […]
Read More →German soldiers to remain in KFOR, government says (N1, FoNet)
Germany will keep its soldiers in Kosovo as part of KFOR for another year because the situation there is unstable, Deutsche Welle reported. The German government took the decision to keep the Bundeswehr troops in KFOR because it feels that the potential exists for conflicts, especially in the north of Kosovo, it said. The number […]
Read More →Vucic says Patriarch understands his worries about Kosovo (N1, Beta, FoNet)
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic said late on Monday he informed the Holy Synod of the Serb Orthodox Church about “all my worries,” adding Patriarch Irinej, who said Vucic’s fight for Kosovo was heroic, understood him well, N1 reported. Vucic was present at the Holy Synod annual meeting in the Patriarchy in Belgrade. “Patriarch perfectly understood […]
Read More →Regimes in Western Balkans say want firmer relations with West, but act contra, panel concludes (VoA, FoNet, N1)
The Washington John Hopkins University’s panel “Western Balkans (WB): Managing the Challenges” dealt with the regional leaders’ real readiness to get closer to the West, adding it should more clearly criticise the WB’s regimes, the Voice of America (VOA) reported on Thursday, as carried by the FoNet news agency. Florian Bieber, a professor of inter-ethnic […]
Read More →Pristina position exclusively depends on Belgrade, Serbia’s Vucic says (FoNet, Beta, N1)
Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s President, said in Berlin on Tuesday Kosovo could not consolidate itself as a state without Serbia, the Belgrade-based news agency reported. He said Serbia had been internationally recognised country and a UN member state, so it did not need Kosovo’s recognition. “You (Kosovo) cannot become anything without Serbia… Their position entirely depends […]
Read More →KFOR Commander: Albanian soldiers won’t be deployed in north Kosovo (FoNet, N1)
The Commander of the US Bondsteel base in Kosovo Colonel Roy Macaraeg denied on Wednesday rumors that 500 Albanian soldiers would be positioned in the KFOR Nothing Hill camp in the north and said that 70-strong international force would remain there, the FoNet news agency reported. The Colonel said that some 800 US, Polish, Turkish […]
Read More →Embassies: March 24 was the day when diplomacy failed (N1, FoNet)
We remember March 24 as the day when diplomacy failed and we sincerely regret the civilian casualties during the 1999 events, said the Joint Statement of Condolence of representatives of embassies of Canada, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States of America State. “We share the pain with all […]
Read More →Kosovo: Of nearly 5,000 officials, 498 reported on their assets (Danas, FoNet, RTK2)
Director of the Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency Shaip Havolli announced that a much wider circle of people will have to report their assets as of next year, including inspectors, public procurement officers, professors, doctors, customs officials and officials of the Tax Administration of Kosovo, reported Belgrade based daily Danas, quoting RTK2. Since March 1st, the process […]
Read More →No democratic country can allow violence, Serbia’s Vucic tells Europeans (N1, FoNet)
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic told the European Council on Foreign Relations on Monday his country was a democratic state and that he was satisfied when people could protest peacefully, but that country could not allow violence, the FoNet news agency reported. A statement from Vucic’s office said he was happy that people were free to […]
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