President Vucic last night: “Serbs showed love for Serbia – this is 10: 0” (B92, RTS, Tanjug)
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic held a conference last night at the Palace of Serbia declaring the Serbian List victory in Kosovo’s elections on Sunday 6 October. He said the Serbian List won more than 98 percent of votes in Serbian areas in Kosovo. “I have won, and I have participated in many different victories […]
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 →US envoy to N1: Ideally, resumption of Kosovo talks before election campaign in Serbia
Pristina will have to lift the import tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia, and Belgrade will have to take some steps towards a compromise to resume the dialogue on the normalisation of relations, the US outgoing ambassador to Serbia Kayle Scott told N1 TV morning show on Tuesday. He said he hoped that after […]
Read More →Danas: Vucic and Palmer to talk during the UN General Assembly
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer next week in New York, during a session of the United Nations General Assembly, diplomatic circles say to Belgrade based daily Danas. Sources of Danas state that Vucic is due to leave for New York on September 23, and according […]
Read More →Belgrade urges US to ‘bring Pristina to reason’ (Beta, Blic, N1)
Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday that Belgrade counted on the US help and its wish to be constructive regarding the dialogue with Pristina on the normalisation of relations, but that Washington should “push” Pristina into the reason, the Beta news agency reported. In his comments on Matthew Palmer, the US special envoy […]
Read More →PM Brnabic: Continuation of the dialogue depends on the tax, not the election (TV Prva, B92, Tanjug, Radio Mitrovica Sever)
The continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue has nothing to do with the possible elections in Kosovo, but solely with taxes, said Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic this morning in morning TV Prva Show. Brnabic called the current political developments in Kosovo a farce, thus answering the question how the possible elections and political turmoil in […]
Read More →Taxes remain, no dialogue without Serbia’s recognition, Kosovo’s PM says (KoSSev, Beta, B92)
Ramush Haradinaj, Kosovo’s Prime Minister, told KoSSev portal that a solution for the normalisation of relations between Pristina and Belgrade was in Serbia’s recognition of Kosovo’s independence and that without it the import taxes would stay in place and there wouldn’t be any dialogue. In an interview with the KoSSev portal, based in Mitrovica north, […]
Read More →Food supplies in Kosovo only until the end of the week, what are the next moves of Belgrade (RTS)
Seven months after the introduction of a 100 per cent tax on goods from central Serbia, due to the intensified control of the Kosovo police, food supplies are at the end. Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic told Serbian state broadcaster that Serbia will internationally insist on […]
Read More →Residents of North Mitrovica believe that the tariffs will be abolished (RTK2)
RTK2 reported on Saturday that the decision on tariffs imposed by the Government of Kosovo on products from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in November last year was still in force. In the meantime, many international officials have called on authorities in Pristina to revoke this decision, and recently Head of the EU Office in […]
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