Vucic: Merkel in Serbia; I would have met with Thaci, if I’ve been invited
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Serbia As he said, she will visit Serbia in 2020, prior to expiration of her term of office. Aleksandar Vucic underlined after the meeting with Chancellor Merkel that they had discussed Kosovo, and economy. The president said that there’s no doubt that […]
Read More →Pantovic: Podujevo detainees almost completely isolated after police officers from the North were detained in the same facility (KoSSev)
The Serbs and non-Albanians detainees of the new prison complex in Grdovac near Podujevo have been in near total isolation for four months without any contact with the outside world – a lawyer from North Mitrovica, Ljubomir Pantovic said at a press conference in Zvecan. The measure came into force after police officers from the […]
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 →Newspapers that never arrive – obstructing print media distribution (Reporters Without Borders)
As print media publishers and distributors from all over the world gather today in Berlin for the annual Distripress congress, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is releasing its latest report, entitled “Newspapers that never arrive,” which sheds light on how governments, state institutions, powerful oligarchs and corporations obstruct print media distribution. See at: https://bit.ly/2mhMyfM
Read More →Greek PM Mitsotakis to Vucic: Greece does not change its stance on Kosovo (Beta, N1, B92)
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and Greek Prime Minister Kyroys Mitsotakis agreed in New York that two nations had a sincere friendship and discussed bilateral relations, the situation in the region and Belgrade’s road to the European Union, the Beta news agency reported on Tuesday. Vucic asked Mitsotakis not to change the Greek stand towards […]
Read More →Vucic’s ‘tight’ agenda in New York (B92, Tanjug)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reached New York on Monday afternoon to attend the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly Immediately upon arrival, Vucic will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Namely, Merkel initiated a meeting with the President of Serbia, although he has only a day and a half in New York and […]
Read More →Vucic on Kostunica’s proposal: Implement it, and I will resign immediately (Serbian media)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic commented on Vojislav Kostunica’s proposal that the status of Kosovo could be solved by the Hong Kong model. “I have great respect for our presidents, Boris Tadic, Vojsilav Kostunica and Tomislav Nikolic, respectively. I have a question for you – what does it mean exactly – a Hong Kong model? Who […]
Read More →Kostunica: I had solution for Kosovo (Kurir, B92, Tanjug)
Former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica stated that he had a proposal for solution of Kosovo issue. He said that it was based on a Hong Kong model. He claims that it would be a compromise that would rule out all the extreme options and prove to […]
Read More →Serbian opposition leader has plan for Kosovo without Vucic and his partners in Pristina (FoNet, N1, Beta)
Serbian opposition leader Dragan Djilas told reporters on Thursday that his Party of Freedom and Justice has a plan for Kosovo which does not include President Aleksandar Vucic and his partners in Pristina. Djilas said that Vucic was out of the plan because “he does not know what the word reconciliation means”. “Our plan includes […]
Read More →Danas: Talks on Kosovo in the future in ‘troika’ form
Negotiations on Kosovo in the future “likely to be in troika form” in Brussels, diplomats from EU headquarters told Belgrade based daily Danas. As they explain, this implies that “in addition to representatives of Belgrade and Pristina, the United States Special Envoy for the Western Balkans, Matthew Palmer, the EU Special Envoy for those negotiations, […]
Read More →Kosovo Football Association calls police to stop Red Star playing in Mitrovica (KoSSev, N1)
Kosovo Football Association Secretary Erol Salihu said on Thursday that he asked the Kosovo police and customs service to prevent the Red Star Belgrade football team from entering Kosovo next week, the KoSSev news portal reported. The Red Star team are scheduled to play a Serbia Cup game against the Trepca team in North Mitrovica […]
Read More →Djuric: UN’s inevitable role in resolving Belgrade-Pristina relations (RTS, Kontakt plus radio, Danas, RTV Puls)
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said today at a meeting with the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Zahir Tanin that the United Nations has an inevitable role in the process of resolving Belgrade-Pristina relations. Djuric and Tannin […]
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