Dacic: Serbia warned NATO, we will react if Serbs are attacked (TV Pink, Tanjug, B92)
There is no unified appeal by the international community to Pristina to revoke the tariffs on goods from Serbia, and that is why they remain in force, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic told TV Pink. He added the US has been interested in the tariffs to be revoked and the dialogue to continue, because […]
Read More →Nenad Popovic: Aim of NATO aggression failed, Kosovo is Serbian (Tanjug, B92)
It is clear the goal because of which Serbia was bombarded in 1999 has not been fulfilled, and Kosovo remains Serbian, also thanking to the efforts of Russia that did not allow changes of the Resolution 1244. This is according to the Serbian Minister for Innovations and Technological Development, Nenad Popovic. “Today, we can see […]
Read More →Czech President: NATO 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia was mistake (BETA, TV N1, Danas)
On the eve of celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic’s NATO membership, the country’s President Milos Zeman said the Alliance’s bombing of the then Yugoslavia in 1999 was a mistake and that he did not gladly look back at the time, BETA news agency reported. Zeman said the Czech Republic was the newest […]
Read More →“37 Serbs currently in Kosovo Security Force, as 70 leave” (Tanjug, B92, Lajmi)
The KSF (Kosovo Security Force) commander Rahman Rama said that “due to pressure from Belgrade,” 70 members have left this formation. He submitted a report to a relevant parliamentary committee and said the focus of the KSF was on “including members of minority communities.” Currently, the KSF has 10 percent of minority communities’ members and […]
Read More →Dodik: Any malign influence in Balkans is British, not Russian (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug, B92)
If anyone has meddled in the Balkans and spread malign influence, then it’s Western countries and their intelligence services, and not Russia. This has been stated by the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Milorad Dodik. “Many of the bad things that have been happening here in the last centuries have been tied precisely […]
Read More →No parallels between Bosnia and Pristina-Belgrade talks, says US Ambassador to BiH (N1, Beta)
The US does not consider that the ongoing talks between Serbia and Kosovo have anything to do with Bosnia, the newly appointed US Ambassador to Sarajevo, Eric Nelson, said on Thursday in his first press conference after taking office, N1 reported. “The US position is clear that there is no parallel between the negotiations taking […]
Read More →Serbia, NATO share interest in preserving regional stability (Serbia.gov.rs, B92, Kontakt plus radio)
Serbian media reports that First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic received on Monday Deputy Commander of NATO Joint Force Command in Naples Lieutenant General Christian Juneau. The Serbian government said in a press release that the interlocutors underlined that Serbia and NATO have a common interest of preserving peace and stability in the […]
Read More →Former MEP Doris Pack speaks out against border changes in Western Balkans (N1, Radio Free Europe)
The European Parliament’s former rapporteur on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Doris Pack, spoke out on Tuesday against changes to borders in the Balkans. Former MEP expressed surprise over the fact that the Presidents of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci, support the proposed territory swap between Serbia and Kosovo. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia […]
Read More →Milivojevic: It is by no coincidence that they call for abolishment of Resolution 1244 (Tanjug, B92)
Diplomat Zoran Milivojevic commenting on letters/congratulations that the USA President Donald Trump has sent to Belgrade and Pristina, said it points out there is no solution to the Kosovo issue without Serbia, Tanjug news agency reported. He also added, support of Washington to Kosovo independence is indisputable. However, according to Milivojevic, the letter Trump sent […]
Read More →NATO: KSF obligations agreed in letters that are not public (RTS)
Kosovo authorities and NATO in letters exchanged in 2013 agreed on the obligation that Kosovo Security Forces (KSF) can not move northern of the Ibar River without KFOR approval. However, these letters are not available to the public, NATO officials said, RTS reported. The obligation is clear, Kosovo Security Forces cannot move north of the […]
Read More →Dacic: EU membership, regional stability priorities for Serbia (TV N1)
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said on Thursday that membership in the European Union and regional stability are Serbia’s key foreign policy priorities, TV N1 reports. Speaking to students at the 8th class of High Security and Defense Studies, Dacic said that Kosovo is an issue of the highest national interest and the greatest […]
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