Vucic willing to deal on Kosovo but angered by tariffs, US Senator Murphy says (N1)
US Senator Chris Murphy believes that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is willing to recognize Kosovo but is angry over the 100 percent tariffs imposed by Pristina on goods from Serbia. Regional broadcaster N1 reported that Republican Senator Ron Johnson wrote on his blog about his recent visit to Belgrade, saying: ”We both believe that he […]
Read More →Opposition leader files criminal charges against Serbia’s President in respect to Kosovo (N1)
Regional broadcaster N1 reports that the head of the opposition Dveri Movement Bosko Obradovic said he had filed criminal charges against Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic who he said violated the Penal Code in his meeting with the US senators last week, N1 reported. Obradovic specified that Vucic had breached the Articles 305, 306, 307 and […]
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 →Vucic: My Kosovo solution idea failed; that will cost us dearly (B92, Blic, N1, Tanjug)
President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he regretted that his idea of establishing a final compromise boundary between Serbs and Albanians has failed. As he said, the idea failed because “our people thought differently, and that will cost us dearly in two to three decades.” Vucic also announced today that he will meet with Italy’s […]
Read More →Trajkovic: Serbia must not recognize Kosovo (Danas, NIN, N1)
Serbia cannot recognize the independence of Kosovo, because if it does, neither region nor Serbia will receive anything, said president of the European Movement in Kosovo Rada Trajkovic to the Belgrade based weekly NIN and estimated that this would lead to destabilization of Serbia, reports Belgrade based daily Danas. She said that in Kosovo, in a […]
Read More →Trajkovic: Recognition brings nothing essential to Kosovo (RTK2, Danas)
Rada Trajkovic, president of the European Movement of Serbs, told RTK2 that Serbia has already done a lot in the field of compromise with Kosovo, allowing Pristina full internal independence through executive, legislative and judicial power, which is completely independent from Belgrade. On the other hand, Trajkovic added, Pristina did not do what it was […]
Read More →Dacic: Belgrade won’t recognise Kosovo first, and then talk (N1, Beta)
Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday that Serbia would not first accept the independence of Kosovo and then negotiate with Pristina, adding “that’s for sure,” the Beta news agency reported. After meeting his Cape Verde’s counterpart Luis Filipe Taveras in Belgrade, Ivica Dacic told reporters that “unilaterally declared independence (of Kosovo) was an […]
Read More →International community becomes nervous about Kosovo’s stand on the recognition (Danas)
According to the diplomatic source of Belgrade daily newspapers Danas, Thaci and Haradinaj have been preparing the Kosovo public for a long time to say at some point that recognition of Serbia is not the most important thing. The same source says that Serbia should not be bothered with the ultimate goal in the state […]
Read More →Poll: 8% of Serbians for recognition of Kosovo (Serbian media)
Eight per cent of those who took part in the poll said they supported recognizing Kosovo; seven per cent want all negotiations to be abandoned, while six per cent think Belgrade should withdraw its signature from the Brussels agreement, Tanjug reports. A Faktor Plus poll commissioned by the Belgrade based news agency Tanjug shows that […]
Read More →“Recognition fairytale, UN membership mirage” – FM Dacic on Kosovo (B92, RTV, Beta)
In an interview with the public broadcaster in the province of Vojvodina (RTV), cited by the Beta agency, Dacic said the possibility of Serbia accepting Kosovo’s UN membership was a mirage. “It would be good if a lasting solution were to be found. But when they talk about a solution for Kosovo in the West, […]
Read More →Hoxhaj: Crnadak’s statements, only to please Serbia (RTK)
Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Enver Hoxhaj, has reacted to the reiteration of statements of the Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Igor Crnadak, that Bosnia will not recognize independence of Kosovo. He took to Twitter to condemn “destructive statements” which according to Hoxhaj are being made to satisfy Serbia. “Destructive statements from Bosnia’s Minister […]
Read More →Pacolli: Guinea Bissau has not withdrawn recognition (lajmi.net)
Kosovo’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Behgjet Pacolli said today at Forum 2015 which discussed specter of EU policies towards Kosovo, that the African state, Guinea Bissau has not withdrawn recognition of Kosovo. “Recognition by Guinea Bissau is not withdrawn. Kosovo was recognized through a verbal note in 2010, by the President who does not live […]
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