Obrad Kesic: Trump has a different vision of foreign policy (RTS)
Political analyst Obrad Kesic told RTS that the change in the US’s attitude towards Kosovo is tied to bigger issues from the Balkans and recalls that US President Donald Trump has announced in the campaign that he has a different vision of foreign policy. However, Kesic points out that there is great resistance to his […]
Read More →US Ambassador to BiH: Support to the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, there are no parallels (Kontakt plus radio, RFE)
The US Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina told Radio Free Europe that the US supports the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and that there are no parallels between Kosovo, Serbia and Republika Srpska (RS). “What we support when it comes to Kosovo is definitely a dialogue that is being conducted, which we believe should be conducted until a […]
Read More →BiH Presidency Member from Republika Srpska Mladen Ivanic: I’m pleased that Pacolli did not come to Banja Luka (Serbian media)
BiH Presidency Member from Republika Srpska (RS) Mladen Ivanic says today that that he is not dissatisfied at all, as far as he is concerned, that Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli did not come to Banja Luka to an informal meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP), […]
Read More →Vecernje Novosti: And Paris against delimitation?
France, like Germany, is against the “delimitation” between Belgrade and Pristina, reports today Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti. Vecernje Novosti sources point out that the opposition was expressed to any change in borders or administrative lines in the region during a conference of ambassadors held last week, which was attended by French President Emmanuel Macron. […]
Read More →Kosovo FM cancels the trip to Bosnia (N1)
Kosovo Foreign Minister, Behgjet Pacolli, cancelled his trip to Banja Luka, after “threats and obstacles” he encountered following the invitation to attend a meeting of the regional foreign ministers in that Bosnian city, the minister said on Tuesday. Pacolli was invited to attend the informal meeting of foreign ministers of the South-East Europe Cooperation Process […]
Read More →Both presidents back separation, Pristina’s analyst says (Danas, N1)
The presidents of Serbia and Kosovo are main advocates of the separation between Pristina and Belgrade, Shkëlzen Maliqi, Kosovo ’s political analyst tells the Belgrade Danas daily on Monday, warning about possible effects on Bosnia. Speaking about the deals between Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci and about a final stage of the Belgrade – Pristina […]
Read More →Vucic meets with member of Bosnia presidency (B92, Tanjug)
President Aleksandar Vucic met on Wednesday in Belgrade with Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Presidency Member Mladen Ivanic. According to a press release from Vucic’s office, during the conversation, he “stressed the need to strengthen political relations and economic cooperation.” Vucic added that this was in the spirit of good neighborly relations and in the interest of both […]
Read More →Kosovo Albanian leaders’ fear of flying – over Serb Republic (B92)
An airplane taking Pristina’s delegation to the Kosovo talks in Brussels has “wandered into” the Serb Republic’s airspace – thanks to a mistake made in Tirana. According to reports in Albanian language media, the Tirana air traffic control directed Behgjet Pacolli’s private plane used by the delegation to the airspace of the Serb entity (RS) […]
Read More →“Serbia does not want unification with RS” – Vucic’s cabinet (B92, Danas, N1)
Serbia does not want to unify with the Republika Srpska (RS), the Belgrade-based daily Danas says was told by President Aleksandar Vucic’s cabinet. Vucic’s cabinet said this when asked about RS President Milorad Dodik’s map, drawn during his interview for DW, which showed his vision of the map of the Western Balkans. In it, the Serb […]
Read More →Dodik: If Serbia accepted the separation of Kosovo and we would be separated (DW, RTS, Blic, N1, Dnevnik, TV Most)
Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said that the policy of preserving territorial integrity, represented by Serbia, is an obstacle to the separation of Republika Srpska. “If Serbia, in that moment, has said that it was OK, when Kosovo seceded, we would have been already separated,” Dodik said in an interview with Deutsche Welle. If Belgrade […]
Read More →“If we said we’d form union with RS – what would you say?” (B92)
Edi Rama’s statement about a union between Albania and Kosovo again confirms that creation of a Greater Albania is a common platform of all ethnic Albanians. Serbian First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said this late on Tuesday in reaction to the Albanian prime minister’s interview given to the website Politico, during which […]
Read More →Albanians encouraged by “somebody” to talk about referendum (B92)
Hashim Thaci’s intent to organize a referendum on the unification of the self-proclaimed state of Kosovo with Albania has the goal of pressuring Serbia. This is what former head of Serbia’s Military-Security Agency (VBA) Momir Stojanovic has told Russia’s Sputnik broadcaster. According to him, this announcement “coming from the president of the so-called state of […]
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