V4 – WB Summit opens in Prague, without Kosovo delegation (Beta, N1)
Overshadowed by the Czech President Milos Zeman’s statement that his country might reconsider the decision on recognition of Kosovo independence, the Western Balkans’ leaders and the so-called Visegrad Group (V4) met in Prague without Pristina’s top politicians, the Beta news agency reported. However, Kosovo is represented by its Charge d’Affaires, officially due to internal politics […]
Read More →Babis to Zeman: I am ready for Kosovo debate (B92)
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said he is ready to debate with the Czech President Milos Zeman about Kosovo, B92 reports. President Zeman said yesterday in Belgrade that he would in a month time during the meeting of constitutional authorities in Prague ask whether it is possible to revoke recognition of Kosovo, Serbian media reported. […]
Read More →US Senator Johnson: “It must be explained to people of Kosovo and Serbia, you may not like the solution” (Tanjug, B92, VoA)
We need to explain to the people of Kosovo and Serbia that the agreement, which they may not like, is in their best interest, said U.S. Senator Ron Johnson. Johnson visited Belgrade and Pristina last week. He told the Ukrainian Voice of America service that it is up to leaders in Belgrade and Pristina to […]
Read More →Brnabic to attend meeting of prime ministers of Visegrad Group, Western Balkans (Serbian Government, media)
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic will attend the meeting of the prime ministers of the Visegrad Group and of the Western Balkans in Prague on 12 September. The host of the meeting will be Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Serbian media report. This is the first meeting of the prime ministers of the Visegrad Group […]
Read More →Zeman: In one month on possibility to revoke recognition of Kosovo (Kosovo-online portal)
Czech President Milos Zeman said in Belgrade today that he would in one month, during the meeting of constitutional authorities in Prague, ask the question, is it possible to revoke recognition of Kosovo independence, Kosovo-online portal reports. He said this responding to a journalist’s question could it be expected that some EU state in the […]
Read More →Haradinaj: “I was told that nothing can be realized without Serbia’s consent” (B92, Kosovo online, Gazeta Express)
Outgoing Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj visited Urosevac, where he spoke about the efforts to prevent Kosovo’s partition in direct communication with citizens. He said that there were times when he was told that nothing can be done without Serbia’s “consent”, Gazeta Express carried. “They wanted to hand us over to Serbia. They’ve told us that […]
Read More →Popovic-Ivkovic with representatives of Libya on Kosovo and Interpol (Kontakt plus radio)
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs State Secretary Biljana Popovic-Ivkovic met with the representatives of the Embassy of Libya yesterday and presented Serbia’s arguments against consideration of the latest Pristina request to join Interpol, Radio kontakt plus reports. Popovic-Ivkovic noted that the latest Kosovo application represents violation of the Interpol decision of the last year, when […]
Read More →Lavrov: Kosovo’s problem is a high-stakes geopolitical game (RTS, Sputnik)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended the farewell reception of the Serbian ambassador in Moscow. Lavrov thanked Slavenko Terzic for the joint work and wished him much success in his further career. Lavrov referred to the friendship of the two peoples, a common history – the history of the brotherhood of Slavs and Orthodox. ”We […]
Read More →Alliance for Serbia: We will not take part in fake Kosovo elections (KoSSev)
The opposition Alliance for Serbia (SzS) said today it will not take part “in the fake elections in Kosovo and Metohija, same as in the rest of Serbia,” KoSSev portal reports today. The Alliance further said that in Kosovo “there were neither minimal conditions for free and fair elections, nor for equal presentation of the […]
Read More →Mihajlovic: Contract with EIB to build Nis-Pristina high-way to be signed this week (N1)
Serbian Construction and Infrastructure Minister Zorana Mihajlovic said on Monday that a contract to build a highway between Nis and Pristina would be signed with the European Investment Bank (EIB) later this week, TV N1 reports. She said that the contract to build the highway between Nis (via Merdare crossing) and Pristina would be signed […]
Read More →Jeremic: To boycott elections, then all decisions, including the ones on Kosovo, illegitimate (Kosovo-online portal)
Leader of Peoples’ Party (NS) Vuk Jeremic called for the boycott of elections in Serbia, arguing that in that case all decisions made by the institutions elected after the poll and international agreements that the authorities would sing, including the eventual agreement on “delineation” by which Pristina would get seat in the UN would be […]
Read More →German Special Envoy to the Balkans: “The road-map is clear, only that Serbia and Kosovo will not be eventually united” (Blic)
Belgrade based daily Blic writes today that the great American diplomatic return to the Balkans, obviously initiated by the EU’s inability to unravel the Kosovo knot, has sparked nervousness in the EU, and emissaries come to see what can be done after Mogherini’s diplomatic collapse. One of them, Peter Beyer, a member of the German […]
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