Kosovo membership in Interpol would be political, says Serbian Internal Affairs Minister (RTS, TV Pink)
Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Friday that the Kosovo authorities want to use membership in Interpol to reinforce statehood not to improve their crime fighting capabilities. The minister told Belgrade based TV Pink that a decision to induct Kosovo into Interpol would be political and would jeopardize that international organization’s professionalism. “If […]
Read More →Serbian Internal Affairs Minister: Serbia discussing Pristina Interpol bid with other countries (TV Pink, Beta, N1)
Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic told Belgrade based TV Pink that the Serbian authorities are talking to every possible country about Pristina’s request to join Interpol. Stefanovic says that the aim of those contacts was to prevent the “politicization” of the international police organization whose members voted not to grant membership to Kosovo in 2018. […]
Read More →Stefanovic with Vice-President of Interpol about the Pristina’s request (KIM radio)
Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic spoke in Belgrade with Alexander Prokopchuk, vice-president of Interpol and head of the Russian National Central Bureau – Moscow, the Serbian MIA announced. Stefanovic met Prokopchuk to discuss reasons of Serbia’s opposing the Kosovo’s accession to Interpol, bearing in mind that representatives of Pristina institutions have again applied for entry […]
Read More →Stefanovic: The state of full combat readiness continues; not true that KFOR informed us (RTS)
Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic spoke this morning for the RTS morning news where he said that the army of Serbia and the police remain in full combat readiness, following the Kosovo special forces incursion in the North of Kosovo. Stefanovic adds it will remain so if there are estimations that it is necessary. Speaking […]
Read More →Stefanovic: A doubt alone is the reason to exclude a judge of the Special Court (KIM radio, RTS)
Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic told reporters in Belgrade that only on a ground of doubt that Vladimir Mikula, who is on the list of judges of the Special Court for KLA crimes, had dinner with lawyer Arianit Koci, who defends former KLA members Rrustem Mustafa and Sami Lushtaku, must lead to his exemption. Mustafa […]
Read More →Serbia’s Interior Minister warns Kosovo Premier not to even think of violence (N1, Tanjug, Srna)
Serbia’s Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic warned the Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, not to even think of using force against Serbs in Kosovo, because Serbia will know how to respond. Commenting on Haradinaj’s statement that “Kosovo’s army would be deployed to the north if the border is threatened,” Stefanovic said that this clearly shows how […]
Read More →Belgrade to Interpol: Don’t consider Kosovo application (N1, RTS, B92)
Serbia’s Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic asked Interpol chiefs and the members to the organization’s Executive Committee not to look at Kosovo’s new membership application and to vote against if it was put on the next years’ General Assembly meeting, N1 reported. In the letters to the Interpol Secretary-general Jürgen Stock and the president of the […]
Read More →Jeremic: Russia supports Serbia, but not current authorities (B92, Tanjug)
Opposition People’s Party leader Vuk Jeremic says that the position of the Serbian authorities towards Russia is “insincere and hypocritical.” He argued that Russia supports Serbia, but not the current authorities. Jeremic told the srbin.info website that Russian President Vladimir Putin “does not trust Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic because of his relations with the West.” […]
Read More →Stefanovic advises Vucic to leave Kosovo issue to someone else (Vecernje Novosti,N1,Beta)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s close associate, Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said he would advise the president to do nothing about Kosovo and leave the problem to someone else. Stefanovic told Monday’s issue of Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti that it would be hard to find a solution to the Kosovo problem in 2019. He said […]
Read More →“All security services have their tasks – I can’t say which” (B92, TV Prva)
A meeting of the Bureau for Coordination of Security Services has been held in Belgrade on Friday morning. The Minister of Interior says that a detailed work plan for all services has been agreed upon during the meeting. Asked whether Kosovo and its membership in Interpol, as well as the announced forming of an army […]
Read More →Stefanovic’s letter to Interpol on Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)
Serbian Minister of Interior Nebojsa Stefanovic told Belgrade based Vecernje Novosti that Kosovo, in accordance with international law, including UN Security Council Resolution 1244, is an integral part of Serbia under the interim international administration of the UN. Novosti writes that membership in Interpol is reserved only for countries, and that Kosovo is not a […]
Read More →Stefanovic: Arrest of Serbs a part of pressure on the Kosovo Serbs (TV Prva, NMagazin, N1, RTK2)
The recent arrests of Serbs in Kosovo are part of the pressure on the local Serbs, Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic told Belgrade based TV Prva on Thursday, reports Serbian media. According to the minister, the Serbs are being pressured into accepting the forming of a Kosovo military and into considering whether there is […]
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