US envoy to N1: Ideally, resumption of Kosovo talks before election campaign in Serbia
Pristina will have to lift the import tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia, and Belgrade will have to take some steps towards a compromise to resume the dialogue on the normalisation of relations, the US outgoing ambassador to Serbia Kayle Scott told N1 TV morning show on Tuesday. He said he hoped that after […]
Read More →Serbian opposition leader has plan for Kosovo without Vucic and his partners in Pristina (FoNet, N1, Beta)
Serbian opposition leader Dragan Djilas told reporters on Thursday that his Party of Freedom and Justice has a plan for Kosovo which does not include President Aleksandar Vucic and his partners in Pristina. Djilas said that Vucic was out of the plan because “he does not know what the word reconciliation means”. “Our plan includes […]
Read More →People’s movement from Kosovo ‘Fatherland’ calls for boycott of elections in Serbia and Kosovo (KIM radio, N1, Beta)
The Fatherland (Otazbina) People’s Movement of Kosovo Serbs says that it would boycott, as they say, “false elections” announced the beginning of 2020 and called the Kosovo Serbs and displaced persons not to turn out to vote. The movement is a member of the Serbian opposition Alliance for Serbia (SzS). A press release said that […]
Read More →Djilas to Danas : International community needs opposition as ikebana (Danas, Beta, N1)
The leader of the Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP) Dragan Djilas told Belgrade based daily Danas that Serbia’s opposition serves “as ikebana” to the international community which, according to him, supports President Aleksandar Vucic who is expected to recognise the independence of Kosovo. He said the people would “win the fight for their freedom […]
Read More →Tadic: ”I fear the opposition serve to the international community only to legitimise the Kosovo’s independence” (FoNet, N1)
Boris Tadic, Serbia’s former President, said on Thursday he favoured the election boycott for now, but added that all aspects of the decision should be taken in account, the FoNet agency reported. Tadic, who was former head of state, from 2004 to 2012, and now is the leader of the opposition Social-Democratic Party (SDS), said […]
Read More →Wilson: Delivery of Russian arms to Serbia is irresponsible (N1, FoNet, VoA)
Atlantic Council official Damon Wilson told Voice of America that the delivery of Russian armored vehicles to Serbia is harmful and irresponsible. A country that is on its way to the European Union should not accept weapons from Moscow, the Atlantic Council Executive Vice President said, adding that the supply of Russian arms to Serbia […]
Read More →More meetings between Serbian authorities and opposition to come (BETA, TV N1)
The Open Society Foundation and Belgrade University Political Sciences Faculty (FPN) said on Wednesday that they would continue organizing meetings between representatives of the Serbian authorities and opposition to discuss elections, TV N1 reports. A press release said the next meetings would focus on the financing of election campaigns, access to the media, electoral rolls […]
Read More →Vucic: Opposition will not jeopardize me for a decade, I withdraw from SNS next year (RTS, B92)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic claims that he will “step down” prior to opposition comes to a chance to get closer, underlying that something like this is hard to happen in a decade, B92 reports When asked whether he will step down prior to opposition getting closer to him and when something like this will happen, […]
Read More →Jeremic: Vucic must not be allowed to broker demarcation deal (Kontakt plus radio)
Leader of the opposition People’s Party Vuk Jeremic said, while visiting the village Pasjane on Saturday that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic must not be allowed to make a “demarcation” deal which would be equal to recognizing Kosovo as an independent state, reported Kontakt plus radio. According to the party’s press release, Jeremic made the statement […]
Read More →Dailies Danas and Vecernje Novosti on Palmer’s meeting with Serbian opposition
Belgrade based daily Danas reports that US diplomat Matthew Palmer called the Serbian opposition to participate in the next parliamentary elections, quoting unnamed diplomatic sources. Danas reports that Palmer told the opposition leaders that Washington does not agree with a possible boycott of elections because that would violate democratic principles. The opposition leaders are reported […]
Read More →Vucic’s Kosovo plan at the special Assembly session (Politika, N1)
Today’s edition of Belgrade’s daily Politika writes about the upcoming Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s meeting with representatives of the Serbian List as well as the leaders of all Serbian institutions in Kosovo. The meeting was announced for Friday and will discuss further steps. As stated by the Director of the KiM Office, Marko Djuric “all […]
Read More →Declaration on reconciliation of Serbs and Albanians soon (N1, NOVAs)
A deputy leader of the opposition Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP) said late on Sunday that organisation would soon present a declaration on the reconciliation between the Serbs and Albanians which, according to SSP, both Pristina and Belgrade parliaments should adopt. Marinika Tepic told Nova S television the declaration would be the beginning of […]
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