Dacic: One of the ideas is a delimitation, but certain we will not discuss two things (TV Pink, Blic)
Foreign Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic says that a solution is sought for the Kosovo issue and that a delimitation with the Albanians is just one idea, but that there are no other ideas. He added that everyone now is opening the door to dialogue, but that there will certainly not be a discussion of […]
Read More →Serbian Defence Minister reacts to Ashdown statement (TV Pink, N1)
Serbian Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin has fiercely criticized former High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Paddy Ashdown for warning against changes to borders in the Balkans. “How was that not dangerous when Yugoslavia was being broken up,” Vulin told TV Pink on Thursday. “He says changes to borders are dangerous so how was that not dangerous when […]
Read More →Dacic:”It’s unrealistic to expect change Kosovo talks format now” (B92, TV Pink)
Ivica Dacic says that considering a change of the Kosovo dialogue format at this time – where someone would join the process – is “a utopia.” According to the foreign minister and first deputy PM, this is not realistic at the moment – “and if something like that were to happen, Serbia would ask for […]
Read More →Vulin: “You’ll have no army – now go back to fighting old ladies” (B92, Tanjug, RTS, TV Pink)
Serbs in Kosovo do not support the formation of an army in Kosovo, and it will not be formed, Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said. Vulin in this way commented on Kosovo PM Ramush Haradinaj’s announcement that an army would be formed in Kosovo this year – and that he “has the support of […]
Read More →Reporters Without Borders: Verbal attacks on journalists by pro-government Serb media
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a series of threats and verbal attacks by pro-government media against four journalists on social networks in recent days, in the run-up to local elections in Belgrade and two other municipalities, and calls on the authorities to punish those responsible. See more at:https://rsf.org/en/news/verbal-attacks-journalists-pro-government-serb-media
Read More →We have “big hole” in diplomatic relations – FM (B92, TV Pink)
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic thinks Serbia has a “big hole in diplomatic relations, because it underestimates some countries” – that are her friends. Speaking for TV Pink, Dacic said this concerns those countries to whom “(Yugoslav president) Tito still means something,” and who have “great positive memories from past relations with Yugoslavia.” “If you never […]
Read More →Serbia’s president eyes early parliamentary vote (Reuters)
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is considering calling the third snap parliamentary elections since 2014 to further cement his Progressive Party’s (SNS) grip on power, he said late on Monday. Vucic, a ultranationalist firebrand during the Yugoslav wars of 1990s who a decade later has become committed to joining the European Union, said […]
Read More →Vucic told by US “not to encroach on Kosovo’s integrity” (B92, TV Pink)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Pink TV late on Monday that his recent conversation in Belgrade with a US State Department official was “not easy”. According to Vucic, the US officials came here “to fulfill their interests, not ours.” In a wide-ranging interview, that touched on the upcoming local elections in Belgrade, the Catalan crisis, […]
Read More →“Horrific campaign against Ivanovic, Milovic and Jablanovic” (FoNet, KIM Radio)
Five journalist and media associations (NUNS, NDNV, ANEM, LP and AOM) in the strongest terms condemned airing of a promotional video on TV Most and TV Pink by which “a horrific campaign” is underway against Oliver Ivanovic and his colleagues Dragisa Milovic and Dragan Jablanovic, Serbian media reported. “The acts of the above mentioned media […]
Read More →Dacic: This was our message to Skopje – we know everything you do (B92, TV Pink)
Serbia’s decision to withdraw its embassy staff from Macedonia is in fact “a message to Skopje.” The message is that Serbia “knows what they laid their heads together for, and what they agreed on,” First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday. “That’s something not done among friends,” Dacic said referring to […]
Read More →Drecun: A message of Mogherini for the Albanians that they cannot give up the Brussels process (TV Pink, Blic, N1)
Chairman of the Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun said today to TV Pink that, by organizing an informal meeting of the President of Serbia and Kosovo, EU High Representative Federica Mogherini has sent a message to the Kosovo Albanians that they cannot give up the Brussels process and the implementation of the deal. […]
Read More →Vučić: I will not give up Kosovo, but… (Serbian media)
Outgoing prime minister and elected president of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić answered question during interview with Belgrade based TV Pink about the Government, Kosovo, NATO, Kalabić, Stepinac, labour costs, Clinical Center Niš, inauguration and protests … Among other things, he said last night that Serbia’s EU path is very important but there are no aspirations to […]
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