Ashton: We did not ask Belgrade and Pristina to cross red lines (RTS, Tanjug)
Former EU High Representative Catherine Ashton under whose mediation the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue has started in 2012 said at the Belgrade Security Forum that neither side was requested to cross their red lines, RTS reports. She added the aim was to bring representatives of the both sides in the same room, at the same table. Former […]
Read More →Serbia’s President PR: Tough meeting with Grenell, Vucic takes minutes himself (TV Prva, Beta, N1)
Suzana Vasiljevic, Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic media advisor, said on Friday the meeting with Richard Grenell, the US head of state Donald Trump’s envoy to Kosovo, was challenging, but could not go into the details of the talks, the Beta news agency reported. Speaking to the Prva TV, Vasiljevic said the two spoke alone in […]
Read More →Bieber and Judah on Grenell’s appointment: Not a good sign (B92)
Serbian media quoted Balkan experts Florian Bieber and Tim Judah, who expressed surprise at the announced appointment of Richard Grenell as special envoy for negotiations. Professor at the University of Grazz, Bieber wondered what the role of Matthew Palmer was, the recently appointed US Secretary of State’s Special Representative for the Balkans. “If Trump appoints […]
Read More →Russian FM Lavrov: United States make efforts to revise Brussels agreement (TASS, B92, Tanjug)
Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov says that United States intend to revise Brussels agreement, in part related to Community/Association of Serbian Municipalities (ZSO), TASS reported, Serbian media is quoting. In that way, the US is trying to “pull Kosovo into NATO” and keep its military base there. Lavrov recalled that four years ago, an […]
Read More →Situation in Balkans won’t improve on its own, US General says (VoA, N1, Danas)
The appointment of Matthew Palmer as the US special envoy to the Western Balkans proves how much it is important for the American diplomacy that Kosovo and Serbia reach a long-lasting solution, a retired US Army General Ben Hodges has told the Voice of America (VOA) on Thursday, adding Belgarde and Pristina leaders should have […]
Read More →Vucic reiterates Belgrade ready for talks with Pristina after tariffs are lifted (FoNet, N1)
Aleksandar Vucic, President of Serbia, confirmed that Serbia was ready to resume the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue on the normalization of relations as soon as Kosovo lifted the 100 percent import taxes on goods from Serbia and Bosnia introduced last November, the FoNet news agency reported. In a meeting with Matthew Palmer, the US special […]
Read More →US envoy: Humiliation of partners in Kosovo dialogue doesn’t help (Blic, Beta, N1)
Outgoing US ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott said on Monday that Belgrade and Washington had a different opinion about Kosovo but that they agreed that the only way towards progress was the resumption of the dialogue on the normalisation of relations, the Beta news agency reported. In an interview with the Belgrade based daily Blic, […]
Read More →Drecun: Kosovo Albanians not ready to sit at the negotiating table (RTS)
Chairman of the Serbian Assembly Committee for KiM Milovan Drecun told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that the purpose of the elections in Kosovo is to stabilize the Albanian political scene, to build an executive that will be more unified on key political issues and have a firmer position for talks with Belgrade. Drecun adds […]
Read More →Vucic willing to deal on Kosovo but angered by tariffs, US Senator Murphy says (N1)
US Senator Chris Murphy believes that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is willing to recognize Kosovo but is angry over the 100 percent tariffs imposed by Pristina on goods from Serbia. Regional broadcaster N1 reported that Republican Senator Ron Johnson wrote on his blog about his recent visit to Belgrade, saying: ”We both believe that he […]
Read More →Russia is getting involved in the resolve of Kosovo issue? (Politika, Tanjug, B92)
Dusan Janjic from the Forum for Ethnic Relations says a new format of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is likely to be created to include new players Among others, it will include Russia. In a statement given to Belgrade based daily Politika, he said that in addition to US Envoy Matthew Palmer, it is possible that Germany and […]
Read More →Zakharova: “US to apologies first and pay compensation for bombing Yugoslavia, then look to the future” (B92, Tanjug, TASS, Kurir)
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said US must apologize for the bombing of Yugoslavia, and then they can ask others to look to the future “The United States must apologize for bombing the former Yugoslavia back in 1999 and pay compensation to the relatives of those killed and injured in the US-backed NATO air […]
Read More →Blic: Thaci already “written off”? (Tanjug, B92)
As things stand now, Kosovo elections will bring new players to power. The latest deadline the Western states want to impose on reaching an agreement with Belgrade is December, respectively the end of this year, Belgrade-based Blic daily reports on its front page today. According to the daily, this however does not mean that the […]
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