Belgrade: We’ll never give up on creation of Community of Serbian Municipalities (N1)
Serbia will never stop insisting on the formation of the Community of Serb Municipalities (CSM), a part of the Brussels Agreement signed in 2013, a Government official said on Tuesday, N1 reported. Marko Djuric, the head of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Belgrade’s official name for its former province, said he was grateful to […]
Read More →EU to Pristina: Immediately remove taxes, form ZSO (BETA, B92)
The EU on Monday expressed “deep regret” over Kosovo government’s decision to raise taxes on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina to 100 percent. Pristina also imposed non-tariff barriers, and Brussels once again made a “strong” demand for the measures to be lifted immediately, Beta agency reported, citing a press release issued after a session of […]
Read More →Lavrov: Kosovo – a question mark of the EU’s reputation (B92, Sputnik, www.efsyn.gr)
The strengthening of the presence of NATO and the EU in the Balkans leads to a deeper destabilization of Europe, Sergei Lavrov has said to the Greek daily Efimerida Syntakton, quotes portal B92. The Russian foreign minister pointed out that Moscow is concerned about these aspirations. “The situation in the Balkans cause for concern. We […]
Read More →Trajkovic: Recognition brings nothing essential to Kosovo (RTK2, Danas)
Rada Trajkovic, president of the European Movement of Serbs, told RTK2 that Serbia has already done a lot in the field of compromise with Kosovo, allowing Pristina full internal independence through executive, legislative and judicial power, which is completely independent from Belgrade. On the other hand, Trajkovic added, Pristina did not do what it was […]
Read More →European Parliament for any agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, in line with international law (RTS)
The foreign policy committee of the European Parliament tomorrow should adopt the text of the report on Serbia, which includes a compromise amendment on the possible correction of the borders between Serbia and Kosovo, reports Radio Television Serbia (RTS). “Any agreement can only be accepted if it is mutually consistent and in line with the […]
Read More →Dacic: “Kosovo in UN? Never” (Serbian media)
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says that Serbia will not recognize Kosovo’s independence and allow UN membership, and stresses that Pristina authorities daily send very diverse messages that are not related to reality, reports Serbian media. In the case of Kosovo, a compromise should be sought, and for the statements of Hashim Thaci regarding the […]
Read More →Vucic: “I see Albanians don’t want to talk about important issues” (B92, Tanjug)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic assessed on Wednesday that Pristina’s representatives do not want to discuss a single issue of essential importance. “I see that Albanian officials from Kosovo and Metohija will talk neither about the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), nor about the North, nor about Gazivode,” he said. “They do not seem to want […]
Read More →“South Tyrol” for Serbs, but in an independent state of Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)
Vecernje Novosti today write that the authorities in Pristina largely present to the western embassies their solution for the status of an independent Kosovo in which the position of the Serbs would be arranged by the model of South Tyrol in Italy. This action coincided with the agreement of Hashim Thaci and Ramush Haradinaj that […]
Read More →Hashim Thaci in an interview for Danas: : We will not allow the creation of Republika Srpska in Kosovo
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci in an interview for Belgrade based daily Danas says that as leaders they are responsible for the well-being of our children and future generations, when talking about Brussels based negotiation, and he thinks that President Vucic and himself were willing to prevent the past from blocking the future or endanger peace […]
Read More →“Pristina has no more space for avoiding the formation of the ZSO” (RTS)
Professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Dragan Djukanovic, told national broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that he believes that the next round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will be at the beginning of September, and that by then Pristina must give some outlines of the ZSO Statute. Dragan Djukanovic said visiting the […]
Read More →EU gives Pristina “extra time” on ZSO – and what that means (Tanjug, B92)
EC spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic says the EU expects all agreements reached within the Kosovo dialogue to be implemented “without delay.” “Kosovo gave the mandate to the Steering Team to draft the statute of the Community, that is, the Association (of Serb Municipalities, ZSO), which is in progress and will take time,” Kocijancic told Tanjug on […]
Read More →Management Team: We did not submit the draft of the Statute but the report on our activities (Serbian media)
The Management Team for the establishment of the Association/Community of Serbian Municipalities, performs its task of preparation of the Statute of the ZSO in line with its mandate, entrusted through the Brussels agreements and the draft text will be presented, as it was foreseen, in Brussels, to the implementation boards of Belgrade and Pristina, and […]
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