Chief of the Serbian diplomacy, Ivica Dacic said that Kosovo and Catalonia are linked with the fact it is about unilateral secession without a dialogue with the state they are seceding from, Serbian media reported.
Dacic, who was a guest speaker on the RTS programme “Oko” said that Catalonia does not follow the example of Yugoslavia but that one of Kosovo.
Task of the Working Group to support the internal dialogue on Kosovo is to listen to and collect opinions and stances from the broadest social spectrum on the most important topics for us, in the next couple of months, Chair of the Working Group, Marko Djuric said today at the first session of the working group, Kontakt plus radio reported.
Leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Milos Jovanovic said DSS would not take part in a farce called internal dialogue on Kosovo, Serbian media reported.
Jovanovic said that the Chair of the Working Group to support dialogue, Marko Djuric, would prefer more to talk to numismatics about this for Serbia and Serbian people fateful topic.
Security of Serbs and other non-majority communities, Islamic radicalism and the necessity of full KFOR presence in Kosovo were among the topic of the meeting between members of Srpska Lista and NATO Deputy Secretary General, Rose Gottemoeller in Pristina on Friday, KIM Radio reported.
The counting of the so-called conditional ballots of voters who used their right to vote in the Kosovo local elections, would start today, KIM Radio reported.
The Voting Counting Centre announced, the counting would start at 8.30.
Suheda Ejupi from the centre said 13.533 conditional ballots arrived, KIM Radio reported.
The election process in municipalities with Serb majority did not meet European standards of democratic elections, stated EU Heads of Missions, KIM Radio reported.
Although EU Heads of Missions are pleased that based on the report of the EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) elections were held in a peaceful and regular manner in most of the places, they noticed with concern that pre-election campaign in the Serb areas in Kosovo was marked with intimidations, KIM Radio further said.
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has rejected the assessment of US diplomat Brian Hoyt Yee that Serbia was "sitting on two chairs."
Serbia is interested only in its own interests, Dacic said on Thursday.
Dacic told reporters in Belgrade that Serbia will continue to work in accordance with its state and national interests, "regardless of what they are saying, from the sidelines."
Two vehicles were burned down and one was damaged due to the fire that broke out early this morning in Mitrovica North, KoSSev portal reported. No one was injured, but material damages are reported.
Although police preliminary considered the fire broke out due to electrical installation, Deputy Commander of the Kosovo Police Region North, Besim Hoti, confirmed to KoSSev portal that the police doubts it is an arson case.
KoSSev unofficially learnt the two vehicles are the property of the Kosovo Albanian baker, and in his yard the vehicles were burned down.
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister, Ivica Dacic spoke in Palermo with his Italian counterpart about attempts to change the format of the UN Security Council sessions on Kosovo, Tanjug news agency reported.
Ivica Dacic and Angelino Alfano spoke on the margins of the OSCE Mediterranean Conference on the relations between the two countries and international organizations, in particular about the UN Security Council, which will be chaired by Italy next month.
On the occasion of the UN Day, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, who is paying a visit to the peacekeeping forces in the Central African Republic, visited yesterday the Serbian military hospital in Bangui, Serbian media reported.
Commander of the Army of Serbia Contingent, Colonel Jadranko Jukic welcomed the UN SG Guterres.
The UNSG Gutteres, with his delegation visited patients in the military hospital and acknowledged the work of the Serbian medical team to care about the health of the UN Mission personnel in this country.