Army of Serbia Chief of Staff, general Milan Mojsilovic told KFOR Commander Lorenzo D'Addario that KFOR is the only legitimate armed formation in Kosovo, reported Serbian media.
KFOR is the most responsible for the safety of the people in the entire territory of Kosovo, especially of the non-Albanian population in the north, General Mojsilovic told General D'Addario.
President of Serbia in today’s press conference told reporters that the situation in northern Kosovo, was increasingly more difficult, while the political-security situation in his view is very complex.
He says that the biggest problem with the supply is caused by Pristina’s tariffs, i.e. 100 per cent on goods from central Serbia.
German Minister of Defence Ursula von der Leyen proposed for the President of European Commission.
On yesterday’s meeting of European Council, the decision on the successor of Donald Tusk has been reached, so Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel was elected the new President of the European Council.
Former President Donald Tusk announced this information on his official Twitter account.
Regional meeting within the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), held in Albanian coastal town of Vlore on Friday, was interrupted after an incident involving Kosovo's representatives, which Serbia's officials assessed as ''chauvinistic'', according to Serbian media.
Kossev porta reports that a visit of the director of the KiM Office, Marko Djuric, has been announced for today. Djuric previously himself announced to the Serbian media the opening of the water supply system in the North Kosovo.
Kossev reports as the latest news that Djuric is in Zubin Potok.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic emphasized today that the head of the KiM Office, Marko Djuric, was in Berlin at a preparatory meeting for a possible summit in Paris, and that it is even more certain now that the summit will not happen, reported Serbian media.
- I sent Marko Djuric to that meeting personally - Vucic told reporters and pointed out that there were no secrets, except that the hosts agreed on the content of the conversation.
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic says that he is 99 percent sure that the Paris meeting of the Western Balkans leaders with Kosovo, planned for July 1, would not be held because the Albanians “are not ready to talk about anything important,” Serbian media reported.
Vucic adds that his impression was the Albanians wanted to send a message to the Germans and French that the Europeans should not take part in solving the Kosovo issue.
Speaking to the Belgrade based TV Pink, Vucic said:
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on Wednesday that she sees no reason for officials from Belgrade and Pristina to meet in Paris unless the Kosovo Albanians revoke the tariffs on goods from Serbia, reported Serbian media.
“We are always prepared to sit down with people like German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron as well as people from the region to discuss problems and ways to solve them,” Brnabic told reporters in Paris after a meeting with her French counterpart Edouard Philippe.
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci dismissed his political advisor Branislav Nikolic following claims of his alleged involvement in “dubious activities directed against the constitutional order and sovereignty of Kosovo”, a statement said on Wednesday.
The statement from the president’s cabinet said that Thaci took media reports about Nikolic’s dubious activities seriously even though he did not have any official report about those alleged activities by his Serb advisor from any security service.
US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott warned on Monday that the status quo in the Balkans is not sustainable.
There will be no better time than the present to negotiate an agreement the ambassador wrote on his Twitter account over a retweet of State Department official Matthew Palmer’s speech at a gathering in Pristina on June 12.