Dodik: North of Kosovo to remain in Serbia with Republika Srpska joining Serbia as well (KoSSev, TV Prva)
The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik announced in Belgrade today that one of the possible solutions of the Kosovo issue is for the four municipalities in the north of Kosovo to remain in Serbia with Republika Srpska also joining the Republic of Serbia. ''If that is the solution, I will not oppose it,'' he told Belgrade's TV Prva, which was then picked up by Belgrade media.
Kosovo is Serbia, Dodik tells Thaci in Tirana (BETA, Sputnik, Srna, Tanjug, B92)
Bosnian Serb leader redraws borders across the Balkans, causes fierce reactions (N1)
Bosnian Serb leader and tripartite Presidency Chairman, Milorad Dodik, redrew the borders between Bosnia and Serbia, saying that some kind of integration between Serbia, Bosnia’s Republika Srpska (RS) entity and what he said is a Serb-dominated part of Montenegro must happen in the future.
“I know it won’t happen right now, but I'm sure it will happen in this century. One doesn’t have to be a genius to know that conditions will be met for this. This is our political wish,” Dodik told the Serbian Espreso.rs portal.
Dodik won't rule out possibility of RS independence (BETA, B92, BHT)
Dacic to Politika daily: They never asked us what we want with Kosovo
There was never a talk with representatives of the international community about what Serbia would like as an outcome in the negotiations with Pristina, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in an interview for Sunday's edition of the Belgrade based daily Politika, answering the question of whether in the past the issue of the Serbian position has been raised in discussions with influential Western officials.
Dodik: A single response of Republic of Srpska and Serbia to all challenges (BETA, SRNA, TV N1)
Izetbegovic: "If Serbia recognizes Kosovo, all radars will turn towards BiH" (Tanjug, B92, Klix.ba)
Bakir Izetbegovic, president of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), told Voice of America that he believes that in case Serbia recognizes Kosovo's independence, all radars will turn to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Izetbegovic commented on the possible outcome of Belgrade-Pristina relations, but also the relationship between BiH and Kosovo, and sees the only link between Kosovo and BiH in that "the same side that has done the violence against Albanians on Kosovo, and in BiH against the Bosniaks ".
"Serb Republic will break away from Bosnia" (B92, NIN, Tanjug)
The Serb Republic (RS) will separate from Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), above all because Serbs are extremely dissatisfied with the common life.
Former British diplomat Timothy Less told this to Belgrade weekly NIN in an interview.
Jeremic: Russia supports Serbia, but not current authorities (B92, Tanjug)
Opposition People's Party leader Vuk Jeremic says that the position of the Serbian authorities towards Russia is "insincere and hypocritical."
He argued that Russia supports Serbia, but not the current authorities.
Jeremic told the srbin.info website that Russian President Vladimir Putin "does not trust Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic because of his relations with the West."