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Dialogue continues because of Kurz, Vucic "brings criticism" (Prva TV, B92)

Thursday's meeting between Vucic and Thaci in Brussels is unlikely to bring anything new, but Vucic will criticize the EU, a diplomat Zoran Milivojevic said. Milivojevic told Prva TV's news program that today's meeting is "not surprising, although it may seem so." He recalled that the dialogue "almost died in the summer" when a lot of criticism was leveled at the EU, the mediator in the dialogue, regarding the organization's "inability to solve the problem." "The dialogue died down and ha

Austrian chancellor visits Belgrade, met with Vucic, Brnabic (BETA, Tanjug, B92)

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic spoke on Monday in Belgrade with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, the Serbian government announced on its website. They discussed "bilateral and economic cooperation between the two countries, the European integration of integration of Serbia and the current situation in the region." Brnabic "expressed her gratitude to Austria for the support it provides to Serbia in the process of European integration and the opening of new chapters and expressed the belief that this support will continue in the future." The prime minister stressed that Belgrade is ready to co

Vucic: Don’t confuse wish for peace with weakness (BETA)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday his country needed peace above all, but pleaded with others “not to confuse that with a weakness,” since the country knew how to defend its freedom by arms during the First World War, and will know how to do the same if someone endangers it,” Beta news agency reported. Taking part at a ceremony marking 100 years since the end of the First World War in Belgrade’s Sava Centre, President Vucic reminded the audience about the Serb army’s ordeal in 1918, when upon its return it found “all Serbian symbols and identity shelled or burned.” “Coming

Vucic comments on Veseli’s statement (Prva TV, B92)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he is not an enemy to Albanians and that he understands the statement Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli made about him earlier, B92 reports. “For the sake of Albanians, I want to say that I am not an enemy to them, on the contrary, I am an enemy to everyone who wishes to expel and kill the Serb people.

“Drawing target on Vucic’s head” (Tanjug)

Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs, Nebojsa Stefanovic said that “the obvious aim of Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli claims, that Serbian President is Kosovo enemy, is to draw the target on Vucic’s head,” Tanjug news agency reported. Stefanovic underlined that Vucic is no enemy to Albanians, or anyone else living in the territory of the southern Serbian province, instead he is fighting for the interests of Serbs living there. He noted that Pristina is getting increasingly nervous, having in mind that Serbia is getting stronger international support and that some countries are revoking

Over RSD 6 bn for projects in Serb communities in Kosovo (Serbian Government, B92)

A joint session of the Serbian government and representatives of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija was held in Belgrade on Tuesday. An investment plan for the southern province was adopted and measures of incentives for potential investors were agreed on during the meeting, the Serbian government announced. President Aleksandar Vucic said in a statement for the press after the session that more than RSD 6 billion (equal to EUR 50.7 million) will be invested in various projects over the next 18 months. He explained that these funds will be used to encourage the start of work of some factories,

Vucic says "Kosovo army will be formed on Nov. 28" (B92)

Aleksandar Vucic has reportedly said that he "has information about the date when the Kosovo army will be formed." The president made the comment on Tuesday in Belgrade, during his meeting with representatives of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija. B92 has learned that Vucic said an army would be formed in Kosovo "on November 28, Albanian Flag Day."

Vucic: Kosovo and Metohija issue cannot be resolved without Serbia (RTS, Tanjug)

Neither Kosovo and Metohija nor any other issue related to Serbia can be resolved without Serbia’s participation, President Alekdandar Vucic said yesterday in Istanbul, RTS reported. Following the meeting with Turkish President Erdogan, Aleksandar Vucic would have another meeting with world leaders on November 11, in Paris, however, he is not certain the world powers would deal with the Kosovo issue on that day. “I think there is a consideration of how and in whose presence that we talk to Thaci, but major world powers to sit together and resolve the problems, it is not going to work that wa

Vucic: Belgrade ready to continue dialogue with Pristina (BETA, TV N1)

Belgrade is ready to continue dialogue with Pristina, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told European Parliament delegation on Monday, BETA news agency reports. “Serbia is ready to continue the dialogue even in the situation with heightened political and security tensions which are primarily unfavorable to the Serbs in Kosovo,” Vucic is quoted as saying in a press release following the meeting with the delegation headed by European Parliament (EP) official Eduard Kukan. Vucic informed Kukan, who chairs the EP Delegation to the EU-Serbia Stabilization and Association Parliamentary Committee,