Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website.
Skip to main content

Jevtic calls for peace and restraint (RTS)

Serbian List Deputy Chair, Dalibor Jevtic called for peace and restraint.

Speaking for RTS morning program Jevtic said the aim of the Serbs is not conflict but a stable situation.

Jevtic stressed that those who gave the order and killers of Oliver Ivanovic should be found, but it is “an interesting moment” that ROSU units have chosen to carry out the action.

Jevtic reminded that taxes on goods from central Serbia are increased by 100 percent, and that Serbs announced peaceful protest over that measure.

KFOR: We knew something yesterday; Serbian media: Mitrovica North citizens disturbed (Tanjug, B92, TV Prva, Kontakt plus radio)

Vincenzo Grasso, KFOR spokesman, told TV Prva that KFOR was informed that four people were arrested in Kosovo, but that there is no accurate information about where they are.

"The Kosovo police arrested several people in connection with the murder of Oliver Ivanovic. We were informed that four people were arrested and I'm not sure where they are right now, but I'm sure that they are in the police and would be brought to the justice," Grasso told TV Prva.

Drecun: “Indicator of possible new violent actions of Pristina in north” (RTS, Tanjug, B92)

Intrusion and arrests that Kosovo police ROSU members carried out this morning in Mitrovca North is a dangerous move, that deteriorates the situation, Chairperson of the Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun told RTS.

He added, this could be an indicator of new possible violent actions of Pristina in the north of Kosovo. “This is a dangerous, unilateral act by Pristina, that deteriorates the situation and raises tensions,” Drecun said.

Army, security chiefs, president meet after Rosu incursion (Tanjug, TV Prva, B92)

An unscheduled closed session of the Serbian Government was held in Belgrade on Friday morning due to the incursion of a Kosovo police unit into the north of Kosovo, reports Serbian media.

President Aleksandar Vucic has had extraordinary meetings with the army and police chiefs this morning. Other security services, as well as commanders of special military and police units, also took part in these meetings.

Protests announced today in Mitrovica North, Gracanica and Strpce (KIM radio, Tanjug)

A peaceful one-hour protest will be held in Serbian communities in Kosovo, Mitrovica North, Gracanica and Strpce today at noon due to the introduction of a tax on Serbian goods, Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo Government, Dalibor Jevtic, told Tanjug last night.

Vucic warns of incidents in northern Kosovo (N1)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic warned of Friday of possible violent incidents in the town of Mitrovica.

“I fear ideas about Kosovska Mitrovica because we have indications that some people could try to storm across the bridge (between the Serb and Albanian sections of that town). We have informed the international community and we will ask them to prevent that,” the president said.

Vucic's Kosovo speech sparks reactions in Bosnia (N1)

The speech Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic held over the weekend in Kosovo triggered fierce reactions among politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who assessed it as “shameful” and “scandalous.”

During his two-day visit to Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic addressed the Serb community inhabiting the Serb-dominated northern part of the divided town of Mitrovica.

The Serbian List and Djuric say a street in North Mitrovica will be named after Oliver Ivanovic (Kossev)

Kossev portal wrote on Saturday that it appears it will be done not at the request of the Ivanovic’s party SDP but on a proposal of the Serbian List: ''Oliver Ivanovic and all innocent victims of our municipality will have a street named after them in North Mitrovica following a proposal of the Serbian List parliamentary group in the Municipal Assembly of North Mitrovica''. The head of the Kosovo Office, Marko Djuric, reacted almost simultaneously with the Serbian List, confirming that Oliver Ivanovic will have a street in North Mitrovica named after him, ''as per his credits''.

Serbian officials in North Mitrovica for Vidovdan (Kossev)

Not being in Gracanica at the liturgy, nor present at the traditional Memorial Service in Gazimestan, instead paying a visit to North Mitrovica – The head of the Kosovo Office, Marko Djuric, and the Serbian Minister of Education, Mladen Sarcevic, attended a ceremony for Mitrovica University Day, celebrated on Vidovdan. The two high Serbian officials gifted over 40 computers. The University welcomed student leaders and rectors from central Serbia and the Srpska Lista leadership.