Association of Families of kidnapped and murdered in Kosovo and Metohija appealed today to the Serbian PM, Aleksandar Vucic, asking him to set the release of abducted Serbs and return to their families as the first topic of the agenda, at the future meeting with Kosovo Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa.
BELGRADE -- Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama sayst Serbia "should become an ally of Albania, in order for the people in the Balkans to find peace."
"We have had a very difficult past, a years-long break in communication and a very dramatic period because of the regime in Belgrade and the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, but we are absolutely certain that a completely new period is in our hands and that an immense number of opportunities lie before our countries," Rama told the N1 television, Beta reported.
Serbian army chief Ljubisa Dikovic KFOR commander Francesco Paolo Figliuolo met and discussed the security situation in Kosovo and on the administrative line.
Dikovic and Figliuolo also discussed the cooperation between the Serbian Army and KFOR so far and the directions of their future cooperation, the Serbian Ministry of Defense said.
This is the first official meeting between the two general since Figliuolo assumed office as the KFOR commander in Kosovo in September 2014.
“My priority will be implementation of the agreement that Belgrade and Pristina reached in Brussels and the formation of Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO),” says Branimir Stojanovic, new Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo. In a first interview after appointment for the Deputy PM, Stojanović says that the joint participation of all relevant Serbian factors will be the key to success, since so far they functioned separately.
In addition to the ZSO, which problems will be in your focus?
After writing of the newspapers, which claim that Serbia actually is requested to recognize Kosovo in order to open the first chapter, Serbian analysts stated that conditions for opening the chapters are already stipulated by the Brussels Agreement, as well as technical agreements previously signed by Borislav Stefanovic and Edita Tahiri.
Professor of Political Sciences in Belgrade, Predrag Simic, said today that the German plan for the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina and the continuation of EU integration for Belgrade implies Kosovo's membership in the United Nations.
- If for Germany the model for Kosovo is the agreement of two German states from the sixties and seventies, it does not imply formal recognition but involves the normalization of relations in all areas, meaning and membership (Kosovo) in the UN - Simic told Beta news agency.
Representatives of Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and the Serbian lists have signed a coalition agreement on the principles for the formation of the Government of Kosovo, which envisages the creation of the Association of Serbian municipalities within three, or at least five months of the signing of the agreement.
According to the agreement, "past and future privatizations in municipalities with Serbian majority in Kosovo, with special emphasis on agricultural associations, will have a special treatment."
From the moment relations between the West and Russia became more harsh and started to resemble to the renewal of the Cold War, increased the pressures from both sides on Serbia to choose the side. The battle over the "South Stream" project and the crisis in Ukraine brought us in the center of the fight, where great powers have less patience for the Serbian "golden mean".
Serbia will especially be in the middle of cross-fire of January 1, when it will take over the presidency over the OSCE.
Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, referred today to media writing about 11 conditions set to Serbia by Germany in relation with the opening of the accession negotiations with the EU and stressed that no one asks Serbia to recognize Kosovo.
Caught more than 400 illegals, mostly from Kosovo.
In the last 24 hours in the southern part of the Csongrád in Hungary, 422 people were caught who arrived illegally from Serbia, Hungarian police said, adding that the majority of illegal aliens are seeking asylum in Hungary.
- Border police discovered 33 groups, among whom were 64 people from Kosovo, of whom 26 children - reported Hungarian portal "Vajdaság ma", quoting the state news agency MT.