Slovakia "supports Serbia's EU bid, won't recognize Kosovo" (B92, Beta, Tanjug)
BRATISLAVA -- Slovakia is Serbia's true friend, whose experience can teach us a lot, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday in Bratislava.
Serbia marks another anniversary of NATO attacks (B92, Beta, Tanjug)
BELGRADE -- Serbia is on Tuesday marking the 16th anniversary since the beginning of NATO's air war against the country, then a part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Serbs and Albanians together are seeking missing persons (RTK2, Beta)
Association of missing persons in Kosovo and Metohija and the Association of missing Albanians have agreed with the families to seek together all disappeared.
This was after the meeting, "Non-governmental associations for Missing Persons - Example of best practice and cooperation between communities", in Pristina, said the coordinator of the Association for missing persons in Kosovo, Milorad Trifunovic.
Trifunovic told BETA that the policy remains the major obstacle to resolving the fate of missing Serbs and Albanians.
"We believe that there are still some who are protecting criminals.
"Serbia has ways to respond" to property issues (Beta, B92)
BELGRADE -- Zeljko Sertic has said that the Serbian government will not allow the government of Kosovo to, with any act, violate the principle of ownership over property.
Djuric, Pinter discuss Hungary's support to Serbia (Tanjug, Beta)
BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric met with Hungarian Ambassador to Serbia Attila Pinter to discuss the support of Hungary to Serbia's EU integration and the continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.
Djuric and Pinter agreed that it is very important to continue implementing the agreements reached as part of the Brussels Agreement (on the normalization of Belgrade-Pristina relations) and that progress should be made by taking practical steps, the Office for KiM said in a release on Friday.
The fact that Belgrade supported the par
Kosovo opposition hindering normalization of relations (Beta)
The Chairperson of the Serbia’s parliament's Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun, said today that intention of hindering the normalization of relations with Kosovo lays behind the Self-Determination’s protests in Pristina.
"EU seeks alignment not only on Ukraine" (Beta, Vecernje Novosti, B92)
BRUSSELS -- The European Commission is asking Serbia to harmonize its foreign policy - "a possible hint of pressure on us to impose sanctions on Russia," writes a daily.
The establishment of Kosovo's army threatens the Kumanovo Agreement (Beta, Vreme)
Former Serbian Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac had assessed as "unacceptable" formation of Kosovo military and called on the government to make it clear to counterparts in Brussels. He said that it would have repealed the Kumanovo Agreement from 1999 and threatened the Brussels Treaty between Belgrade and Pristina.
"Eventual formation of the army in Kosovo, by the Provisional Institutions, would have unforeseeable consequences for peace and stability in the region.
PM Vučić and Meuci on cooperation between Serbia and Eulex (Tanjug, IRS, Beta, RTS)
Serbian PM Aleksandar Vučić received the new head of the Eulex mission Gabriel Meuci, on which occasion he said that the cooperation between Serbia and Eulex would be correct during Meuci’s term as well. The two stressed the need of closer cooperation in battle against organized crime and illegal traffic. Meuci promised to give support to the continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.
Jablanovic: Participation of the Serbian list in Kosovo government certain (RTS, Beta)
Director of the Serbian List, Aleksandar Jablanovic said that participation of the Serbian List in Kosovo Government is not in dispute, as opposed to the participation of other parties who do not have consent of the official Belgrade nor the international factor which is very important.
Jablanovic says that without the will of the international factors that largely finance the political process in Kosovo, there is no luck for the future government, reports Beta.
According to him, Self-Determination remains unacceptable for the Serbian list.
Jablanovic states that Serbian list, if the news a