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Belgrade, Pristina police directors discuss migrants issue (Tanjug, Akter)

Serbian Police Director Milorad Veljovic met in Belgrade Tuesday with the police director from Pristina, Spend Maxhuni, to discuss the issue of increased influx of migrants from Kosovo in the countries of the European Union, the Serbian Ministry of Interior said in a release. The police directors also talked about joint efforts in the fight against all forms of organized crime and security related incidents along the administrative line between central Serbia and Kosovo. Veljovic and Maxhuni also discussed the ongoing investigation into the killing of Serbian Gendarmerie member Stevan Sindje

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Epidemiologist reports four fatal influenza cases in Serbia (Tanjug)

NIS, BELGRADE - Four people have died after contracting the H1N1 virus and there are two more suspect cases of H1N1 infection in Serbia, epidemiologist Branislav Tiodorovic, acting director of the Public Health Institute in Nis, southern Serbia, told Tanjug Thursday. Tiodorovic said Influenza A (H1N1) and A (H3N2) viruses had been confirmed present in the Nis area. The fatal cases include persons from Novi Sad, Valjevo and Uzice, and a 33-year-old pregnant woman from the vicinity of Belgrade, who died at the Clinical Center of Serbia's Clinic for Infectious Diseases on Wednesday. Tiodorovic

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Rustemov:Kazakhstan will not recognize Kosovo's independence (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Kazakh Ambassador to Serbia Nurbah Rustemov said during a meeting he had with Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic Thursday that his country would never recognize the independence of Kosovo, unilaterally proclaimed by ethnic Albanians in 2008. Ljajic and Ambassador Rustemov, accredited to Serbia on a non-residential basis, discussed ways to improve overall relations between the two countries and opportunities to promote economic cooperation. They agreed that 2015 should see the holding of the first meeting of th

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No deal on vehicle insurance with Kosovo authorities (Tanjug)

KOPAONIK - The Serbian Association of Car Insurers could not sign a vehicle insurance agreement with Kosovo's authorities even after three years of negotiations, although it has offered a considerable price cut, the association's secretary general Vladan Manic has said. Besides the significant price reduction for insurance services, the association offered a wide range of tariffs that would enable freedom of movement of people, goods and services across the administrative line between central Serbia and Kosovo-Metohija, Manic said at th

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EULEX chief: 20 suspects in war crimes case (Vecernje Novosti, Blic, B92)

Gabriele Meucci says that so far about 20 suspects have been identified who may be subject to an indictment for war crimes committed in 1999 in Gjakova/Djakovica. The head of the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, told the Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti daily that he did not wish to reveal their names.

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Vulin: Recognition of Kosovo is not an option (RTS, Blic, Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Serbia will not recognize the independence of Kosovo that was unilaterally proclaimed by ethnic Albanians, Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy Aleksandar Vulin said Monday. “Recognition (independence) of Kosovo is not an option,” Vulin told reporters in his comment on a statement made by Vice-President and Special Rapporteur of the European Parliament on Kosovo Ulrike Lunacek, in which she said that normalization of relations and recognition of Kosovo would be a condition for Serbia’s accession to the European Union (EU). There is no document for some

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Chauprade: Recognition of Kosovo - historic mistake (Blic, RTK2,Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)

BELGRADE - Paris has made a historic mistake by recognizing Kosovo's independence, Aymeric Chauprade, European parliamentarian from France, has said, stressing that the 1999 NATO war against Serbia assisted the separatist tendencies of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, and the European Union (EU) followed the policy pursued by the United States. Kosovo can never join the EU because it is a hotbed of crime and is responsible for ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanians, Chauprade said in an interview for Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti. Unfortunately, everything seems to be a con

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AI: Serbs in Kosovo subject to attacks and discrimination (Tanjug, Blic, Akter)

LONDON - Amnesty International (AI), a human rights NGO, states in its annual report on the human rights situation in Serbia that Serbs are still subject to attacks and other minorities discriminated against in Kosovo, and a special court to try former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is expected to be set up there as well. “Violence in the north of Kosovo, inter-ethnic attacks and discrimination against minorities continued,” AI, one of the few international organizations still looking at the southern Serbian province as part of Serbia in its reports, observed in its 2014/15 inter

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Cuba will continue to back Serbia's position on KiM (Tanjug, IRS)

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic talked in Belgrade on Wednesday with Cuban Ambassador Adela Mayra Ruiz Garcia, who underscored that Cuba will continue to back Serbia's position on Kosovo-Metohija. That is the matter of principle, and in relation to that, nothing will change in Cuba's policy, Ruiz Garcia said, thanking President Nikolic on Serbia's support in the UN General Assembly, the president's press office stated in a statement. Speaking about a thaw in Cuba-U.S.

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