FM: Serbia supports fight against terrorism (B92/Tanjug)
BRUSSELS -- Serbia supports the fight against all forms of terrorism and is ready to promote cooperation with all countries of the Western Balkans, said Ivica Dacic.
Gasic, Dikovic welcome Serbian peacekeepers (Tanjug)
NIS - Serbian Armed Forces troops returning from the UNIFIL multinational operation in Lebanon were given a ceremonial welcome at the Constantine the Great Airport in Nis on Tuesday.
A company from the 21st Infantry Battalion of the Land Forces 2nd Brigade was welcomed by Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic and the Serbian Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Ljubisa Dikovic.
Vucic, Liberman on political cooperation,situation in region (Tanjug)
BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic conferred in Jerusalem on Tuesday with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on the two countries' political and economic cooperation.
The two officials also discussed the situation in the Western Balkan region, the Serbian government office for media relations has stated.
Vucic thanked Israel for its support to preservation of Serbia's territorial integrity and non-recognition of Kosovo's independence, which was unilaterally proclaimed by ethnic Albanians in Serbia's southern province.
Berlin to back chapter opening upon fulfilment of conditions (Tanjug)
BERLIN - The German government welcomed the progress Serbia made and noted that Berlin will back the opening of negotiating chapters as soon as the conditions set by the EU are fulfilled, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin stated in a release submitted to Tanjug.
Germany not conditioning, has different approach (RTS, Tanjug)
Serbian Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration Jadranka Joksimovic stated on Saturday that Germany is not conditioning Serbia and that is just has a different approach to the Serbia-EU talks, and expressed the hope that a good solution would soon be found and that the first chapter in the talks would open soon.
Road sign to greater Albania appears in Vitina/Viti (Tanjug)
A road sign listing the distances from Vitina/Viti to cities that should come under a greater Albania has been put up in the downtown of this eastern Kosovo municipality to mark the Albanian Flag Day, observed in Albania on November 28.
The road sign lists the distances from Vitina/Viti to the city of Nis and Presevo in southern part of central Serbia, Ulcinj on the Montenegrin coast and Janjina in Greece.
Djuric: Few returnees in Kosovo (Tanjug)
SKOPJE - A very small number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) returned to the southern Serbian province in the past 15 years, Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric warned during the two-day regional conference in Skopje.
During the conflicts in Kosovo, around 230,000 people were displaced, while 23,000 more Serbs, Roma and other non-Albanians were internally displaced in the province itself. Several thousand IDPs returned to the province until now.
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.
More Hungarian soldiers in Kosovo and Bosnia (B92/Tanjug)
BELGRADE -- Hungarian army chief Tibor Benko says the number of Hungarian soldiers in Kosovo and Bosnia would increase as the forces withdraw from Afghanistan.
"We need to set up strong and firm cooperation in the Balkan region because it bears major importance for both sides, which is why the decision has been adopted that the number of troops in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina should increase simultaneously with the withdrawal of soldiers from Afghanistan," Benko said in Belgrade.
Djuric: Serbia wants stability in KiM (Tanjug)
BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric said Friday it was Serbia’s great interest to see that stability and the rule of law were there in KiM, arguing that the current situation in the province was worse than before the Brussels agreement.