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Serbia marks World War I Armistice Day (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Serbia marks the World War I Armistice Day as its national holiday on Tuesday. The day commemorates Germany's capitulation that led to the cessation of WWI hostilities. The capitulation was signed in a railway carriage in Compiegne, France, on November 11, 1918 at 11:00 a.m. During WWI, which started with the attack of Austria-Hungary on Serbia, the map of Europe was irreversibly altered, among other things due to fierce resistance of Serbs.

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Popov: Rama abused visit to Belgrade (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama abused his visit to Belgrade for personal promotion and inter-political purposes, Director of Centre for Regionalism NGO Aleksandar Popov stated on Monday. In reaction to the provocation voiced by the Albanian prime minister who called on Serbia to recognise Kosovo as an independent state in his address to the media after the talks with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, Popov said that Rama in this way attempted to present himself as the man who has guts. In this way, Rama attempted to

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Protest in Kosovska Mitrovica over Rama's provocation (Tanjug)

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The Serbs in northern Kosovska Mitrovica protested on Monday afternoon over the political provocation by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama who stated in Belgrade earlier in the day that Serbia should recognize Kosovo's independence. Citizens started gathering near the main bridge over the Ibar River, separating the majority-Serb part from the Albanian part of Kosovska Mitrovica, as soon as the media reported that Rama stated that Kosovo is an independent state, and that this is the reality that cannot be changed. Protesters gave

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Simic: Rama did not resist nationalist impulse (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Monday's meeting between the Serbian and Albanian prime ministers, Aleksandar Vucic and Edi Rama respectively, is a missed opportunity for improving the relations between the two countries, as the Albanian prime minister evidently did not resist the nationalist impulse, political analyst Predrag Simic noted. Simic, Serbia's former ambassador to France, described Rama's call on Serbia to recognize the independence of Kosovo-Metohija as a diplomatic incident, and underscored that the Albanian prime minister's behavior during the joint press conference

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Former building of Mitrovica Municipal Assembly stoned (Kim radio, Kontakt Plus Radio, Tanjug)

Unknown persons have stoned the building that used to house the Municipal Assembly of Kosovska Mitrovica leaving no one injured. At the moment of the attack, which took place on Tuesday evening, only security staff was in the building that now hosts the Civil Protection Service, and as they said no material damage was caused since the stones only hit the façade or fell in front of the building. They also underlined that they did not see the attackers, and that they assume that the stones were whirled using a slingshot. This is not the first time that this building was attacked, recently it

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UN Security Council meeting on Kosovo set for November 13 (Tanjug,NMagazin,Akter,Blic)

The UN Security Council will meet to discuss the quarterly report on Kosovo by UN Scretary General Ban Ki-moon on November 13. According to the provisional meeting schedule posted on the UN website, the Security Council will hold a debate on the situation in Kosovo on November 13. Ban said in his most recent report, covering the period from April 16 to July 15, that the Kosovo authorities and the EU should make sure that a special court was established no later than early 2015 to deal with war crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo in 1999. Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica

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Families of missing want results of corruption investigation (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - The association gathering families of Serb and other non-Albanian victims in Kosovo in the period since 1998 to date released on Tuesday that they are eagerly expecting the results of the investigation on corruption in top tiers of EULEX international mission in the southern Serbian province. The Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in KiM has been repeating for years that EULEX has done almost nothing, just like UNMIK and KFOR, to discover the truth about war crimes committed against Serbs and other non-Albanians and prosecute the individual

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