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Reception held for participants of UN missions conference (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has hosted a reception for the participants of a regional conference on involvement of Western Balkan states in United Nations peacekeeping missions. Serbia will make a full contribution to the role of the United Nations in preserving peace in the world, Dacic said late Monday. "We cannot influence the creation of global policies, but we can make a contribution to preserving security and peace in the world through peacekeeping missions," Dacic said. He noted that he wants "our region to be the one that sends many people to peacekeeping mission

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Dacic, Ashton to hold farewell meeting in Brussels (Tanjug)

BRUSSELS - Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic will arrive in Brussels Tuesday for a farewell meeting with outgoing EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton. Over the last two years, Ashton has facilitated the dialogue on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, where Dacic participated as prime minister in the previous Serbian government. Ashton’s place at the helm of the EU’s external action will be taken over by Federica Mogherini, former Italian foreign minister. Before leaving for Brussels, Dacic told reporters that besides with Ashton, he would also meet with newly

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Djuric urges UNMIK chief to encourage Kfor, Eulex (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric urged Farid Zarif, the head of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), on Monday to additionally encourage Kfor, Eulex and the Pristina authorities to ensure security to Serbs in the province. After a meeting with Zarif, Djuric told reporters that the incidents in the wake of the recent Serbia vs Albania soccer match in Belgrade - targeting Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, as well as ethnic Albanians in other parts of Serbia - are worthy of every form of condemnation. "The inciden

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Djuric: Zarif to further encourage KFOR and EULEX (Tanjug)

The Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric, asked the Head of UNMIK, Farid Zarif, to further encourage KFOR, EULEX and Pristina institutions, to provide safety for Serbs in the province. After the meeting with Zarif, he addressed journalists and said that incidents which occurred after the football match between the Serbian and Albanian national teams in Belgrade, as well as incidents against Serbs in Kosovo, and those against Albanians in other parts of Serbia, deserve condemnation. Djuric said that he conveyed a message to his

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Serbia stands ready to boost its UN peacekeeping role (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said during a meeting with United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous in Belgrade on Monday that Serbia stood ready to increase its contributions to UN peacekeeping operations. Nikolic stressed the importance of UN peacekeeping forces and their contribution to the preservation of stability in the world, especially in Southeastern Europe. “The role of UNMIK in Kosovo-Metohija is extremely valuable to Serbia and we hope that the scope and mandate of the mission will remain unchanged,” said President Nikolic. S

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Greater Albania nightmare of Europe and mankind (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic wrote on Twitter that the project of Greater Albania is not only Serbia's nightmare, but also the nightmare of Europe and all mankind, stressing that it must be prevented. "People who say that Greater Albania is our nightmare are absolutely right. But this is not only our nightmare, it is also the nightmare of Europe and all mankind, and we will do all in our power to prevent it.

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Djuric condemns attacks against ethnic Albanians (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Marko Djuric, director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija, condemned on Sunday the attacks on property of members of the Albanian minority in Serbia that took place over the last few days in several cities in Serbia following the incident at the football match between Serbia and Albania. Djuric urged the authorities to find and punish those who vandalized shops and bakeries owned by ethic Albanians, who are "honest and loyal citizens of our state, our good neighbors, friends and acq

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Effort made to go through with Albanian PM's visit (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Albanian Ambassador in Belgrade Ilir Bocka said on Thursday evening that an effort is being made to go through with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's visit to Belgrade, scheduled for October 22, and voiced confidence that the Albanian side was not behind the recent incident with a 'Greater Albania' map. Bocka also noted that the Serbian authorities should unequivocally condemn the extremist behavior during the match between the national teams of Serbia and Albania in Belgrade on Tuesday. The latest information from the Mini

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Platini: Imagine drone had carried bomb instead of flag (Tanjug)

PARIS - UEFA President Michel Platini said that the situation concerning the European qualifier between Serbia and Albania is not innocuous at all, and posed a question as to what would have happened if the drone flying over the Partizan stadium in Belgrade had carried a bomb instead of a flag. We opened an investigation. We will wait for the reports from Belgrade, but just imagine that the drone had carried a bomb instead of a flag.

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