The Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Đurić, claims that recognition of the independence of Kosovo is in no way an option for the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, and that the result of the talks should be normalization of relations between institutions to the extent that no one has to fear for his or her future.
NEW YORK - Serbia welcomes the adoption of the resolution on foreign fighters and it is ready to step up the cooperation with all countries in the region and the wider community in the fight against terrorism, Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said in New York on Wednesday.
Dacic attended a meeting of the UN Security Council chaired by U.S. President Barack Obama.
NEW YORK - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly session in New York on Wednesday.
According to the readout of the meeting, Ban and Nikolic exchanged views on Serbia's EU integration process, the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, the cooperation between the United Nations and Serbia, including Serbia's role in UN-mandated peacekeeping missions, as well as the country's upcoming OSCE Chairmanship.
NEW YORK - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has attended a reception US President Barack Obama hosted for the world leaders gathered for a meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York.
The reception was held on Tuesday and Nikolic thanked his US counterpart for the invitation and said that Serbia supported in full the US efforts against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Obama thanked Nikolic, commended him on good work and expressed hope that he would continue in that fashion, the Serbian delegation told Tanjug.
NEW YORK - EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele believes that there is a chance for Brussels and Belgrade to cross an important threshold before the year ends and to open the first two of 35 policy chapters which Serbia must address to join the EU.
“I think we still believe that would be possible before the end of this year,” Fuele said in an interview for Wall Street Journal.
Nevertheless, he warned that progress depends on the member states as well as Belgrade, since EU capitals must okay the move.
NEW YORK - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will attend on Wednesday the opening of the general debate of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly and have a whole series of bilateral meetings.
Nikolic will meet with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Angolan Vice President Domingos Vicente, Latvian President Andris Berzins and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski.
He will also meet with his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor and the Holy See Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolino.
NEW YORK - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla on Monday, on the sidelines of the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
In the meeting, the first in a series of activities on Dacic's agenda this week, the bilateral cooperation between Serbia and Cuba was described as excellent, Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a release.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Participation of Serbs in the Kosovo government alongside those who are openly inciting hatred and a cessation of the talks with Belgrade is unacceptable, says the head of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric.
Participation in the Kosovo government alongside all those who are openly calling for thwarting the establishment of the community of Serb municipalities, those who are inciting hatred and a cessation of the talks with Serbia, its institutions and the Serbian people as a whole, is unacceptable, Djuric said on Friday.
BRUSSELS - The EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy Catherine Ashton has welcomed the agreement reached earlier this week between Serbia's and Kosovo's power transmission companies with EU mediation.
"Through this agreement between the Transmission System Operators energy relations between Pristina and Belgrade will be normalised, and KOSTT can play its role of managing the high-voltage networks in Kosovo," Ashton said in a press release late Friday.
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The overall results of the return of displaced persons to Kosovo-Metohija over the past decade and a half are unsatisfactory, says the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric.
The efforts related to the return of displaced persons to Kosovo-Metohija must be doubled, and ensuring the return of at least some of the more than 247,000 persons to the province is a great responsibility, Djuric told a press conference in Kosovska Mitrovica.