Interview: Vladimir Vukcevic, the War crimes prosecutor
The Prime Minister said recently that only the case of murder of the Bytyqi brothers hampers excellent relations with the United States. Is there any progress in the case that you took over?
Continuation of political negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina was announced for 25 August and talks could be completed by signing four new agreements, claim the EU sources.
Although Ivica Dacic recently announced that Greek PM Alexis Tsipras will visit Serbia in the fall, two Belgrade based newspapers say this will not happen
Thus the daily Blic writes that the package of conditions that Greece must fulfill to receive financial assistance from the West includes recognizing Kosovo.
Greece is one of five EU countries that do not recognize the unilateral declaration of independence made by ethnic Albanians in 2008.
Self-Determination movement has announced that, if Kosovo government accepts to create Association/Community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo, they will stage most radical protests seen so far, “on the verge of a war”. Is it about a new wave of Serbophobia due to the creation of the special war crimes court in Kosovo, or about efforts in introduction of some discipline in Self-Determination, since there are some speculations in political circles that pacification of this movement, what is mostly worked on by Washington, is on the crossroad?
Belgrade and Pristina contrary on membership in UNESCO
The deputy head of Kosovo diplomacy Petrit Selimi, yesterday denied the statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dacic that the United Nations did not accept to forward Kosovo's application for admission into UNESCO.
Lead Prosecutor of the Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) that investigates war crimes and organized crime allegations deriving from the Council of Europe special rapporteur Dick Marty’s report, David Schwendiman, said to Danas that amendments and the law adopted by the Kosovo parliament on 3 August provides that SITF lead prosecutor could be appointed as a special prosecutor.
A large number of the members of the Serbian MIA and Civil protection who have lost their jobs, selection of Serbian judges and prosecutors for the Kosovo judicial system, Ivanovic’s case and seizure of the church property are the results of the Brussels agreement. In the long term they may endanger the survival of the Serbian people and its cultural heritage in Kosovo and Metohija, claim current and former member of the Assembly of Kosovo, Nenad Rasic and Rada Trajkovic.
Zvezdana Kovac, Executive Director of the Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe from Thessaloniki (CDRS) will host premieres of Serbia and Albania in a TV show "Okruzenje".
Belgrade does not believe Pristina has the administrative capacities or sincere intention to bring to justice perpetrators of horrendous crimes of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), Director of the Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric has said.
Currently, on the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage, the Serbian monuments in Kosovo are under Serbia. However, in July at the meeting of the Committee for World Heritage, without discussion was decided that these are ‘medieval monuments in Kosovo.’