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Busek: Serbia should recognize Kosovo as soon as possible (Zeri/Klan Kosova)

Erhard Busek, the former head of the Stability Pact, told Klan Kosova on Thursday that Serbia should recognize the independence of Kosovo as soon as possible. Busek said the only way toward the European Union is to acknowledge the new reality in the Balkans and added that full reconciliation between Kosovo and Serbia will take time. Commenting on the issue of visa liberalization for Kosovo, Busek said the isolation of Kosovars is not right.

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Bring back Serbs into the Kosovo institutions (KoSSev, Danas)

EP member and Vice-President of the Socialist & Democrats group, Tanja Fajon, voiced the opinion that the opening of the first chapters in the Serbia's negotiations with the EU should occur as soon as possible. "And in the resolution of the European Parliament on the progress of Serbia, we invited the European Commission to immediately start the negotiations," she told Danas newspapers on the eve of today's vote on the final version of the resolution on Serbia's progress in European integration. Speaking on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina in the context of EU

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Belgrade, Pristina police directors discuss migrants issue (Tanjug, Akter)

Serbian Police Director Milorad Veljovic met in Belgrade Tuesday with the police director from Pristina, Spend Maxhuni, to discuss the issue of increased influx of migrants from Kosovo in the countries of the European Union, the Serbian Ministry of Interior said in a release. The police directors also talked about joint efforts in the fight against all forms of organized crime and security related incidents along the administrative line between central Serbia and Kosovo. Veljovic and Maxhuni also discussed the ongoing investigation into the killing of Serbian Gendarmerie member Stevan Sindje

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Brasseur: Council of Europe is not giving up on Dick Marty’s report (IRS)

The Council of Europe has not given up on establishing truth about allegations of the CoE Parliamentary Assembly Rapporteur Dick Marty on trafficking in human organs in Kosovo, stated President of the CoE Parliamentary Assembly Anne Brasseur in Belgrade, where she gave a lecture on Council of Europe to students of the School of Political Sciences. According to her, it is important to establish truth on the missing and the Council of Europe continues

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Slobodan Milosevic Street? Not likely, warns Kosovo government (Reuters)

Kosovo's government warned ethnic Serbs on Monday not to follow through on a decision to name a street after late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, whose crackdown in the former Serbian province triggered war with NATO in 1999.

An estimated 10,000 ethnic Albanians were killed in Kosovo and almost 1 million were put to flight during a brutal counter-insurgency war waged by forces under Milosevic in 1998-99, before NATO intervened with 78 days of air strikes and Kosovo embarked on a path to independence in 2008.

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Rustemov:Kazakhstan will not recognize Kosovo's independence (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Kazakh Ambassador to Serbia Nurbah Rustemov said during a meeting he had with Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic Thursday that his country would never recognize the independence of Kosovo, unilaterally proclaimed by ethnic Albanians in 2008. Ljajic and Ambassador Rustemov, accredited to Serbia on a non-residential basis, discussed ways to improve overall relations between the two countries and opportunities to promote economic cooperation. They agreed that 2015 should see the holding of the first meeting of th

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Dialogue between Presevo Valley Albanians and Serbian Government to resume (Koha net)

Political representatives of the Presevo Valley requested officially today during a meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Local Self-Government, Kori Udovicki, continuance of the dialogue with the Government of Serbia, with the intention of integration of Albanian community it the state institutions of Serbia. The news was confirmed by the Albanian deputy at Serbia’s Parliament, Shaip Kamberi.

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"OSCE and Serbia" receive support at UN - FM (B92)

Ivica Dacic says he is satisfied with a briefing at the UN Security Council on Tuesday, considering that "both the OSCE and Serbia received support." "I am satisfied, because this is an indication that the OSCE, and Serbia as the presiding country, have the right approach and have realized the role to be an objective and honest broker in the fulfillment of what constitutes an agreement," Dacic, Serbia's foreign minister and OSCE chairperson was quoted as saying, and adding: " "The (UN) SC's support is important, and that we received today, for the functioning of the OSCE and in general our p

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