KFOR Commander Major-General Salvatore Couci said KFOR was ready to intervene during the visit of the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Serbian media report today. In a statement to Prva TV, General Couci said Kosovo institutions made the decision to avoid Vucic’s visit to Banje village, explaining that KFOR is a third security provider in Kosovo. “Police comes first, then EULEX, and then it is us. We were deployed to deal with the security of the Serbian President and this is what we did.

On his two-day visit to Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic denied the two countries were near a solution to their dispute, and was prevented from visiting a Serb-majority village. “Do we have any draft solutions in Brussels?

GAZIVODE LAKE, Kosovo (Reuters) - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic pledged to continue talks with Kosovo officials to resolve differences but warned it would take a long time to reach a broad deal with Pristina that could allow both nations to move towards EU membership. Expectations of an agreement that would involve a land swap, a proposal floated by both Belgrade and Pristina, dimmed after a face-to-face meeting between Vucic and his Kosovo counterpart, Hashim Thaci, was abruptly cancelled on Friday. See at:

President Aleksandar Vucic completed his two-day visit to Kosovo and Metohija on Sunday by addressing citizens at the central square in Mitrovica North. The second day of Vucic's visit to Kosovo was marked by incidents and the roadblocks put up by ethnic Albanians on the way to the Serb village of Banje. The president then decided to return to Mitrovica North, as police informed him that the blockades were two kilometers ahead of the convoy, and that it was not safe to continue the trip. Vucic told Serbs in Mitrovica North that his obligation was to say that Serbia will always be with its p

Frozen conflict in Kosovo at this moment is a better solution, since an agreement on normalization of relations would encompass swift and hasty measures and would in fact represent a legal act on the recognition of Kosovo, former Minister for Kosovo and Metohija and Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade Professor, Slobodan Samardzic told FoNet news agency. According to Samardzic hasty reached agreement can not resolve conflict that lasts more than 120 years, adding that the entire process in reaching a compromise seeks time to inform the public about it. “It is an entire set of negotiati

EU High Representative, Federica Mogherini said today, after separate meetings with Serbian and Kosovo presidents, Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci, that there are still difficulties, while the next high-level meeting would be scheduled prior to the Ministerial week of the UN General Assembly in New York, Tanjug news agency reported. Mogherini added she is convinced in the full commitment of the both presidents to continue negotiation process and reach in the forthcoming months legally binding agreement on comprehensive normalization of relations in line with international law.

Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic urged the international community “not to test Serbia’s patience and understanding,” BETA news agency is reporting. Brnabic underlined that the international community should understand the severity of the situation in Belgrade-Pristina negotiations and act in line with it. She added “strong patience” is needed to talk to Albanian representatives in Kosovo and Metohija, since they are “unserious, irresponsible and unpredictable,” and that she “does not understand some representatives of the international community who do not react to the lack of implementat

The situation in Kosovo and Metohija will not be discussed at the UN Security Council in September. This will not happen because the US, which this month presides over this body of the world organization, did not include the report of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the agenda, Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti reported. The Americans is this way followed the example of the British, who in August, as the presiding country, violated a decades-long practice of discussing the sit

An operational group of British intelligence agency MI6 was relocated from Macedonia to Kosovo and Metohija on Wednesday, and the reason behind such a move is the arrival of Serbian President Vucic in Kosovo. This is according to Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti, referring to well informed source from intelligence structures. Vecernje Novosti further reported the visit of the Serbian President Vucic in Kosovo belongs to a group of high-risks visit, and that is why different structures are interested in it, from political and security aspects.