We are facing difficult talks with the West, which expects a swift resolution of the Kosovo issue, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Belgrade based TV Prva this morning.
Serbian media quotes Vucic as saying that "it is not only a matter of deadline, it is a matter of substance when it comes to KiM", emphasizing that "the problem is what we will agree".
Serbian customs and police officers seized two barrels and other machine gun parts from two Kosovo Albanians at the border crossing at Sid, the Customs Authority said on Thursday.
The two Kosovo Albanian brothers tried to bribe customs officers in an effort to avoid a search of their German-registered Audi car. They were stopped for a search on their way out of Serbia at the border crossing with Croatia.
Customs officers also found 30,000 Euros in forged banknotes and a flag of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), TV N1 reports.
Serbia announces the launch of diplomatic campaign in the US Congress in the fall, Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti daily reports. According to the daily Belgrade had decided to embark on a campaign in order to present real state of affairs on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija to the US public and to the US officials, including the monstrous crimes committed against the Serbs on Kosovo and Metohija by the KLA.
President of European Serb Movement from Kosovo Rada Trajkovic announced a new coalition of Serbian parties and organizations that would take part in the possible extraordinary elections in Kosovo, TV N1 reports. On the other hand, Srpska Lista said it is a plan to destroy the Serbian community from within.
Association “Kosmetske zrtve” (Kosmet Victims) said it is disgraceful that Rada Trajkovic on a daily basis in domestic and Albanian media without any evidence attacks the leadership of Serbia and Srpska Lista representatives, in particular Milan Radojicic over alleged involvement in the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, Tanjug news agency reported.
According to the Association, by such attacks Rada Trajkovic tries to shift attention of the public from a central subject and it is the crimes against Serbs committed by Haradinaj, Thaci, Veseli and Limaj.
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said that the US President's National Security Advisory John Bolton might visit the region in late August, B92 reports. Dacic stated there are good prospects for Bolton's visit to Serbia if there are some positive indications that Pristina might revoke the tariffs.
Albanians from Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja municipalities have sent a complaint to the Albanian National Council regarding decision not to recognize Serbian passports at the Pristina airport, Tanjug news agency reports, referring to Kosovo-online portal.
According to the portal, the Council has sent an urgent request to the Kosovo Foreign Affairs Ministry to exclude Albanians from the three southern Serbian municipalities from this measure.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic reacting to Pristina’s ban for Serbian passports said that “in quasi-state of Kosovo" one cannot make head or tail of the situation. She also noted that it reflects how the situation in Kosovo and Metohija is unsafe.
“The adviser of their Foreign Affairs Minister said it is forbidden that citizens with Serbian documents pass, Haradinaj said it was not forbidden, then the adviser again said it is,” Brnabic added.
Pristina authorities are constantly finding out new ways to impede the freedom of ordinary people of all ethnicities, Serbs in particular, and they do not hide their intolerance towards them, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said.
Chairperson of the Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun said “that Serbian citizens should not travel to the southern province with passports but with the ID cards only”, RTS reports.
Ministry of Internal Affairs State Secretary Biljana Popovic-Ivkovic said Serbia will do everything to prevent Kosovo to join Interpol, B92 reports. Pristina submitted a request to join the Interpol for the fourth time.
“Eventual admission of Kosovo to Interpol would represent a politicization of this international police organization and create a major precedent with unforeseen consequences for other Interpol member states,” Popovic-Ivkovic said during the meeting with the Ambassador of Indonesia to Serbia, Mochammad Chandra Widya.