Recognition of the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and maintaining a legal regime of protection for 44 facilities that represent special zones of Serbian cultural and religious heritage, will be among the key demands of Belgrade during the dialogue on a comprehensive solution for normalizing relations with Pristina, writes Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday he was in favor of "delineation" with the Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija.
"I am in favor - and this is my policy - of delineation with the Albanians. To have a territory which it is not known who is treating it in what way, and what belongs to whom - that it is always a source of potential conflict," Vucic told reporters in the town of Sid.
He added that he "cannot talk about what he is negotiating about with the Kosovo Albanians" - as he would in that way "reveal Serbia's cards in the negotiations."
Serbian media reports that on 15 September President of Russia, Vladimir Putin will host Aleksandar Vucic President of Serbia to discuss a solution to Kosovo’s issue.
Before meeting Putin, in their 13th official encounter in several years, and the third since Vucic became the president, he will have another round of talks with Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci in Brussels, within the framework of the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue facilitated by the European Union, planned for early next month.
OSCE's media freedom representative has told the EFJ he began consultations with the president of the Serbian Commission Investigating Murders of Journalists.
The commission is headed by Veran Matic.
OSCE's Harlem Desir said that the consultations began on how to reopen investigations into the killings and disappearances of 14 journalists and media workers in Kosovo and Metohija, the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) announced on Wednesday.
Opposition People's Party (NS) leader Vuk Jeremic says the Alliance for Serbia will be formally established in September.
Jeremic told Beta that opposition leaders will this month present a 30-point program of the Alliance for Serbia "in direct communication with citizens across the country" - and that they are "open to suggestions and willing to accept any good idea."
“Those who think that they can divide us and separate our people and bring us into a situation to leave this ancient area where our soul is elevated, where we keep the land deeds given to us by the holy Nemanjićs, we say to them that they are badly mistaken” Bishop Teodosije said during the “Moleban” service in Gracanica Monastery.
“Many powerful men before their time did not succeed in doing so,” Bishop Teodosije said in front of believers who attended the “Moleban for Kosovo and Metohija” in the Gračanica Monastery.
Announcement of the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic that all citizens in Serbia should take over responsibility in relation to Kosovo, is a result of immature politics, analysts in Kosovo told Radio KIM.
Commenting on this announcement, political analyst Stefan Filipovic said it is easier to shift the blame for your failures to the people.
Fatherland Movement reacted to an open letter Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic sent to the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija last Friday, KoSSev portal reported.
In its reaction Fatherland Movement underlined “it is nice to hear President Vucic is concerned that people in Kosovo and Metohija do not face “Storm” operation, however we had lived through “Storm” already in 1999 when more than 200.000 Serbs have left their century-long home places. Since you were in power then, it would be too much to live through two “Storms” during your rule.”
Opposition LDP leader Cedomir Jovanovic has over the past few months discussed the establishment of the Coalition for Peace with "individuals from the region."
As he said, the organization could be presented in September, Beta agency was told by the party.
Jovanovic had meetings in Zagreb, Podgorica, Pristina, Sarajevo, and will soon go to Skopje to talk to people who also have the idea of connecting in the region.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, termed statements of Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic who said Pristina’s maximal requests, including recognition plus Presevo and Bujanovac are the main obstacle to resolve the Kosovo issue, as his personal stance and not the stance of the Serbian Government, TV N1 reported.
Expressing personal stances does not bother the government, Brnabic said, adding that different stances could be heard since the launch on internal dialogue on Kosovo.