When Minister without portfolio Nenad Popovic said “the Brussels Agreement is dead” and there is “no integration into the EU for Serbia anymore,” he was not expressing the view of the Serbian Government, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on Saturday, TV N1 reported.
“Every minister in the government is obliged to implement the agreed-upon policy, those not able to do so are free to leave,” Brnabic added.
The Central African Republic (CAR) has become the 14th country to withdraw recognition of the independence of Kosovo, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said.
"The Central African Republic became the fourteenth country that clarified its position that it does not recognize the independence of Kosovo", Dacic told RTS. He presented an official note that he received last night from CAR, a country he visited last year and met with its president on that occasion.
On Sunday, Bishop of Raska-Prizren Teodosije refuted the claims published by some Belgrade-based media that the late Patriarch Pavle was in favour of the division of Kosovo, reported Serbian media.
Bishop Teodosije opined that “the idea of a territorial-ethnic division of Serbia in KiM, which is nothing but an invitation for the betrayal of Kosovo, people and the state, all of us are being brought into a state of further confusion and hopelessness”.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said the importance of continuing Belgrade-Pristina dialogue was discussed today during her meeting with EU Enlargement and Neighbourly Policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn, Radio kontakt plus reported. She also expressed a hope an initiative that would enable Pristina to reconsider its stances and turn towards the regional cooperation would emerge.
President of European Serb Movement from Kosovo and Metohija Rada Trajkovic said the fact that Ramush Haradinaj did not speak about the details of the indictment and the hearing before The Hague Special Court indicates that perhaps there were questions related to the murders of Albanians, and this, according to Trajkovic, would negatively affect his rating, TV N1 reports.
Trajkovic said in a statement to FoNet news agency that KLA lead by Ramush Haradinaj and Hashim Thaci as one of its aims had the conflict with the-then Kosovo leader Ibrahim Rugova and his people.
France remains committed to having good relations with Serbia and will remain its friend, outgoing French Ambassador to Serbia Fredric Mondoloni told FoNet news agency. He underlined that the recent visit to Belgrade by French President Emmanuel Macron gave a fresh impulse to the development of the two countries’ relations, adding that his successor would be arriving very soon because Paris does not want to leave a vacuum following the visit.
Commenting on return of Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj from The Hague, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Prva TV he has already said Haradinaj would spend 24 or 48 hours there and then come back.
“I have already said he would spent 24 or 48 hours there. Enough to check what hotels there are like. He waited to come during the night so the image would be more impressive, like a hero,” Vucic said.
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic welcomed yesterday in Belgrade newly-appointed Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Serbia Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko and stated that mutual support and the traditional friendship of the two peoples are the key for the exceptionally good results of Serbia and Russia, Serbian Government announced on its website.
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said in the Serbian Assembly that he hopes to announce another country's withdrawal of Kosovo recognition in a day or two, B92 reports.
This would be the fourteenth country to do so.
Dacic stated that since Kosovo declaration of independence (in 2008), up till 2012, 84 countries had recognized Kosovo, while starting from 2014, when he assumed the role of Foreign Affairs Minister, 13 states had revoked Kosovo's recognition, while seven states had recognized Kosovo's independence.
Serbian leadership is ready to sign whatever it takes for Kosovo if it gets guarantees that it won’t fall from power, wrote Moscow Carnegie Center, B92 reports.
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj’s trip to the Hague, on the other hand, does not promise quick progress in resolving the Kosovo issue. Serbian leadership, having learned from past experience, has skeptically accepted the news and believes that his Hague departure is yet another trick performed by the West to force Belgrade to make fresh concessions, the Carnegie Moscow Center stated.