Regional meeting within the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), held in Albanian coastal town of Vlore on Friday, was interrupted after an incident involving Kosovo's representatives, which Serbia's officials assessed as ''chauvinistic'', according to Serbian media.
Serbia has a need to constantly be present on the American continent to be able to protect its national and state interest in the best way, Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said during his visit to Bogotá, RTS reported on Saturday.
Addressing the 49th session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the Colombian capital Dacic said that Serbia has become an observer state in many American associations, with the OAS as the largest ones.
By majority of votes the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) rejected a proposal for Kosovo to become a member of the EBU, RTS reported.
RTS Assistant Director Milivoje Mihajlovic, who represented RTS in a meeting in Oslo, said Kosovo failed to join the EBU by precedent given that 673 voted against and 400 for changing the statute.
He pointed out the process lasted longer than a year and was initiated by five public broadcasters from the region – Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, North Macedonia and Hungary.
KFOR’s statement on hazardous waste disposal in several locations in Kosovo and that it is kept under inadequate conditions has confirmed our doubts that barrels transported by the trucks to the former Footwear and Leather Factory contain hazardous chemicals and that our protest was justified, inhabitants of Gorazdevac village said, Vecernje Novosti reported.
Luckily, this time representatives of the international community took our protest seriously, they added.
First Basic Prosecution in Belgrade has rejected the lawsuit Rada Trajkovic filed against the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric over endangering her safety, Danas daily reports.
''A shock message by the Alliance to the Serbs, NATO: Take the north of Kosovo, we will not interfere'' – Belgrade tabloids wrote early in the week, referring to the idea of the chair of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies, Jelena Milic, wrote Kosovo north portal KoSSev.
KoSSev added that Milic, for years, has openly advocated what was perceived in Serbia as a pro-NATO stance, while recently, since last year, she also represented the ideas interpreted as a proponent of the partition of Kosovo along ethnic lines.
Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said last night Pristina’s claims that Interpol General Assembly would consider Kosovo request to join this organization are inaccurate, Tanjug news agency reported.
He added claims by the Pristina officials represent pressure on members of the Executive Committee and they happen at the moment while the session is still ongoing.
The introduction of 100 percent tariffs on goods from central Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina over the last seven months, as well as shortage of basic commodities in the north of Kosovo over the last couple of days affect the work of the Hospital Centre in Mitrovica North, Director of the Center Milan Ivanovic said, Radio KIM reports.
Serbian National Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Chairman Milovan Drecun said “the final phase of Pristina’s tariffs plan” is currently underway with the aim to provoke conflict with the Serbs and Serbian state, BETA news agency reported.
“Pristina works on it to cause conflict,” Drecun told TV Pink.
According to him, causing humanitarian disaster, respectively, leaving the Serbs without basic commodities is a tool towards the aim – to disable the dialogue and create conditions for conflict with Serbian state.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said the government would do its utmost to enable that the goods from central Serbia would reach all people in Kosovo and Metohija, Tanjug news agency reported.
She also expressed hope that the international community would start paying greater attention to it and enable free flows of goods in addition to the calls to lift the tariffs.
“I am not a big optimist, since November 21 they did not care much about the fact that media in Serbian language from central Serbia were banned in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija,” Brnabic said.