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PM says he is ready to pay repsects in Srebrenica (B92)

"If Bosniaks want it and if that is not an additional difficulty for them, I will be ready to honor Muslim victims in Srebrenica," says Aleksandar Vucic.

As prime minister I am ready to bow and lower my head and show what kind of relationship we Serbs have towards the innocent victims of Srebrenica. That those 99.9 percent of Serbs who did not participate in the crime can go with their head held high anywhere in the world," Vucic said in remarks to the media in Belgrade on Friday.

PM on Haradinaj arrest: "Strange things are happening" (B92)

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has commented on the arrest of Ramush Haradinaj in Slovenia on Wednesday to say that "some strange things are happening."

In a statement for B92, he said this was "the 50th time that Haradinaj was traveling using that same diplomatic passport, and is now being arrested a few days before (Kosovo) negotiations in Brussels."

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Eurostat: Over quarter of asylum seekers come from Kosovo (Tanjug)

Over one quarter of 185,000 people who applied for asylum in the EU in the first quarter of the year are inhabitants of Kosovo, which makes them the most numerous category among asylum-seekers, states the report of EU statistical office Eurostat released on Thursday. With almost 49,000 asylum requests, ethnic Albanians rank above citizens of Syria who have a 16 percent stake in the total number of asylum applications, followed by people from Afghanistan who occupy the third place on the list with 7 percent of all asylum requests. The greatest number of asylum

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Jevtić, Kostić: Collective centers to be closed (KIM Radio)

Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtić and Mayor of Gračanica/Graçanicë Vladeta Kostić yesterday agreed that collective centers should be closed as soon as possible on the territory of Gračanica/Graçanicë Municipality, and other municipalities, too.

 Jevtić and Kostić yesterday signed the agreement on division of rights and obligations beetwen the Ministry and Gračanica/Graçanicë Municipality with regard to housing premises.

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Russian resolution on the court for KLA war crimes (Politika)

Moscow could work on the issue of the court at the UN, however it is possible that such news is published in order to scare Pristina a bit, writes Russian information site ‘Sputnik’. Russia has the right, as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, to propose creation of the court for the Kosovo Liberation Army war crimes, however its effort would be blocked by the US, which treats Kosovo as its zone of interest, writes Serbian desk of the Russian information portal ‘Sputnik’. The portal referred to information that appeared in Pristina-based

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EU blocks Serbian projects (Vesti)

Around EUR 7 million collected from the customs at crossings in northern Kosovo, Brnjak and Jarinje, forwarded to the special fund for development of four northern municipalities, still can’t be used. Kosovo Finance Minister Abdulah Hoti says that EU Office is still reviewing projects that will be realized through the collected funds in northern Kosovo, and that this is the only reason why the money is still not used. The Mayor of Leposavić/Leposaviq Municipality Dragan Jablanović said that projects have been handed over the EU Office in Kosovo, which informed

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Only compromise possible for Kosovo (Tanjug, RTS, Blic, Vecernje Novosti)

Serbia considers Kosovo as an unalienable part of its territory and wishes to continue the search for a solution to the Kosovo issue through peaceful means only, compromise and agreements, Chairman of the Serbian parliament Committee on KiM, Milovan Drecun said in the talks with Chairman of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Alexey Pushkov. Serbia's foundation for the Kosovo's status rests on UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Drecun underscored during the meeting of the Serbian parliament Committee on KiM and the delegation of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee.

Đurić: Lie that Kosovo has got area code through Austria (Blic)

The head of Belgrade team in negotiations with Pristina Marko Đurić said today in Brussels that it is complete untrue that Kosovo has received, with mediation of Austria, the international area code as stated earlier by the head of Kosovo delegation Edita Tahiri. Đurić stressed that Kosovo can receive the area code from the International Telecommunication Union only if Serbia, being the UN member state, requests it, and in a manner that Kosovo receives the area code ‘only as a geographical territory within Serbia’. The head of the Serbian delegation warned tha

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Pushkov: Resolution attack on Serbia’s image and authority (RTS)

The chairperson of Russian Duma’s committee for foreign relations Aleksey Pushkov said that the West, with resolution on Srebrenica, is sending a signal that it can launch mechanisms that could attack the image and authority of Serbia, because of not joining sanctions against Russia. Pushkov also said that it is about the effort that Serbia is put at odds with Muslim nations, and stressed that this document is not necessary since its adoption would cause more damage than benefits, reported Tanjug.

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