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Bytyqi murder case remains unresolved (B92)

The unresolved murder of the Bytyqi brothers is an obstacle in relations between Serbia and the U.S. They were U.S. citizens whose bodies were found in a mass grave in Petrovo Selo. So far, no government has managed to identify and punish the perpetrators of the murder of the Bytyqi brothers, and the current government announces the solving of this problem. Speaking for TV B92 Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said that one of the foreign policy priorities is better relations with the United States.

Association seeks release of Serbs kidnapped in 1998 and later in Kosovo (Tanjug/Blic)

Association of families of kidnapped and murdered civilians, soldiers and police officers in Kosovo and Metohija today requested from the Serbian Foreign Minister and the OSCE Chairperson in Office Ivica Dačić to appeal on the European Union, United States and United Nations for release of Serbs kidnapped in Kosovo and Metohijia in 1998 and later. Association communicated that they presented a video tapes to the Hague Tribunal and Serbian prosecution about kidnapped Serbs from camps Likovac, Lapusnik and Malisevo. The Association also asked why Serbia didn’t request from the war crimes prose

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The Special Dilemma (Zeri)

Lavdim Hamidi writes today that the dilemma on the Special Court should definitely resolve by Friday. “If there is no third solution and if only two options are on the table, then there is no doubt that this dilemma should resolve with establishment of the court by the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo, in order to prevent the United Nations Security Council to do so,” writes Hamidi.

Serbian PM cool on President's Kosovo 'Platform' (Balkan Insight)

Serbia's Prime Minister has given a cool response to leaks of the President's platform on Kosovo, which has not been revealed in entirety but, according to the daily newspaper Politika, TV B92 and some other media, offers Kosovo only the status of a province within Serbia.

The offer is clearly unacceptable to Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008, as well as to the many Western countries, including the US, which recognised it as an inde

An agreement will be reached about a platform for Kosovo (TV Pink, Blic, TV Most)

Advisor to the President of the Serbia, Stanislava Pak said today that agreement will be reached on a platform of the Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Kosovo, and that the limit below which the president is not going to go is the recognition of Kosovo. Pak said that and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has positively assessed the platform and he has confidence in Nikolic, who has written a platform primarily because at some point agreement on normalization expects Serbia and "Serbia strategically is planning the approach to the event which awaits us". "We want to achieve what is a minimu

Jovanovic: Nikolic jeopardizing Serbia’s future with his statements (Beta)

The President of the non-parliamentary Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Cedomir Jovanovic assessed today that President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic is jeopardizing the future of the country with his statements about Serbia’s undetermined position and with platform on Kosovo, which according to him, is not based on reality. “The latest statement of Tomislav Nikolic about Serbia’s undetermined position is only adding to fallacy from the past due to which we went from defeat to defeat.

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If Nikolic is serious , no Serbia in the EU (Blic)

If a platform of the Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic becomes a document over which Belgrade would like to negotiate with Pristina and the EU, Serbia would find itself in a serious trouble. This was said unofficially to Blic by sources from the European Commission in Brussels, who also stressed that EC did not receive Nikolic’s platform, thus they can only comment it based on media reports. They explained that the process of European integration of Serbia could be jeopardized if Belgrade would request to negotiate over the status of Kosovo, treating it as th

Vučić: Platform is a serious text, we’ll see if implementation is possible (Tanjug)

The Prime Minister of Serbia Vučić today stated that Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic’s platform on Kosovo and Metohija is a serious text which will be discussed at the state level, and that it will be published after an analyzes over its realistic dimension, and said that he won’t quarrel over it with the President.

Northern Kosovo soon without medicines (Vesti)

As of June 1, northern Kosovo could be left without medicines, following a decision of the Kosovo Ministry of Health and Customs that sale of medicines and other medicaments produced in Serbia won’t be allowed in pharmacies in northern Kosovo as of that date. Owners of pharmacies are due to have Kosovo licenses, what is actually impossible, since Kosovo is not recognizing university diplomas from Serbia. In the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija say that Serbian side has fulfilled all that was required.

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