Serbia's first deputy PM and foreign minister Ivica Dacic says German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel is the one who should accept reality - rather than Serbia, as Gabriel previously suggested, reports Serbian media.
Dacic spoke late on Thursday adding that the reality is that the current German government is on its way out.
A memorial plaque set in memory of the kidnappings of Radio Pristina's journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenic was demolished and removed the sixth time, and around the place was found a large amount of bones, most likely of animal origin, report Serbian media.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a series of threats and verbal attacks by pro-government media against four journalists on social networks in recent days, in the run-up to local elections in Belgrade and two other municipalities, and calls on the authorities to punish those responsible.
See more at:https://rsf.org/en/news/verbal-attacks-journalists-pro-government-serb-media
In a sign of protest, due to denied translation service at the moment when a tribute was paid to The Hague convict, Haradin Balla, in the Kosovo Parliament, members of the Srpska Lista have left the session, RTS reports.
In a press statement, Srpska Lista said its members were the victims of unseen political deception, at the moment when a tribute was paid to a convicted war criminal, RTS further writes.
Deputy Leader of Civic Initiative, Freedom, Democracy, Justice, Ksenija Bozovic told FoNet news agency the party did not receive yet any information related to the investigation of Oliver Ivanovic’s murder.
“I neither know what is going on nor how far the investigation of Oliver’s murder has reached,” Bozovic said, adding that she and the party’s secretary gave statements to the police a few days ago.
EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn says 2025 is "a realistic goal for a new wave of (EU) enlargement.)
Serbia and Montenegro have currently "progressed the farthest" toward that goal - but that does not mean that the two countries will definitely be the first to "cross the finish line," Hahn told Austria's APA agency.
"There is still much to do," he said.
Family, friends, thousands of citizens, representatives of state authorities, army, political and public life, paid the tribute to Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice, and one of the most significant Serb leader from Kosovo, Serbian media reported.
Oliver Ivanovic is buried in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens cemetery in Belgrade today. Politicians did not give speech, media also reported. Karate champion and friend of Oliver Ivanovic, Tanja Petrovic held a speech on behalf of the family and friends.
Citizens were offering condolences on Thursday morning in front of a church in Belgrade for the slain Serb politician from Kosovo Oliver Ivanovic.
Accepting the condolences were members of Ivanovic's family, including his window Milena Popovic-Ivanovic.
Oliver Ivanovic will be buried later in the day in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens in Belgrade's New Cemetery.
Telegraf.rs is reporting today that Milena Popovic-Ivanovic said she and her young child would not be returning to Kosovo.
Today, in northern Mitrovica, thousands of citizens have escorted Oliver Ivanovic on his last trip from Kosovo. The column of people from both sides of the street stretched from the center to the exit from the city, reports Serbian media.
Shops in northern Mitrovica were closed. Both young and old have attended, reports Kontakt plus radio.
Chairperson of the Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun said the investigation of Oliver Ivanovic’s murder should go in two directions, toward Kardi Veseli and Washington, Serbian media widely covered.
Drecun said the current investigation shows it is about a well-planned and unfortunately efficiently carried out brutal murder of Oliver Ivanovic, and according to him professionals were involved.