Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said today that Turkey's position on Kosovo is in line with its interests, which are different from Serbian ones, but that a major step forward is that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will accept any solution that Belgrade and Pristina reach.
The 16th anniversary of the crime against Serbian children in Gorazdevac was marked in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and with a visit to the graves of the murdered boys. Due to the disagreement between the parents of the murdered young men Ivan Jovovic and Pantelija Dakic, no memorial plaque was erected at Bistrica.
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”.
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj dismissed Vesna Mikic yesterday from the post of the Deputy Minister of Justice, whereby he stated that there is "no room for individuals, regardless of their ethnicity in the Kosovo government and Kosovo institutions that can undermine a common Euro-Atlantic values," reports KIM radio.
Mikic responded, regarding her dismissal, that democracy in Kosovo was just an illusion.
More than 15 hectares of orchards and forest were burned in
the vicinity of the village of Berivojce, near Kamenica on Monday evening, RTV
Puls reported. The fire broke out on Sunday afternoon, causing the most damage
to the property of Zoran Simic from Berivojce. More than 400 plum and cherry
trees belonging to Simic were destroyed. It is estimated that direct damage,
counting only the loss of the destroyed fruit, amounts to €10,000, while the
costs of rebuilding fruit production will be several times higher.
Unknown perpetrators stole a cow and a calf from the Savic family from the Izvor village in the municipality of Novo Brdo on the night between Saturday and Sunday.
The damage is estimated at approximately 2.000 EUR. Two cows were taken from the same family five years ago. The perpetrators have still not been found.
Vice president of the Serbian List Igor Simic told TV Pink yesterday that Pristina was trying to break the resistance of Serbs in Kosovo by mounting new false charges, Serbian media quoted.
He said that it was mentioned that those were people from political life, that is, everyone marked by Pristina as someone who can lead the Serbian people.
The Kosovo police arrested two Albanians suspected of stoning a Serb family home in the town of Vitina, RTV Puls reported.
The two suspects were arrested for what the police said was a ''harassment '' of the Savic family which lives in the centre of the town, police regional spokesman in Gnjilane Ismet Hashani said.
The Savic family home was stoned a week earlier at 01:20 am. The police said that was the sixth reported attack on the family this year.
One of the former KLA commanders, Rustem Mustafa-Remi should be one of the first to be questioned before the Special Prosecutor's Office.
Former Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic told Belgrade based TV Prva that he is satisfied that the prosecution started working, and that it was founded because it is about the most monstrous crimes committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
Displaced Serbs from Djakovica and for the forthcoming Christmas will not be able to visit their city because the "Self-Determination" movement announced a protest for January 6th, says the president of the Association of Displaced Persons from Djakovica, Djokica Stanojevic, for today's edition of Belgrade based daily Politika.