The Washington John Hopkins University’s panel “Western Balkans (WB): Managing the Challenges” dealt with the regional leaders’ real readiness to get closer to the West, adding it should more clearly criticise the WB’s regimes, the Voice of America (VOA) reported on Thursday, as carried by the FoNet news agency.
Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s President, said in Berlin on Tuesday Kosovo could not consolidate itself as a state without Serbia, the Belgrade-based news agency reported.
He said Serbia had been internationally recognised country and a UN member state, so it did not need Kosovo’s recognition.
The Commander of the US Bondsteel base in Kosovo Colonel Roy Macaraeg denied on Wednesday rumors that 500 Albanian soldiers would be positioned in the KFOR Nothing Hill camp in the north and said that 70-strong international force would remain there, the FoNet news agency reported.
The Colonel said that some 800 US, Polish, Turkish and Albanian soldiers were stationed in Bondsteel.
We remember March 24 as the day when diplomacy failed and we sincerely regret the civilian casualties during the 1999 events, said the Joint Statement of Condolence of representatives of embassies of Canada, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States of America State.
“We share the pain with all those who lost their loved ones in the wars from the 90s,” the embassies wrote on 20th anniversary of the NATO bombing of former Yugoslavia.
Director of the Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency Shaip Havolli
announced that a much wider circle of people will have to report their assets
as of next year, including inspectors, public procurement officers, professors,
doctors, customs officials and officials of the Tax Administration of Kosovo,
reported Belgrade based daily Danas, quoting RTK2.
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic told the European Council on Foreign Relations on Monday his country was a democratic state and that he was satisfied when people could protest peacefully, but that country could not allow violence, the FoNet news agency reported.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will respond to Pristina’s negotiation platform in a rational manner, the president’s general secretary Nikola Selakovic told the Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).
General Secretary Nikola Selakovic said that Vucic’s response would be “rational, serious, responsible and firm”.
He added that the president had been warning about the platform for five months adding that it is clear now that the entire Belgrade-Pristina dialogue process is being stopped.
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.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the President of the European Commission (EC), said in Brussels on Wednesday that there was a high risk of the restoration of the 1990s if the Western Balkans countries did not have a perspective of joining the European Union, the FoNet news agency reported.
Speaking after talks with the Slovenian President Borut Pahor, Juncker said the Western Balkans’ chances of joining the bloc had to be real, adding he believed “it was the question of war or peace.”
Demarcation will be Serbia’s official proposal to resolve the Kosovo issue, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday.
Dacic said that the exact demarcation line has not been defined yet even though the demarcation idea is in play.