Gallucci: I have never heard of someone accusing Ivanovic (Politika)
Oliver Ivanovic was yesterday handed a new decision on remand in custody for another two months.
Udovicic: I believe that IOC will review its decision on Kosovo (Politika)
Serbian Minister for Sport and Youth Vanja Udovicic yesterday voiced hope that International Olympic Committee (IOC) will review once more its decision to grant a provisional membership in the IOC to Kosovo and open the path for the unilaterally declared state to participate at Olympic Games in Rio 2016. He particularly stressed that granting membership to a so called state, which is not a member state of the United Nations, which is one of the essential conditions for IOC membership, would present huge and dangerous precedent which was not seen so far at the i
Albanian PM wants Serbia "to recognize Kosovo" (B92,Politika,Akter,Blic)
TIRANA -- "The sooner Serbia formally recognizes that Kosovo will never again be its part, the better for Serbia and the region," says Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.
OSCE condemns hacker attacks on media websites (B92, Politika)
VIENNA -- OSCE Media Freedom Representative Dunja Mijatović has called on authorities in Albania, Bosnia and Serbia to investigate all hacker attacks on media websites.
EU expects full implementation of Brussels agreement (Tanjug, Politika, RTS)
BELGRADE - Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport said on Wednesday the EU expected full implementation of the Brussels agreement in the next year and a new momentum to the political talks between Belgrade and Pristina to come as soon as possible in order to achieve further progress in the normalisation of their relations.
Significant effort has been invested to achieve the goal defined by the European Council as comperhensive normalisation, he told a news conference after the European Commission had presented its report on Serbia's progress.
There are expectations that the ag
EULEX on the ground to verify statements about the grave in the Village Piskota (Politika)
EULEX experts and staff of the Department of Forensic Medicine in Kosovo yesterday went to the field in the village Piskota, near Djakovica, to verify the information on suspicion of existence of a mass grave of Serbian civilians at the site, received from the War Crimes Prosecution of Serbia.
EULEX Spokeswoman, Dragana Nikolic Solomon, in an interview with Radio Free Europe (RFE) was unable to give a comment as the investigation is on-going.
Arsim Gerxhaliu, from the Department of Forensic Medicine in Kosovo, confirmed the information, whose staff together with experts from EULEX is a
Djuric: Our people and state in Kosovo have a future (Politika)
BELGRADE - Our people and our state have a future in Kosovo, if we want the future to be sustainable, we must be united, said the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric.
"If we want the future to be sustainable, certain and strong we must all be united," said Djuric from Mitrovica, which hosts the event "Bozur Fest" organized by the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.
He said we should all often go to Kosovo, to convince ourselves of the natural beauty, historical and cultural heritage to which we can be proud of.
"The situation is difficult, there is no doubt about it, but
Sonmez connects the "Yellow house" and "Medicus" (Politika)
Dr. Yusuf Sonmez, the first accused in the case of organ trafficking in the case of Pristina clinic "Medicus", was at the airport in Tirana in 1999, where he participated in the transport of human organs from Albania to Western Europe.
"Agreements with Priština are not interstate" (RTS,Blic,Politika,B92)
BELGRADE -- The government's office for media relations has announced that Serbia would not sign any interstate agreement with Priština.
Rakic and Bozovic: Some in prison for years without indictment (Politika)
Mitrovica – Leaders of the Mitrovica municipality, Ksenija Bozovic and Goran Rakic visited today Detention Unit in Mitrovica and talked with prisoners and, as stated, some of whom are in detention for years without indictment.
As stated, the purpose was to visit Serbian prisoners in Detention Unit, as well as detained Serbs accused before the EULEX justice including the CI SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic.
Bozovic and Rakic wanted to get acquainted with the conditions in which are Serbian prisoners.
"The tour included all the rooms, from cells to the workrooms, an interview was conducted with a