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Vucic: A report on organ trafficking is of great importance for Serbia (Politika)

Belgrade - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in Belgrade that the publication of the report of the Chief Prosecutor Clint Williamson, investigating human organs trafficking, will be of paramount importance to Serbia. As announced by the Government of Serbia, Prime Minister Vucic said at a meeting with Williamson that the publication of report will confirm objectivity of the EU institutions and international community in the investigation of crimes committed during the war in Kosovo in 1999, and in the former Yugoslavia. Clint Williamson thanked the Serbian judicial authoritie

Djuric and Tahiri to discuss Kosovska Mitrovica in Brussels (Tanjug)

BELGRADE, BRUSSELS - Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric will meet with representatives of the interim authorities from Pristina in Brussels Tuesday, and the main topic of the talks will be the situation in the northern KiM city of Kosovska Mitrovica. Djuric told Belgrade-based TV Pink on Monday that he expected to hear new ideas for the resolution of issues related to the bridge connecting the southern (Albanian) and the northern (Serb) part of the city. Djuric and Kosovo's Deputy Prime Minister Edita Tahiri already met in Brussels on July 11 t

Dacic: Dialogue with Pristina priority (Politika)

Vienna – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dacic during a special session of the OSCE Permanent Council, held yesterday in Vienna, presented priorities of the forthcoming Serbian 2015th OSCE presidency. He assessed that the Ukraine crisis opened up certain key issues of the European security, and that it is necessary to make all efforts to solve it and therefore strengthen relations throughout the entire area of OSCE. Dacic said that presence of international forces in Ukraine at this moment is of paramount importance, and added that Serbia offers its full support to the w

Dacic: EULEX guarantor of Serbs' survival in Kosovo-Metohija (Politika,Blic,Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbia's first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, said on Monday in a meeting with Head of EULEX Mission in Kosovo-Metohija Bernd Borchardt that the presence of that and other international actors in Kosovo, such as UNMIK and KFOR, is a guarantor of Serbs' survival in Kosovo-Metohija. Dacic told Borchardt that Serbia expects EULEX to continue conducting its activities in the same scope of jurisdiction in the next two years, reads a release issued by the ministry of foreign affairs. During the talks, the officials considered Serbia's cooperation with EULEX so

Not a single euro came to the north of Kosovo from the EU (Politika)

Out of the 38.5 million euros of the promised aid from Brussels, the first money for projects in northern Kosovo could arrive in November. Out of the promised EU aid of 38.5 million euros, Serbian municipalities have not received a cent. Will any of this arrive in November, a new date mentioned after the use of "fast" measures, seems depend on whether or not they will accept the political conditionality from Brussels. And the U.S.

Serbs south of the Ibar/Ibër River to go to the polls, but not from the north (Politika)

Mitrovica - Serbs south of the Ibar/Ibër River will go to the polls in early parliamentary elections on June 8th, while their compatriots from the north, because of the conditions imposed by Pristina, will not, unofficially learns Politika. Representatives of the Serbian list from northern Kosovo say that they cannot go to the polls under the conditions which require threshold of 70 000 for the 11th mandate, where the ballots are with the insignia of the state of Kosovo, and where procedure on election boards is violated.

We cannot prevent Kosovo's membership in the Venice Commission (Politika)

Dacic said that, there are various pressures he faces on a daily basis, and some of them are related to the fact that some of the colleagues that he meets do not inform him openly about their next steps in the areas that are the subject of mutual talks, Beta reported. "Almost every two weeks we meet with colleagues, including and colleague with an asterisk, with a footnote (Kosovo), and we inform each other about all. The only thing they have not informed me about is that they will apply for membership in the Venice Commission," Dacic said.