Dusan Kozarev, Deputy Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, and Vladimir Cucic, Commissioner for Refugees and Migration, conferred with Chief of the UNHCR Mission in Kosovo Narasimha Rao on Monday, reads a statement issued by the Office for KiM.
Although Ivica Dacic recently announced that Greek PM Alexis Tsipras will visit Serbia in the fall, two Belgrade based newspapers say this will not happen
Thus the daily Blic writes that the package of conditions that Greece must fulfill to receive financial assistance from the West includes recognizing Kosovo.
Greece is one of five EU countries that do not recognize the unilateral declaration of independence made by ethnic Albanians in 2008.
The package of conditions that Greece must meet in order to receive financial assistance of the West, is the recognition of Kosovo, Blic learns from diplomatic sources.
More frequent media headlines in Greece and the announcements of Greek analysts that “Kosovo is Serbia's lost battle” have their background. Greece will need to play by the game rules of the West due to the vulnerable financial situations.
Head of Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric asked the UNMIK Chief Farid Zarif and EULEX Chief Gabriel Meucci to engage on Ivanovic's case.
Djuric in an official letter addressed to EULEX and UNMIK requested to enable bail for the leader of the Citizens' Initiative SDP, Oliver Ivanovic and Dragoljub Delibasic. Also, Djuric states that it would prevent human right violations and damage of Ivanovic's health.
Deputy Chairperson of the Civic Initiative SDP, Ksenija Bozovic, stated today that Oliver Ivanović’s health is worsening after he went on hunger strike five days ago.
She said that SDP has no additional information about his health status, and that Ivanović’s friends and family are disappointed with the behavior of the court and EULEX officials who simply went silent and ignorant.
The prime ministers of Albania and Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic and Edi Rama, will be guests in sixty minutes show of the regional TV production "Okruzenje," which is broadcasted in five countries on 11 national and dozens of local television stations, as announced by this production, the RTS will broadcast the show on August 31.
According to the press release, the show will be recorded in a studio in Vienna, during the second conference on the Western Balkans, reports FoNet. The third guest will be Goran Svilanovic, the Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council.
The EULEX Court decision to extend detention of Oliver Ivanovic until 6 October, Milena Ivanovic (Oliver's wife) has described as "horrible and scandalous".
- This is another proof that everything is set up, it is a political process. They probably have condemned him in advance - says for Blic, Milena Popovic Ivanovic.
Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic says for Blic that the length of detention and the course of the procedure against Ivanovic creates concern and doubts as to respect a series of individual rights from the complex right to trial within a reasonable time.
Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic says he is satisfied that amendments that will pave the way to establish a special court have been adopted.
"Of course we're satisfied, it was uncertain until the very end. Until the last moment we did not know whether we will have enough votes," he said.
Stojanovic told B92 late on Monday that he "hoped the law will also be adopted during the session this evening," and that "the decision (on the amendments) was significantly influenced by the international community."
The Kosovo assembly has not accepted a proposal to consider a draft resolution on alleged genocide by Yugoslav army and police forces against ethnic Albanians.
45 deputies on Monday voted in favour of including the draft in the agenda, 55 were against, while five abstained.
The initiative to adopt such a resolution came from the Self-Determination Movement, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, and the Initiative for the Future of Kosovo.
They believe that members of Serb security forces committed genocide against Albanians in the province during the last war.
The Association of Families of Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo and Metohija announced that it is disappointed with decisions of some states of the UNESCO Executive Board, which supported Kosovo's application for membership in that organization of the United Nations.