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Embassy of the United States regrets the incident; Davenport: There's no point to comment on fabrications in the media (Blic)

US Embassy in Serbia today expressed regret over the violence, fanaticism and hooliganism at last night's football match Serbia-Albania in Belgrade. "It is regrettable that another sport event has turned into a place for the expression of nationalism and violence.

FM: Stadium incident was planned political provocation (Blic, B92)

Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić has said that an incident during the Serbia-Albania football match was a deliberate and planned political provocation. Dačić believes that Serbia bears no responsibility for the fact the European championship qualifier game was interrupted and could not be resumed late on Tuesday. "This has never happened on any football game and was prepared in advance.

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Defense is ready and we expect trial to begin soon (Tanjug, TV Most, Blic)

BELGRADE - Deputy leader of the Citizens’ Initiative SDP Ksenija Bozovic said Thursday that she expected the trial against the party leader Oliver Ivanovic to begin before the end of 2015, pointing out that his defense was fully prepared for the trial. Bozovic told Tanjug that the defense had presented all evidence Oliver Ivanovic had and the names of his witnesses to the court within the statutory deadline, adding that she expected the trial to begin before year’s end. The entire team of lawyers who will defend Ivanovic and Ivanovic himself, who has been in detention for a long time now, ar

Analysts: Solution is Jahajga’s resignation (Blic)

Political analysts in Pristina reiterated that without political will, there is no way out from the institutional crisis in Kosovo and Metohija, and according to some of them, key for the solution is president of Kosovo. Analyst Shpend Kursani points out that the adequate address for the solution of the crisis over the formation of institutions is Atifete Jahjaga. Kursani said that Jahjaga could solve the crisis, if she wants it. She should resign, and Kosovo assembly would elect Isa Mustafa as president of Kosovo.

Mass grave of Kosovo Serbs in Djakovica/Gjakove? (B92, Blic)

The Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of Serbia and EULEX will verify information on the existence of a mass grave of Serbian victims in the village Piskota in Gjakove/Gjakovica municipality, the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor in Belgrade announced today. According to the press release, it is suspected that the grave contains the bodies of people killed during the armed conflict in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999. The Serbian prosecution has information that the location could possibly contain the remains of victims of KLA crimes in the "Likovci" prison camp. EULEX Prosecution has ordered th

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Marko Djuric today in Zubin Potok (Blic)

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric today will visit kindergarten in Zubin Potok, which was built by the Office for Kosovo and Metohija. The newly constructed kindergarten is located next to the old one and will be able to accommodate 60 children; it was announced by the Office for Kosovo and Metohija. Djuric will also visit the water system in the construction in Gazivode near Zubin Potok, which will supply the municipalities of Zubin Potok, Zvecan and Mitrovica with drinking water. The Water system, which construction is funded by the Office for KiM, should solve

Reichel: Full normalization is not possible without the status of Kosovo (Blic)

German Special Envoy for the South-Easternt Europe Ernst Reichel said yesterday, at the Belgrade Security Forum, that full reconciliation between Belgrade and Pristina is not possible without settling the status of Kosovo, whereas the Head of the EU Office in Kosovo Samuel Zbogar said that there is no agreement in the EU over the status of Kosovo. In the same time representatives of Belgrade and Pristina talked about the need for normalization of relations as a precondition for better life of Serbs and Albanians. At the Forum’s panel dubbed “Serbs and Albanian

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Vulin: There were embezzlements of Kosovo funds (Blic)

Serbia will prevent the embezzlement of the state’s funds in Kosovo, said Serbian Minister for Labor and Social Welfare Aleksandar Vulin. “Police had carried out investigation and at the time when I was the director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija. We’ve handed over documents they requested from us and I did not interfere in that case…Embezzlement took place in Kosovo for sure, however that doesn’t’ mean that we should cancel the assistance to Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija. No way.

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