Mayor of Leposavic Zoran Todic told Kosovo Online news portal that allegations made by Kosovo media that he participated in a fight and that he was allegedly beaten are pure fabrication, reports Belgrade based daily Danas.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is very significant - both for relations between our two countries and the Kosovo issue, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic tells Belgrade based daily Danas, commenting on the meeting between Vucic and Pompeo, happening in New York today, at the margins of the United Nations Security Council session on the Middle East.
It is still uncertain whether the Pristina parliament will be dissolved on August 22, which would allow early elections to be called, claim Danas's interlocutors from Kosovo.
Some sources of daily Danas unofficially state that it should be seen whether two-thirds of MPs will vote to dissolve the parliament, and that Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci still can avoid going to the polls.
It is true that representatives of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were involved in the investigation into the murder of the three Bytyqi brothers, as well as in a questioning of a witness in one northern country, but nothing came out of it, a former prosecutor, Vladimir Vukcevic told Belgrade based daily Danas.
On Sunday, Bishop of Raska-Prizren Teodosije refuted the claims published by some Belgrade-based media that the late Patriarch Pavle was in favour of the division of Kosovo, reported Serbian media.
Bishop Teodosije opined that “the idea of a territorial-ethnic division of Serbia in KiM, which is nothing but an invitation for the betrayal of Kosovo, people and the state, all of us are being brought into a state of further confusion and hopelessness”.
The text ''Serbian Spirit of Resistance'', published by the French magazine ''Le Figaro'', had recently caught the public’s eye.
I must admit that I barely managed to read all ten pages on the life of the Serbian people in Kosovo and hold back the tears, as well as powerlessness and anger towards those who led them to such a position, who did nothing for years to help change anything in their favor – quite the opposite.
Belgrade based daily Danas reports that US diplomat Matthew Palmer called the Serbian opposition to participate in the next parliamentary elections, quoting unnamed diplomatic sources.
Danas reports that Palmer told the opposition leaders that Washington does not agree with a possible boycott of elections because that would violate democratic principles.
The Belgrade based Danas daily awarded two journalists for being professional in “all but easy time for media,” the newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The editor of the KoSSev website from North Kosovo’s Mitrovica town Tatjana Lazarevic and an editor of the BIRN website and a journalist with the Vreme weekly Slobodan Georgijev will receive “Stanislav Stasa Marinkovic” award on June 9, upon the occasion of the Danas’ anniversary.
KFOR Spokesperson Vincenzo Grasso told Belgrade based daily Danas that there is a lot of discussion about whether an information is given but one can check that during the interview for TV Prva, he said that "everyone was informed", which meant that the information was previously disclosed.
He added that KFOR cannot provide the information on behalf of other and specifies that there was no reason to react to the police action, conducted in order to reduce the crime rate, which is beneficial to everyone.
According to Belgrade based daily Danas, Serbia is expected to have "very negative assessment" of the state of democracy.
Some diplomats told Danas that "very negative reviews" will be found in the segment relating to the "state of democracy," referring to the European Commission's Progress Report on Serbia's progress towards EU membership, to be presented at today's extraordinary meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee European Parliament in Brussels.