Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Marko Djuric, as a guest of talk show broadcasted on Radio-Television Vojvodina, said that the former head of the negotiating team for talks with Pristina Borko Stefanovic, in 2011 signed an agreement from which originate the problems we have these days with identity cards.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said today that everything what was agreed in the Brussels must be implemented. At the press conference with Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic, Steinmeier said: "What has been agreed in Brussels should be implemented and I haven’t heard any statement claiming opposite.
Oliver Ivanovic will present today in the Municipal Court in northern Mitrovica a defence before the EULEX three-member panel of judges.
Ivanovic is in custody and charged with serious crimes committed against Albanians in 1999 and 2000 in southern and northern Mitrovica.
Nebojsa Vlajić, defense lawyer of Oliver Ivanovic said that for today is scheduled conclusion of presentation of the evidence, in the trial against Ivanovic and four other Serbs accused of war crimes against civilians during 1999 and 2000.
Air Traffic Control of Serbia and Montenegro will take all legal steps to regain full control of airspace over Kosovo, because it meets all the technical, organizational, personnel requirements, said director of flight control of Serbia and Montenegro (SMATSA), Radojica Rovčanin. This sensitive issue is discussed with KFOR, who since 1999 controls the airspace, said Rovčanin adding that it would be natural that the job will be returned to SMATSA.
During talk show "Upitnik" which was broadcasted on RTS, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stated that Chapters 32 and 35 will be opened on 14 December. “This is result of the citizens’ efforts, for which I congratulate them," Vucic said.
According to estimates of security experts, in the last fifteen years in the Balkans was created a good network of cells of radical Islamist groups, willing to go into battle against the western civilization. Most of them are located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Kosovo, writes Zagreb daily Jutarnji List. Citing unnamed interlocutors close to the security services, the paper writes that "Muslims in Kosovo and Albania" are far more radical than those in B&H.
Chairman of the Executive Board of the Forum for Ethnic Relations Dusan Janjic, said that "apart to nervousness that spreads the Balkans", the process of normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina will not stop but will take place in turbulent conditions.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the KFOR mission will remain in Kosovo. At a press conference with Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, Stoltenberg stated that NATO presence in Kosovo is the longest military operation of this organization, pointing out its commitment on ensuring the safety and security of the whole region. "We're staying in Kosovo," said Stoltenberg, adding that everything related to future depends on certain conditions.
The house of family Lazic in Klina/Kline was stoned on Wednesday night. Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo Government Dalibor Jevtic assessed the situation as alarming and that urgent steps have to be taken in order to protect the returnees and their property in this and other parts of Kosovo.