Milorad Dodik says Republika Srpska will demand a UN seat if Kosovo gets one – adding that Kosovo’s partition should also be up for discussion.
If Kosovo becomes a member of the United Nations and other international institutions, Bosnia’s mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, RS, will demand the same, Milorad Dodika, the RS President, told Friday’s Vecernje Novosti, a Serbian daily.
President Aleksandar Vucic and Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej would meet tomorrow in the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade, SRNA news agency reported, quoting President’s press service.
The meeting is scheduled to take place tomorrow at 11.00 and press statement would be issued following the meeting, Serbian media added.
The Serbian Government has broadened the tasks of a commission set up to evaluate facts discovered during investigations into murders of journalists.
This decision has been made in order to secure, through coordination of services of the Republic of Serbia and cooperation with journalists and similar institutions from the region, that the fight against the impunity for murders of journalists is continued, the government announced on Thursday.
Albanian Minister Pandeli Majko saying that "the border between Albania and Kosovo" will be opened starting on January 1 "lacks seriousness and responsibility."
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric reacted in this way on Thursday, adding that the statement of the Albanian minister in charge of the diaspora only served to further aggravate relations in the region.
Members of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (SANU), professors and journalists sent a protest statement “over attacks against the Serbian Orthodox Church and Raska-Prizren Eparchy,” Serbian media reported.
Professor at Faculty of Political Sciences and former Serbian Minister for Kosovo and Metohija, Slobodan Samardzic said that talks on Kosovo division “represent a smokescreen concealing the truth that state leadership of Serbia would sign an act of recognition of Kosovo,” Danas daily reported.
Srpska Lista said late last night it condemns “senseless and dangerous lies” that some sort “of extraordinary working obligation” was imposed to the institutions of the Republic of Serbia in Kosovo, Danas daily reported.
Srpska Lista said that spreading of such news comes as a part of “crazed campaign” that is, as they say, run for days against Serbia, President Vucic and Srpska Lista, mainly though social networks and portals financed by several embassies, active in Pristina without accreditation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade.
Belgrade-based daily Danas on its front-page reports today on polemics that surfaced following warning of Abbot Sava Janjic on possible staged incidents in the north of Kosovo. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in an interview to TV Pink called warnings “idle talks” adding that nothing has happened, and nothing would happen.
„I don’t want anyone to die either in the North or in the South. I devoted all of my time, a tremendous amount of time, and a tremendous amount of energy to it.“
„You invited me to respond to rude and impudent gossip“ – this is how Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, commented for TV Pink TV information about the „recent scenario of a mutually staged incident in the north of Kosovo to provoke partition in the field.“
“It is easy to be in the opposition today, from comfortable armchairs, with pockets that were made full by the acts made during the previous regime, and speak against their state, President Vucic and Srpska Lista. It’s easy, but not moral to do so,” SL said in a press statement, TV Most reported.