Serbian President spoke last night for RTS about the meeting with EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and situation in Kosovo and Metohija.
Previously a press statement was issued in which the EU High Representative Mogherini stressed that “what happened yesterday must not happen again.”
After Kosovo controversially deported a Serbian official, Kosovo Serb politicians said they will quit the Kosovo government and unilaterally set up an Association of Serbian Municipalities without Pristina’s involvement.
Goran Rakic, the president of the main Kosovo Serb party, Srpska Lista, said on Tuesday that an Association of Serbian Municipalities will be set up independently from Pristina and that the party will leave the Kosovo government.
A doctor in northern Kosovo says 32 people have been injured, including five seriously, during clashes with Kosovo police during the arrest of a senior Serbian government official.
Milan Ivanovic said Monday the injured have been treated in a local hospital in the divided town of Mitrovica and discharged.
“The time has come that Serbia has to invite Russia to take an active part in the process of resolving the Kosovo issue,” leader of Serbian Peoples’ Party (SNP) and Minister for Innovation and Technology Nenad Popovic told BETA news agency.
The rise in the number of people suffering from different types of cancer in Serbia is to a great extent a consequence of NATO bombardment, participants at the scientific forum “Consequences on NATO bombardment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,” said, Serbian media reported.
However, in order to prove this, an expertise, a legal and financial support to the researchers are needed.
According to diplomatic sources, the West awaits results from today’s Vucic-Thaci meeting in Brussels, under the auspices of the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, Danas daily writes today.
“Although there was no progress during the last round of technical talks regarding ZSO, it is possible that Vucic and Thaci would finally agree to establish a working group that would deal with this matter, however chances for reaching such agreement are rather slim,” Danas continues referring to its sources.
Should a meeting between the presidents of Russia and of the US take place, there is no better place for it than Serbia, says Ivica Dacic.
"This speaks to the international position of Serbia and that's why it should be utilized," the first deputy PM and foreign minister told RTS on Friday.
As a "neutral venue," Belgrade last fall hosted meetings between Russian and US Ukraine crisis envoys, Vladislav Surkov and Kurt Volker.
In his outgoing address as Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor, David Schwendiman said that gathering evidence and locating witnesses to indict former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army had been tough.
In his parting speech, the chief prosecutor at the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers, David Schwendiman, said on Thursday that his office had collected a mass of evidence – but repeated that the court was not set up to "change history" or put one ethnicity on trial.
Change of Kosovo status is a "fait accompli" to the West, there is no room for division either. As a hope it remains that Serbs in Kosovo get what has been agreed in Brussels five years ago, the Association of the Serb Municipalities, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told RTS after meeting the Western countries’ officials.
United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres appreciates cooperation of Serbia with the UN, a press statement reads following the meeting between UN SG Guterres and the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
The statement also said the two officials discussed several topics related to the Western Balkans.
Serbian President Office announced yesterday Vucic conferred with Guterres on the situation in the region and current state of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.