The rhetoric used by Self-determination MP, Albin Kurti on the unification of Kosovo and Albania, although not new has specific significance at this moment not only because of the movement’s ascent, but also of the splice of great powers’ interests, whose trump card he could be, Serbian daily Vecenje Novosti writes today.
EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn welcomed last night opening of the new chapters in Serbia’s EU accession negotiations, and highlighted that Serbia in the future must focus on the rule of law and normalization of relations with Pristina, Serbian media reported.
He assessed the opening of chapters as an indicator of a Serbia’s serious commitment and its realistic and firm European perspective, Serbian media reported further.
The European Union wants to show it still cares about the Balkans, but not everyone is feeling the love.
Brussels has been accused for years of not paying enough attention to the six Western Balkan countries that want to join the bloc. After taking office in 2014, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker declared the EU would not take in any new members during his five-year term.
Good cooperation between the chambers of commerce of Serbia and Kosovo is an exception in the relations between Belgrade and Pristina, says the president of the Kosovo Chamber of Commerce Safet Gerxhaliu, KiM radio reports.
"Trade is like water, it finds its own paths," he says in the "Dogovor!?" TV show of KIM Radio Television.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic spoke with US Secretary of State Rex Tilerson on Thursday in Vienna.
According to a Serbian MFA statement carried by Beta, Dacic told Tillerson that representatives of the old US establishment who defend their policy from the 1990s cannot be the ones to bring changes to the US foreign policy.
Albin Kurti, MP of Self-Determination, talks to Deutsche Welle and says that Kosovo should have the right to vote on a referendum on unification with Albania, and why he rejects the Brussels dialogue and the Community of Serb municipalities.
Centre of Foreign Policy Director, Aleksandra Joksimovic said to RTK 2 that the format of the Brussels dialogue would not change, but the USA will be more active in the process of normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina.
Joksimovic also said she does not believe legally binding document would request from Serbia to recognize Kosovo, but would seek that both Belgrade and Pristina unimpeded move towards the European integration.
Serbia is grateful to South Africa for its firm position to respect international law and territorial integrity of Serbia when it comes to Kosovo, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister, Ivica Dacic said during his meeting with South African Minister of Defense and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, B92 reports.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says there is "no chance Kosovo will get a chair in the United Nations, except an agreement with Serbia."
He said that Kosovo cannot get a place in the UN "under such conditions of political polarization and the existence of a multi-polar world."
Vucic also pointed out that "Serbia must have something" out of that agreement - instead of "have nothing and be humiliated."
Vuk Jeremic says that he still believes that a decision made in 2010 to change Serbia's draft UN General Assembly resolution on Kosovo was "completely wrong."
"I was informed from Belgrade that it was decided to change the resolution the evening before the vote, where I had secured a majority for our original text. I was in shock and trying to contact Belgrade," Jeremic, at the time Serbia's foreign minister, who now heads the People's Party, told the Fakti website.