The Director of the Fund for Humanitarian Rights in Belgrade, Natasa Kandic, expressed her surprise with the decision of KFOR to allow entrance of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff, Gen. Ljubisa Dikovic, in Kosovo, being that he is accused for committing war crimes in Kosovo.
The Association/Community of Serb municipalities is victory of the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Serbian politics, however it’s a short-term victory, says Kosovo analyst Dukadjin Gorani.
KFOR has lifted restrictions over certain parts of Serbian air space that were in place since 1999. This news has been published today in Belgrade by the Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the joint press conference with the Serbian prime minister. Stoltenberg explained that KFOR, as of today, completely relaxes security zone and abolishes restrictions introduced in 1999 as a concrete result of relations between Nato and Serbia, and added that it means full integration of Serbia into the European air space.
Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, carried out with EU mediation, is bogged down, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said, claiming that the underlying reason is a halt by the Kosovo side of the implementation of key agreements.
Claims that European Union or Germany are allegedly requesting from Serbia to recognize Kosovo are completely unfounded replied German Embassy in Belgrade on question whether it is truth that Germany would withdraw disputed amendment of the Chapter 35. Embassy communicated that Germany advocates for chapters 35 and 32 to be the first ones to be opened, by the end of this year, in Serbia’s accession negotiations with the EU, and that Germany firmly believes that this will be the case. Politika was also told that Germany didn’t set any new conditions.
No matter how absurd it may sound, the so-called Kosovo Constitutional Court did what the Constitutional Court of Serbia was supposed to do, to defend the highest legal act of the state, says Doctor Darko Simovic, Professor of Constitutional law at the Police Academy.
Today’s opinion piece in Gazeta Blic, comes as a rebuttal of the Head of the National Council of the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), Jakup Krasniqi to the statement of the President of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Wolfgang Petritsch. The latter reportedly told Tanjug news agency that the way members of the Serb community feel will be a benchmark of Kosovo's progress.
The decision of the Kosovo Constitutional Court regarding the Community/Association of Serbian Municipalities is not good because it is important that the responsibilities undertaken are respected, says the president of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Wolfgang Petritsch.
The way members of the Serb community feel will also be a benchmark of Kosovo's progress, he told Tanjug.
Kosovo's Constitutional Court has suspended an agreement with Serbia negotiated with the support of the EU. The move marks a significant new deterioration in the relations between the two countries.
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Serbia was granted four-year membership in the UNESCO Executive Board on Wednesday, Serbian Ambassador in UNESCO Darko Tanaskovic said to Tanjug.
A total of 186 countries took part in the voting, of whom 161 voted in favor of Serbia's membership, which can be considered an excellent result after the major divisions at the General Conference over the request for Kosovo's UNESCO membership, Tanaskovic said.