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Serbian president attends reception hosted by US president (Tanjug)

NEW YORK - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has attended a reception US President Barack Obama hosted for the world leaders gathered for a meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The reception was held on Tuesday and Nikolic thanked his US counterpart for the invitation and said that Serbia supported in full the US efforts against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Obama thanked Nikolic, commended him on good work and expressed hope that he would continue in that fashion, the Serbian delegation told Tanjug.

Fuele: First two chapters may open by end of year (Tanjug, RTS, IRS)

NEW YORK - EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele believes that there is a chance for Brussels and Belgrade to cross an important threshold before the year ends and to open the first two of 35 policy chapters which Serbia must address to join the EU.

“I think we still believe that would be possible before the end of this year,” Fuele said in an interview for Wall Street Journal.

Nevertheless, he warned that progress depends on the member states as well as Belgrade, since EU capitals must okay the move.

Extinction of the international law – announcement of a new war (Politika)

The US has launched a new era in international relations – the era where force of law is replaced with the law of force.
International law is dead. It was brutally disrupted, even though it was not publicly announced yet by anyone. There are no more internationally agreed principles, rules and regulations which are valid for all. Due to that fact we are witnessing the mankind going deeper and deeper into a crater of anarchy and chaos.

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"Poor results of the Brussels talks" (KiM radio)

The results of dialogue in Brussels did not contribute to establishing trust between Serbs and Albanians, it was agreed at the debate, "Reconstruction of the Future" held in Belgrade.

The debate indicated that the representatives of the political elite in Belgrade and Pristina lack sincerity, and that praises about the achievements of the dialogue in Brussels are unfounded.

A page posted on Facebook dubbed “Army of the Republic of Sandzak’ (Srna)

A page of the so called Army of the Republic of Sandzak has appeared on Facebook, with the photos of the recent ‘Expedition to Hadzet’ which took place in Novi Pazar, and with the message ‘Pazar – Sandzak, never Serbia’.

The front page features the message ‘We want Sandzak to be the Republic’ and calls on ‘Sandzak tigers’ to join the movement.

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Freedom of movement cost up to 10,000 euros (KiM radio)

Insurance for vehicles in Kosovo and Serbia is too expensive and detrimental for the citizens and drivers, it was said today at a conference in Caglavica.

Despite the announced reduction of insurance by the Kosovo police, drivers traveling from the direction of Kosovo and central Serbia still pay high insurance for their vehicles.

Negotiator Borko Stefanovic, who at that time represented the Belgrade team and Edita Tahiri a representative of Pristina, said that this agreement will bring relief to the citizens.

Belgrade Prosecutes Serbian Fighters for Deadly Kosovo Attack (Balkan Insight)

Three former Serbian fighters, including special police commander Vladan Krstovic, are accused of war crimes during an attack on the Kosovo village of Ljubenic that left 46 ethnic Albanians dead.

The case against Vladan Krstovic, Lazar Pavlovic and Milan Ivanovic for the attack on Ljubenic during the Kosovo war on April 1, 1999, during which 46 people were killed and 11 wounded, began on Monday at a closed pre-trial hearing at the Belgrade-based special court.