Member of the Presidency of the Serbian National Forum (SNF), Momcilo Trajkovic, said in TV Show 'Slobodno Srpski' (Free Serbian) that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic need to give up his current policy towards Kosovo, and that SNF representatives have told him that personally, in a meeting month ago, reports KIM radio.
Islamic Community of Serbia (ICS) has respect towards Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and relatively good relations with the state authorities, Belgrade Mufti, Mustafa Jusufspahic told Serbian media.
Mufti Jusufspahic added, this religious community would like if its opinion on Kosovo is taken.
“We do not like our country to be torn apart, and it is not just to separate the cradle of this country,” Jusufspahic said, conveying the stance of the Islamic Community of Serbia on this matter.
Serbian member of Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency, Mladen Ivanic is paying a three-day visit to the Serbian Orthodox Church Monasteries in Kosovo and Metohija, Serbian media reported.
Ivanic visited the Pec Patriarchate and Visoki Decani Monastery and spoke with the Abbess Haritina and the Abbott Sava Janjic.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has called on the leadership of Comoros to reconsider the decision to recognize Kosovo, made in 2009.
Dacic, who is visiting the island nation, pointed out that this decision went against the principles for which that country is fighting where their territorial integrity is concerned, and that Serbia and Comoros share ties of friendly relations from the era of the former Yugoslavia and its leader, Josip Broz Tito.
“Srpska Lista must not vote for ratification of the demarcation agreement. No one authorized it to deal with “par excellence” state affairs,” President of the Serb European Movement, Rada Trajkovic told KIM Radio.
She further added that “involvement of Srpska Lista in the project of demarcation would essentially mean legalization of Kosovo, as a holder of a border with Montenegro and the annulment of the state of Serbia on that line”.
Serbian Orthodox Church Bishop of Backa, Irinej said last night that the issue of Kosovo and Metohija cannot be resolved with hasty decisions and “if we without resistance agree to grabbing, it would not be the end of the process, but its continuation,” Radio Television of Vojvodina (RTV) reported.
Bishop Irinej made these remarks in an event “Week of Kosovo and Metohija” organized by Matica srpska (the oldest cultural-scientific institution of Serbia) in Novi Sad.
Aleksandar Vulin says Montenegro's decision to send two members of its military to KFOR in Kosovo is "a political message of support for Kosovo's independence," Tanjug news agency reported.
The Serbian Defense Minister added that Serbia "cannot welcome that."
It is not aimed at enhancing the security of citizens in Kosovo and Metohija, Vulin said when asked to comment on the Montenegrin authorities' decision to send members of their army to the (NATO) mission in Kosovo.
Kosovo MP, Ilir Deda said they have received a message from EU officials that demarcation with Serbia should be completed in four years, KIM Radio reported.
“Demarcation as a term won’t be missed. Within 4-year timeframe we should complete demarcation of border with Serbia,” Deda told Pristina-based TV KTV.
He also added, the EU expects this process to finalize by 2021 “by mutual dialogue or arbitration court,” KIM Radio reported.
Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Communities and Returns, Dalibor Jevtic met in Pristina with the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and EU Enlargement Policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn, Serbian media reported.
During the meeting Jevtic emphasized the need to establish the Association of the Serb Municipalities as soon as possible as a precondition for substantive continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.
The Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) has filed an appeal to the Interpol Executive Committee after the organization removed red notices for KLA commanders.
These persons, former members of the KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army") are wanted by Serbia on charges of war crimes.
"In coordination with other institutions, immediately after learning that several war crimes warrants had been deleted from the Interpol system, we filed an appeal over of this act," MUP sources told Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti.