Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said late on Thursday that the claim Pristina has enough votes to join UNESCO was "a big lie."
"In all the meetings the president and I have had here, this subject was also discussed," said Dacic, who is in New York as part of the Serbian delegation, led by Aleksandar Vucic, taking part in the UN General Assembly.
A forensics expert told the retrial of three men originally convicted of involvement in organ-trafficking from the Medicus clinic in Kosovo that two patients had their kidneys removed for no medical reason.
Forensics expert Carmen Barbu told Pristina Basic Court on Thursday that the kidneys of two patients of the Medicus clinic who are testifying as protected witnesses in the trial were removed for no medical reason.
Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Behgjet Pacolli, met in New York Montenegro’s Foreign Minister, Srdjan Darmanovic. In a Facebook post, Pacolli said the two diplomats reconfirmed excellent relations between Kosovo and Montenegro and discussed issues of joint interest. “I will set on an official visit to Podgorica next week,” Pacolli wrote.
Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Behgjet Pacolli, said Kosovo has managed to secure enough votes to gain membership in UNESCO. He said that in meetings with foreign diplomats in the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the Kosovo delegation has secured the necessary votes for UNESCO although he admitted that Kosovo would still need to adopt two pieces of legislation regarding religious equality.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić talked with the new Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Thomas Greminger about Serbia's co-operation with the organization, the ministry said, reports regional TV N1.
State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Eurasian Integration chair Leonid Kalashnikov has called on the US president and the West to "return Kosovo to Serbia."
"Calling for respect of sovereignty sounds cynical coming from the president of a power that has destroyed the entire world order. Let's start with Kosovo. Who dismembered Yugoslavia? Americans went down that that road and opened Pandora's box," Kalashnikov told TASS.
The situation in the Balkans was in focus of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on the sidelines of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
“We hail any opportunity to hear your opinion about the developments in the regions, to coordinate our further steps on matters of concern for us and in the interests of stability in the Balkans and development of the countries of the region in conformity with the will of their peoples,” Lavrov said.
Ahead of the Interpol General Assembly that will start on September 26, the US is "mustering all forces" to make Pristina a new member of the organization.
The Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti reported this, adding that the host of this year's assembly is China, and that in Beijing, Belgrade's arguments on this issue will be defended by a delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic.
The Pristina authorities exhumed the body of an unidentified person in an Albanian village near the border with Kosovo, believed to have been buried there during the war 1999.
Kosovo’s Institute of Forensic Medicine together with the EU rule-of-law mission EULEX, under the supervision of Kosovo’s war crimes prosecutor Drita Hajdari, exhumed an unidentified person’s body in the village of Domaj in Albania on Monday.
An investigation reveals that a discrepancy between the Kosovo Correctional Service and the Ministry of Education is leaving teenagers who attempted to join terrorist organizations out of school.
With little money, two 16-year-old boys, one from Viti and the other from Gjilan, checked into Prishtina International Airport to board a flight to Turkey, hoping to join ISIS ranks in Syria. Fortunately, they were stopped by the border police.