Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said North Macedonia recognized unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo in order to get closer to the West, adding the argumentation of newly elected Macedonian President Stevo Pendarovski who said it was done because of Albanians living in the country “does not stand.”
Srpska Lista member, Slavko Simic told RTS that the draft resolution proposal by which Pristina accuses Serbia of genocide is an act against the dialogue and normalization of relations. The absence of reaction from the international community, Simic perceives as a sort of support to Pristina, adding no one wishes to build better relations between Serbs and Albanians.
After Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj dismissed Deputy Minister of Justice Vesna Mikic, and Minister of Administration and Local Government Ivan Todosijevic because – as it was interpreted in Pristina – they “insulted the Racak victims“ and referred to the 1999 bombing of the-then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as “NATO aggression,“ Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli decided to declare anyone who “denies war crimes in Kosovo persona non grata in Kosovo,“ KoSSev portal reports.
Belgrade based portal B92 reports, quoting Radio Television of Kosovo in Serbian language (RTK2), that the president of the Kosovo Assembly, Kadri Veseli claimed that on Monday formally started formation of an international tribunal for crimes committed by Serbia in Kosovo.
The portal reports that Veseli at the same time threatened with arrest of "cowards that are now free in Serbia".
Kosovo Albanian media reported on Sunday that the Kosovo police is guarding the Serbian Orthodox churches for 9 years now, having received this responsibility from KFOR, KoSSev portal reported.
According to the data of Raska-Prizren Eparchy, although it is true that 16 churches in the territory of Kosovo are under the constant protection of the Kosovo police, while two more are regularly visited by police patrols, one of the most important Serbian Orthodox Church temples in Kosovo, Visoki Decani Monastery is still under KFOR’s protection.
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minster Ivica Dacic said he doesn't believe an initiative to establish a court for crimes allegedly committed by Serbs in Kosovo will receive international support.
Dacic added that Pristina's announcements of the initiative to form such a tribunal is viewed in light of the attempts to find a balance with the work of a specialist court dealing with the KLA crimes.
The KLA is a former armed formation of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, considered by Serbia to be a terrorist organization.
President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday he regretted that his idea of establishing a final compromise boundary between Serbs and Albanians has failed.
As he said, the idea failed because "our people thought differently, and that will cost us dearly in two to three decades."
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic has warned that in the two months after the summit in Berlin, pressure on Serbia will be fiercer than ever before.
"The Berlin summit did not bring a solution, but a step has been made, given that Germany and France insist on the unblocking of the dialogue and the resumption of talks between Belgrade and Pristina," Dacic said in op-ed published by Srpski Telegraf.
It is important to become a part of the EU, but what's more important is to survive and secure a safe future for our children, and for this we need friends.
President Aleksandar Vucic wrote this in an op-ed published by the Belgrade based daily Kurir.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic would meet in Rome on May 8 with the Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, Tanjug news agency reports quoting diplomatic sources.
Kosovo and Metohija would be the topic of their conversation, Tanjug added.