Croatian Defence Minister Branko Vukelic and his Serbian counterpart Dragan Sutanovac have signed a “historic agreement” on military cooperation. Currently on a two-day visit to Zagreb, Sutanovac met with Croatian President Ivo Josipovic on Monday, and the two agreed that there was no alternative to cooperation between the two countries …
Read More »Spanish Ambassador to Serbia about Kosovo and Serbia’s EU bid
Spanish Ambassador to Serbia Inigo de Palacio Espana says that he believes that Serbia will continue the EU integration process with no Kosovo status as precondition. “Many top-ranking European officials said that this issue will not be set as prerequisite to Serbia’s
Read More »Slovakia supports Serbia’s EU bid
Foreign ministers of Serbia and Slovakia, Vuk Jeremić and Miroslav Lajčak, met on Thursday on Bratislava. They said that the EU-Western Balkans summit in Sarajevo earlier this week had confirmed the EU’s commitment to continued enlargement.
Read More »Serbian FM to meet Slovak counterpart
Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić is today visiting Bratislava, where he will meet with his Slovak counterpart Miroslav Lajčak. Jeremić and Lajčak are scheduled to sign a Memorandum of
Read More »Greece reiterates support for Belgrade’s EU bid
Serbia should join the EU as soon as possible, Greek President Karolos Papoulias said on Tuesday (June 1st), after meeting with Serbian counterpart Boris Tadic in Athens. Papoulias stressed that Greece will continue to support Belgrade in its membership bid. He also reiterated that efforts aimed at resolving Kosovo’s status …
Read More »Serbian president kicks off 3-day visit to Greece
Serbian President Boris Tadic kicked off his 3-day visit to Greece, where he is slated to meet Greek top officials as well as Greek businessmen at the business-forum. Tadic is slated to meet his Greek counterpart Karolos Papoulias as well as Greek Parliament Speaker Filippos Petsalnikos.
Read More »Serbia plans to send peacekeepers to Lebanon, Cyprus
Serbian Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac said on Sunday (May 30th) that Serbia plans to send troops to UN peacekeeping missions in Lebanon and Cyprus, possibly this year. “If we want to take care of Serbia’s security, we must move outside the borders of our country, because it is clear that …
Read More »Serbia allows EU citizens to travel without passports
The government decided on Friday (May 28th) to allow EU citizens, as well as those of Switzerland, Norway and Iceland, to enter Serbia and travel around the country without a passport this summer, relying instead on an identity card. The announcement, made at a joint press conference in Belgrade by …
Read More »Serbia threatens to stop co-operating with EULEX
Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said on Wednesday (May 26th) that Serbia may stop co-operating with EULEX following the mission’s decision to ban unauthorised visits by Serbian officials. They have been travelling there to campaign ahead of Sunday’s unauthorised elections in northern Kosovo. Bogdanovic accused EULEX of taking the …
Read More »Raska mass grave exhumation to begin in June
Working groups from Kosovo and Serbia met on Wednesday (May 26th) in Pristina to discuss technical details ahead of the exhumation of a mass grave discovered in Raska, southern Serbia, earlier this month. “We expect the work to begin intensively in two to three weeks at the latest,” Pajazit Nushi, …
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