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Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Greece Georgios Papandreou is to visit Belgrade today. Papandreou will take part in the annual conference of ambassadors to Serbia. During the visit in Belgrade he will meet with his counterpart Mirko Cvetkovic and the president of the state Boris Tadic.
Read More »Serbia to File Genocide Suit Against Croatia
Serbia will on Monday file a countersuit before the International Court of Justice, ICJ, against Croatia for genocide allegedly committed against Serbs during the war in 90s and World War II. “There is a lot of material which will turn on the lights on the international stage and show what …
Read More »Bulgaria backs Serbia’s EU bid, unlikely to change stance on Kosovo – ambassador
Bulgaria will continue to support Serbia’s bid to join the European Union, but was unlikely to withdraw its recognition of the independence of Kosovo, Sofia’s top diplomat in Belgrade said on January 2. “Membership in the EU means that the country is stable, progressive and predictable and such a Serbia …
Read More »Montenegrin president: “Kosovo must recognize Montenegrins”
Filip Vujanović says that he will sign a decree appointing an ambassador to Priština “once Kosovo recognizes Montenegrins as an ethnic minority”. “I am convinced that this issue needs to be addressed before we appoint ambassadors, because it is correct toward our community in Kosovo. It would also be a …
Read More »Action Team “has idea” on Mladić whereabouts
It is obvious that Ratko Mladić is still hiding well and successfully, and that he can postpone his extradition in this way, says Rasim Ljajić. “If the services continue to work in this way, the arrest of Mladić cannot be avoided,” he said, and added that he could not specify …
Read More »Serbia “on right path again”, Serbian FM
Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić says Serbia has the capacity and resolve to “break all records in 2010”, when it comes to the speed of joining the EU. “From a hyperactive year in the foreign policy domain, Serbia is entering another of the kind. We are resolved to catch up with …
Read More »Mesic: Declaration of Kosovo independence marks the end of SFRJ
Kosovo’s independence marks the end of Former Yugoslavia and has set a new architecture in South-east Europe, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said. The Croatian President is scheduled to visit Kosovo on January 8. “If Serbia can’t recognize Kosovo’s independence, no one can force her to do so”, Mesic added.
Read More »Municipal official elected in Serb enclave
Goran Lazić of the Independent Liberal Party (SLS) was named the assembly speaker in Gračanica at the assembly’s constitutive session. Lazić receive 14 votes from officials elected during the local elections in Kosovo held on November 15, organized by the Kosovo Albanian government in Priština. Ignored in the northern, Serb-dominated …
Read More »French ambassador: We want Serbia in EU
“France wants Serbia in the EU and that is the essence of our policy and our strategic course,” says French Ambassador Jean Francois Terral. The French diplomat said that during the meeting of the French and Serbian presidents on May 27 in Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy stressed that “we wanted Serbia …
Read More »Serbian Defense Minister pushes for NATO debate in 2010
Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac said that Serbia will be working within the framework of NATO, “even if it does not become a member-state”. He mentioned Austria as an example of this, and added that he hopes a debate will begin on this topic in 2010. “We will have to …
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