Kosovo leaders to meet with Clinton
Source: Tanjug
PRIŠTINA -- Kosovo’s president and prime minister have been invited to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Feb. 26, says the U.S. embassy in Priština.
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“The secretary of state is looking forward to the meeting with Kosovo’s president and prime minister on Feb. 26, in order to reassure them of the U.S. promise of friendship and support for Kosovo,” said State Department spokesman Robert Wood in a statement issued by the American embassy last night.
Additionally, it is stated that last year “Kosovo took quick steps forwards toward building democratic institutions and carrying out the basic principles of the Ahtisaari plan, including the protection of minority rights and cultural and religious heritage within its constitution.”
“As an independent state, Kosovo has welcomed effective cooperation with EULEX, NATO, the International Civilian Office and representatives of other international organizations,” said the statement.
The State Department added that Kosovo had cooperated in “building a stable and sustainable economy, a clear and simple system for the rule of law and other modern institutions, and a multiethnic and European democracy.”
The State Department “highly appreciates the Kosovo people and government’s efforts in promoting stability in the region and cooperation among the various entities and religions to work on building a secure and progressive future,” the statement ended.
sreda 18.02.2009 | 19:18 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
NOVI PAZAR -- The Bosniak List for a European Sandžak coalition representatives have met with OSCE officials, Tanjug reported on Wednesday.
sreda 18.02.2009 | 18:21 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- President Boris Tadić will meet with UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, chief Lamberto Zannier on Thursday, Tanjug news agency reported.
sreda 18.02.2009 | 18:15 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
NIŠ -- Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac and newly appointed Serbian Army (VS) Chief-of-the General-Staff Lt. Gen. Miloje Miletić were in Nis this Wednesday.
sreda 18.02.2009 | 16:20 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (12) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- An agreement for visa-free travel between Russia and Serbia will be signed on Feb. 20 in Moscow, according to diplomatic sources.
sreda 18.02.2009 | 15:26 | Source: FoNet | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Interior Minister Ivica Dačić says that Serbia could soon have police attachés in embassies and consulates throughout the world.
sreda 18.02.2009 | 15:03 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (9) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Association of Families of Missing and Kidnapped Kosovo Serbs has sent a protest note to UNMIK Chief Lamberto Zannier.
sreda 18.02.2009 | 12:59 | Source: Beta | Comments: (12) | Send comment
WARSAW -- Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has categorically rejected any possibility of partitioning the province.
sreda 18.02.2009 | 12:21 | Source: FoNet, Politika, Tanjug, Večernje novosti | Comments: (6) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Speaker Slavica Đukić-Dejanović has denied opposition accusations that she scheduled the Code of Procedure vote to prevent MPs from going to Kosovo yesterday.
sreda 18.02.2009 | 10:29 | Source: Borba | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Daily Borba writes that the police and the Interior Ministry are still run by the same people that were there when DSS official Dragan Jočić was the minister.
sreda 18.02.2009 | 09:32 | Source: B92, Beta | Comments: (12) | Send comment
NEW YORK -- Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić says that he has received confirmation that the UN remains committed to the full implementation of the six-point plan in Kosovo.
sreda 18.02.2009 | 09:20 | Source: B92 | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Kosovo Ministry State Secretary Oliver Ivanović believes conditions are not yet ripe for direct talks between Belgrade and Priština.
utorak 17.02.2009 | 23:08 | Source: B92, FoNet | Comments: (5) | Send comment
NEW YORK -- Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić met in New York on Tuesday afternoon local time with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
utorak 17.02.2009 | 21:43 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- An EU border management agency and Serbia's Internal Affairs Ministry (MUP) singed a working arrangement on Tuesday in Belgrade.
utorak 17.02.2009 | 21:23 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (24) | Send comment
ZVEČAN -- The Kosovo Serb assembly unanimously adopted in Zvečan today a declaration confirming Kosovo’s constitutional status within Serbia.
utorak 17.02.2009 | 17:42 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (17) | Send comment
MOSCOW -- Russia has not changed its negative position on the Kosovo Albanians' unilateral declaration of independence even a year after it was made.
utorak 17.02.2009 | 17:20 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (8) | Send comment
LONDON, BERLIN, VIENNA -- The western newspapers write that a year after Kosovo’s unilateral independence proclamation, the expectations of its leaders and people have not been met.
utorak 17.02.2009 | 16:45 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (42) | Send comment
PRIŠTINA -- Albanians in Kosovo are marking the first anniversary of the province's unilateral declaration of independence.
utorak 17.02.2009 | 15:47 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The ruling majority has pushed through amendments to the Code of Procedure, aimed at hastening and streamlining legislative procedures.
utorak 17.02.2009 | 14:10 | Source: Beta | Comments: (12) | Send comment
LONDON -- Despite the predictions of violence in the region after Kosovo’s independence declaration, “thankfully, nothing has happened,” British weekly Economist writes.
utorak 17.02.2009 | 13:19 | Source: Beta, Politika | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Kosovo Minister Goran Bogdanović says that the diplomatic struggle to keep the province in Serbia has yielded positive results.
utorak 17.02.2009 | 13:05 | Source: Tanjug, Večernje novosti | Comments: (5) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- EULEX chief Yves de Kermabon says that his mission is not in Kosovo to make laws or reach political decisions.
utorak 17.02.2009 | 09:35 | Source: FoNet, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (25) | Send comment
BELGRADE, OXFORD -- President Boris Tadić says he hopes the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision will enable better relations with Kosovo.
utorak 17.02.2009 | 09:31 | Source: FoNet | Comments: (13) | Send comment
OXFORD -- Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić says that Serbia is an integral, key factor in speeding up the European integration of the Western Balkans.
ponedeljak 16.02.2009 | 19:43 | Source: Beta | Comments: (6) | Send comment
BRATISLAVA -- There is a broad consensus in Slovakia against recognizing Kosovo, the country's new foreign minister, Miroslav Lajčak, says.
ponedeljak 16.02.2009 | 19:37 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (14) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Parliament's Committee for Kosovo will hold a meeting in the north of the province on Tuesday, reports suggest.
ponedeljak 16.02.2009 | 19:21 | Source: B92, Beta, Politika, Tanjug | Comments: (27) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić said that negotiations with the UN and UNMIK will start tomorrow, centering on the implementation of the six-point plan.
ponedeljak 16.02.2009 | 16:12 | Source: B92, FoNet, Beta | Comments: (6) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović said on Monday that the country will "never give up its fight for Kosovo".
ponedeljak 16.02.2009 | 14:05 | Source: B92, Beta | Comments: (27) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Martti Ahtisaari, joined by two other diplomats who were involved in the Kosovo status negotiations, says Kosovo is "lost for Serbia".
ponedeljak 16.02.2009 | 12:27 | Source: B92 | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The new top Serbian Army (VS) brass will not cause great turbulence, military analyst Aleksandar Radić told B92.
ponedeljak 16.02.2009 | 09:35 | Source: Tanjug, Večernje novosti | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Opposition New Serbia (NS) leader Velimir Ilić says he and Labor Minister Rasim Ljajić have together resolved a dispute.
nedelja 15.02.2009 | 20:39 | Source: Beta | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Opposition Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and Serb Progressive Party (SNS) officials have today voiced their criticism of the draft Vojvodina statute.
nedelja 15.02.2009 | 15:21 | Source: Beta | Comments: (13) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Serbian parliament members have mostly accepted an invitation to travel to northern Kosovo on Feb. 17.
nedelja 15.02.2009 | 13:51 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send comment
ORAŠAC, BELGRADE -- Serbia is this Sunday celebrating Statehood and Army Day, with the central festivities in the historic Orašac, central Serbia.
nedelja 15.02.2009 | 13:09 | Source: B92, Beta | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Opposition New Serbia (NS) officials say an announced probe into leader Velimir Ilić's comments in parliament represent "continued manhunt" against him.
nedelja 15.02.2009 | 11:11 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (30) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić told the BBC on Saturday that Serbia will never recognize Kosovo's independence.
nedelja 15.02.2009 | 10:50 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- President Boris Tadić has appointed Lt. Gen. Miloje Miletić to the post of the Serbian Army (VS) chief-of-the-general-staff.
subota 14.02.2009 | 23:44 | Source: Beta | Comments: (4) | Send comment
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- A strong blast was heard this evening at around 22:00 CET in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, Beta reports.
subota 14.02.2009 | 18:11 | Source: Tanjug, Večernje novosti | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Ivica Dačić believes that Serbia would not lose if Vojvodina were to get autonomy.
subota 14.02.2009 | 15:38 | Source: B92, FoNet | Comments: (10) | Send comment
PRIŠTINA -- Kosovo's Premier Hashim Thaci says "all measures have been undertaken" so that the celebration of Feb. 17 goes peacefully.
subota 14.02.2009 | 15:16 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia's public prosecutor will ask for the tapes showing NS leader and MP Velimir Ilić's remarks made in parliament, reports said.
subota 14.02.2009 | 15:09 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Labor Minister Rasim Ljajić has on Saturday visited New Serbia leader and MP Velimir Ilić in hospital in Belgrade.
subota 14.02.2009 | 14:59 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
NOVI SAD -- Members of the Serbian Army (VS) were today in Novi Sad demonstrating their skills in an exercise dubbed Sretenje 2009.
subota 14.02.2009 | 14:38 | Source: Beta | Comments: (36) | Send comment
NOVI SAD -- President Boris Tadić said on Saturday that Kosovo is the most important and most sensitive issue faced by Serbia.
subota 14.02.2009 | 13:18 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send comment
NOVI SAD -- President Boris Tadić said on Saturday in Novi Sad that the Vojvodina statute will in no way violate Serbia's wholeness.
subota 14.02.2009 | 13:18 | Source: Beta | Comments: (13) | Send comment
PRIŠTINA -- France, the Czech Republic and Sweden are persuading Kosovo Albanian officials to negotiate the UN six-point plan with Belgrade, a report says.
subota 14.02.2009 | 12:14 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (9) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac met with his Portuguese counterpart Nuno Severiano Teixeira who was on a visit here on Friday.
subota 14.02.2009 | 10:56 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment
PRIŠTINA -- EU representative in Kosovo Peter Feith says he was "sincere and balanced" in his report to the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
subota 14.02.2009 | 10:55 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send comment
VIENNA -- An Austrian army NCO deployed in Kosovo as part of KFOR has been accused of "using clear Nazi gesticulation".
petak 13.02.2009 | 16:52 | Source: B92 | Comments: (0) | Send comment
PRIŠTINA -- A group of seven non-governmental organizations have named the leader of the Independent Liberal Party in Kosovo, Slobodan Petrović, “Personality of the Year.”
petak 13.02.2009 | 16:35 | Source: B92 | Comments: (11) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Though EU Commissioner Olli Rehn says now is not the time for Serbia to submit a candidacy application, Vuk Jeremić says that Serbia will plough on regardless.
petak 13.02.2009 | 16:26 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (14) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The government has vehemently condemned comments made in parliament yesterday by NS leader Velimir Ilić at the expense of Labor Minister Rasim Ljajić.
petak 13.02.2009 | 15:11 | Source: Beta | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Parliamentary Administrative Committee has allowed three former SRS officials who left to join the SNS to keep their parliamentary mandates.
petak 13.02.2009 | 13:14 | Source: Beta | Comments: (28) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- UK Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth says that recognizing Kosovo independence is not a condition for Serbia to become a European Union member.
petak 13.02.2009 | 12:16 | Source: Tanjug, Večernje novosti | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Čedomir Jovanović says that to call elections at this point would be “pointless.”
petak 13.02.2009 | 11:05 | Source: B92, Danas | Comments: (0) | Send comment
NOVI SAD -- The Democratic Party (DS) in Vojvodina has dismissed claims the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) refuses to support the Vojvodina Statute in parliament.
petak 13.02.2009 | 10:00 | Source: B92 | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac says that reforms will continue in all areas of the defense system.
petak 13.02.2009 | 09:32 | Source: B92 | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The competent ministers and regional secretaries will today adopt a stance on the draft Law on Vojvodina’s Jurisdictions, says the province's first minister.
četvrtak 12.02.2009 | 16:58 | Source: B92, Beta | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serb Radical Party MP Srboljub Živanović physically attacked (SNS) counterpart Igor Bečić in parliament this afternoon, causing proceedings to be adjourned.
četvrtak 12.02.2009 | 16:44 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (14) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn has reiterated that Serbia’s EU integration process is not tied to Kosovo's status.
četvrtak 12.02.2009 | 13:00 | Source: FoNet | Comments: (6) | Send comment
MOSCOW -- The Russian government has approved a draft agreement between Russia and Serbia on the introduction of a visa-free regime between the two countries.
četvrtak 12.02.2009 | 12:13 | Source: Beta | Comments: (0) | Send comment
NOVI SAD -- Infrastructure Minister Milutin Mrkonjić says that the government is stable and there is no reason for it not to see out its entire mandate.
četvrtak 12.02.2009 | 12:01 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (49) | Send comment
PRIŠTINA -- Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci says that he is disappointed with Serbia’s "chauvinistic" approach towards Kosovo.
četvrtak 12.02.2009 | 11:55 | Source: Beta, BBC, Tanjug | Comments: (13) | Send comment
KRAGUJEVAC, LONDON -- Serbia’s priorities include protecting sovereignty and territorial integrity, accelerating EU integration and regional cooperation, says Vuk Jeremić.
četvrtak 12.02.2009 | 10:13 | Source: Tanjug, Večernje novosti | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) founder and leader Vuk Drašković won't run again for the party presidency at the next SPO election assembly, says daily Novosti.
četvrtak 12.02.2009 | 10:02 | Source: B92 | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Supreme Court (VSS) President Vida Petrović-Škero says that the authorities will look into conflict of interests claims concerning the justice minister and RIK.
