SNS is pro-European party, opposition leader claims
Source: Tanjug
VIENNA -- Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader Tomislav Nikolić has stated that the EU did not set Kosovo as a condition for Serbia's further EU integration.
Tomislav Nikolić (Beta, file)
"So far, no one from the EU has set a condition to Serbia by saying that if the country does not want to give up on Kosovo, it will not join the EU. Serbia wants to be an EU member, and it has not separated from Kosovo," he told Vienna-based daily Die Presse.
Nikolić signed a cooperation agreement with the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) in Vienna Wednesday.
Commenting the ideas on the possible division of Kosovo, the SNS leader stressed that such a move would be contrary to Serbia's Constitution, but that it represented a possibility for a new dialogue.
"In the part of Kosovo with the Serb population, the ethnic Albanians have no authority, and it is hard to imagine that they could ever again have, just like Serbia no longer has the power in Priština and it will not be able to reestablish it," he stressed.
Regarding the arrest of Hague Tribunal indictee Ratko Mladić and the comment that he protested over Radovan Karadžić's arrest in 2008, Nikolić recalled that, at the time, he had been a head of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) which had decided to stage a public protest.
"However, the Radicals never had the desire to come in power. SNS is something else. We are a pro-European party, and Mladić's extradition was one of the conditions in the EU accession process. If we were to stand against the EU, we would not be able to win elections in Serbia. That is why we did not wish to protest," he explained.
četvrtak 16.06.2011 | 16:54 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (7) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić said on Thursday in Brussels that Serbia's goal was to start accession talks with the EU in the spring of 2012.
četvrtak 16.06.2011 | 15:02 | Source: Beta | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serb Progressive Party (SNS) deputy leader Aleksandar Vučić has accused Serbian President Boris Tadić of being “a man of the past“.
četvrtak 16.06.2011 | 13:30 | Source: Beta | Comments: (12) | Send comment
MOSCOW -- The Russian government has put Serbia on a list of countries with “complicated social-political situation” together with Tajikistan, Georgia and Abkhazia.
četvrtak 16.06.2011 | 11:20 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (11) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian President Boris Tadić says it is impossible that the Serb Progressive Party (SNS) will form a government because citizens do not want to be isolated.
četvrtak 16.06.2011 | 10:43 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) Annual Assembly participants say independence of journalists and freedom of expression must be respected.
četvrtak 16.06.2011 | 09:50 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- A visiting U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday that Serbia and the United States had improved their bilateral relations.
četvrtak 16.06.2011 | 09:39 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE --
Labor Minister Rasim Ljajić conferred on Wednesday in Belgrade with Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg, said reports.
četvrtak 16.06.2011 | 09:26 | Source: B92, Beta | Comments: (5) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- President Boris Tadić said on Wednesday that Kosovo was not a precondition for Serbia's admission to the European Union.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 16:36 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (5) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Participants of the Strategic Military Partner Conference in Belgrade adopted conclusions and wrapped up the conference on Wednesday.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 16:26 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Chief of Serbian Armed Forces General Staff Miloje Miletić met in Belgrade with Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Giampaolo di Paola.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 16:05 | Source: B92 | Comments: (7) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Higher Court in Belgrade has reached a decision in a lawsuit against Mirjana Marković and Marija Milošević, B92 has learned.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 15:10 | Source: FoNet, Blic | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac has dismissed accusations leveled at NATO and its military conference ongoing in Belgrade as "nonsensical".
sreda 15.06.2011 | 14:12 | Source: B92 | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The High Judicial Council (VSS) on Wednesday started interviewing judges who according to the VSS did not meet the criteria necessary to perform their duties.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 13:35 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Soon after the Serbian parliament started a discussion on a United Regions of Serbia (URS) decentralization proposal today, the party's MPs left the session.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 13:25 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon met on Wednesday in Belgrade with Serbia's Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 13:24 | Source: Blic, Tanjug | Comments: (5) | Send comment
ZVEČAN -- The center of organized crime in Kosovo and Metohija is Priština, rather than the north of the province, Kosovo Ministry State Secretary Oliver Ivanović says.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 12:29 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Residents of the town of Zubin Potok today blocked entry into the local police station, protesting the rotation of police commanders in northern Kosovo.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 12:25 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (17) | Send comment
PRIŠTINA -- The Kosovo authorities in Priština will not introduce a 10-percent "customs tax" on the products coming from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 10:27 | Source: FoNet | Comments: (28) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- One of EU enlargement preconditions is recognizing neighboring countries’ territorial integrity, German Federal Foreign Office State Minister Werner Hoyer says.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 09:58 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Božidar Đelić will visit Brussels on June 15-16, it has been announced.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 09:57 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Congolese Foreign Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwambe decided to recall counselor at the Congolese Embassy in Belgrade Marc Marius Itela Elombola.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 09:32 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The three-day Assembly of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) began in Belgrade Wednesday.
sreda 15.06.2011 | 09:29 | Source: FoNet, Tanjug | Comments: (22) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- If Serbia retreated in front of ethnic Albanian separatists, the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo would not be the last the country would face.
utorak 14.06.2011 | 16:33 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (11) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- NATO Commander of Allied Command Transformation Stephane Abrial says a decision on NATO membership will be a sovereign decision of official Belgrade.
utorak 14.06.2011 | 15:37 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (10) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac says the Strategic Military Partner Conference in Belgrade has considerable military, but not political significance.
utorak 14.06.2011 | 14:41 | Source: FoNet, RTS, Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Kosovo Minister Goran Bogdanović says that organ trafficking charges brought against private Priština clinic Medicus were "a good message to Kosovo Serbs".
utorak 14.06.2011 | 11:57 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Serbian parliament on Tuesday voted to adopt a bill designed to regulate funding of political activities, and another amending the Law on Excise Duties.
utorak 14.06.2011 | 09:43 | Source: Beta | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BRATISLAVA -- Slovak President Ivan Gašparovič met with Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić and said his country supported Serbia's entry into the European Union "without reservation".
utorak 14.06.2011 | 09:26 | Source: B92, Blic | Comments: (23) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Carla Del Ponte has said that she was not contacted as an EULEX team was being set up to probe allegations of human organ trafficking in Kosovo.
utorak 14.06.2011 | 04:29 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian and Hungarian PMs Mirko Cvetković and Viktor Orban agreed that good political ties provide an opportunity to raise economic relations to a higher level.
ponedeljak 13.06.2011 | 17:16 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
NIŠ -- President Boris Tadić says protests are "part of the democratic procedure", while "any democratic and legal expression of opinion is completely natural".
ponedeljak 13.06.2011 | 15:38 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The respect which the world has for the Serbian Army has resulted in the NATO conference being held in Belgrade, said Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac.
ponedeljak 13.06.2011 | 15:21 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Opposition Serb Radicals (SRS) and the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) today in Belgrade separately campaigned against an upcoming NATO-organized conference.
ponedeljak 13.06.2011 | 14:05 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Police Union of Serbia (PSS) reached an agreement with the Interior Ministry Monday to end their strike which began at 06:00 CET on Monday.
ponedeljak 13.06.2011 | 13:33 | Source: FoNet | Comments: (32) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- FM Vuk Jeremić has said it would be "a big mistake" to further condition Serbia's steps toward the EU with pressure regarding the dialogue with Priština.
ponedeljak 13.06.2011 | 12:10 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (5) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- A military investigation has shown that the Serbian army and the Military Security Agency had not been hiding war crimes indictee Ratko Mladić.
ponedeljak 13.06.2011 | 09:34 | Source: B92 | Comments: (18) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Belgrade will in the next few days host a strategic military conference of NATO and Partnershio for Peace countries.
ponedeljak 13.06.2011 | 09:29 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian President and leader of the Ruling Democrats Boris Tadić stated on Sunday that the start of EU accession talks in 2012 would be a historic event.
nedelja 12.06.2011 | 17:05 | Source: FoNet | Comments: (0) | Send comment
KRALJEVO -- Opposition New Serbia (NS) leader Velimir Ilić believes that the government is unable to solve problems.
nedelja 12.06.2011 | 16:19 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (8) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Čedomir Jovanović thinks that Serbia should join NATO as soon as possible because it would be a shortcut to the EU.
nedelja 12.06.2011 | 15:27 | Source: FoNet | Comments: (26) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Neither Serbs nor Albanians decide about Kosovo, but the most powerful countries instead, Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dačić has said.
nedelja 12.06.2011 | 15:24 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dačić laid a wreath on Sunday at the memorial plate in Belgrade honoring Serbia's first interior minister Jakov Nenadović.
nedelja 12.06.2011 | 13:09 | Source: B92 | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- United Regions of Serbia (URS) proposal for fiscal decentralization will not increase the state deficit, instead, the URS has announced.
nedelja 12.06.2011 | 10:41 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Police Union of Serbia (PSS) and the Interior Ministry have agreed on ways to improve police officers’ financial situation.
nedelja 12.06.2011 | 10:39 | Source: Blic, Danas | Comments: (7) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Defense Ministry State Secretary Tanja Miščević has said that the upcoming military conference is not a “NATO summit”.
subota 11.06.2011 | 15:47 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (18) | Send comment
WASHINGTON -- Independent investigative mechanism should be formed under UN auspices to probe human organ trade allegations, Serbian Justice Minister Snežana Malović says.
subota 11.06.2011 | 15:33 | Source: Blic | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- United Regions of Serbia (URS) leader Mlađan Dinkić says Belgrade Mayor Dragan Đilas played a key role in bringing closer the URS and the Democratic Party (DS).
subota 11.06.2011 | 15:05 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) says it is against Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković's appointment as head of a coordination team in charge of EU accession.
subota 11.06.2011 | 13:32 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (9) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton hopes a probe will soon reveal the truth about human organ trade in Kosovo.
subota 11.06.2011 | 13:09 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
Trieste -- Italian FM Franco Frattini stated in Trieste on Friday that EU's doors were open to Serbia regarding obtaining the candidate status by the end of the year.
subota 11.06.2011 | 12:05 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (43) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The desecration of the church is a message to Serbs about ethnic Albanian community and Kosovo government's attitude, Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović says.
subota 11.06.2011 | 11:38 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- The next, fifth round of Belgrade-Priština talks will be held end June, and the decision was made by EU facilitator Robert Cooper.
petak 10.06.2011 | 17:06 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (7) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) says tabloid Alo's editor-in-chief Antonije Kovačević was dismissed "for standing up to Boris Tadić".
petak 10.06.2011 | 16:16 | Source: Danas | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The former economy minister and one of PM Mirko Cvetković's deputies, Mlađan Dinkić, says the appointment of Cvetković was the ruling party's "biggest mistake".
petak 10.06.2011 | 15:53 | Source: B92 | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BUJANOVAC -- An extraordinary Municipal Council meeting has been called in Bujanovac after Serbian National Council announced it wanted to "divide the town into two parts".
petak 10.06.2011 | 15:22 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (5) | Send comment
Prokuplje -- President Boris Tadić on Friday opened a new factory of German car cable maker Leoni in the Serbian town of Prokuplje.
petak 10.06.2011 | 15:16 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Pierre Mirel said in Belgrade Friday that Serbia has made considerable progress toward the EU and that no new conditions will be imposed in the further process.
petak 10.06.2011 | 13:08 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- A meeting of foreign ministers of the Central European Initiative (CEI) member states will be held in Trieste on Friday, said reports.
petak 10.06.2011 | 13:04 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
A founding assembly of the Bosniak Academy of Sciences and Arts (BANU), which will have 21 members, was held in Novi Pazar on Thursday.
petak 10.06.2011 | 13:00 | Source: RTS, Tanjug | Comments: (39) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- The EU has decided to appoint a special prosecutor and a team to investigate the Kosovo human organ trafficking allegations, said reports.
petak 10.06.2011 | 12:41 | Source: B92 | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- EU mediator in the Belgrade-Priština talks Robert Cooper has decided to postpone the dialogue which was scheduled for June 14-15.
petak 10.06.2011 | 10:57 | Source: Beta | Comments: (3) | Send comment
LUXEMBOURG -- The EU Council of Ministers did not discuss any temporary suspension of visa-free regime for the Western Balkans countries.
