Early elections would be “disastrous adventure”
Source: Tanjug, Večernje novosti
BELGRADE -- Serbia needs political stability and I do not believe that any coalition partner will cause early elections, says Deputy Prime Minister Jovan Krkobabić.
Jovan Krkobabić (Beta, file)
“It would only cost the citizens and nothing would change significantly in the state,” he told daily Večernje novosti.
“The moment is too critical for anyone to play games with the people and the state. We had elections last year, citizens said what they had to say and it is up to politicians now to take the responsibility. We all need to make an effort to reach the widest possible unity in the country because we are facing strong external and internal challenges. Elections could now be a disastrous adventure for the state. If they, however, happen, Party of United Pensioners of Serbia's (PUPS) is ready for such solution as well,” the deputy PM was quoted as saying.
He expects the state to show unity during the adoption of a resolution on Kosovo because “key political factors should reach a consensus on strategic issues for Serbia”.
According to him, this is important “so we could be much stronger in that field this time next year than we are today”.
“I am convinced at everybody in our coalition support combat against corruption and there should not be any differences there. Everybody who violated the law needs to answer. I believe that the ruling coalition will not be threatened by the combat (against corruption). Quite the contrary,” Krkobabić concluded.
sreda 9.01.2013 | 21:22 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Ivica Dačić says a draft resolution on Kosovo adopted by the state leadership on Wednesday, is "no obstacle to the defense of our state and national interests".
sreda 9.01.2013 | 20:54 | Source: Beta, Tanjug, Radio KiM | Comments: (73) | Send comment
PRIŠTINA -- The EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, has been sent complaints accusing members of the Kosovo police, KPS, of committing torture.
sreda 9.01.2013 | 18:57 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Serbian parliament's Collegium will hold a session on Thursday afternoon, which will table a draft resolution on Kosovo, Tanjug was told in parliament.
sreda 9.01.2013 | 16:35 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian PM Ivica Dačić said onWednesday that the government unanimously passed two documents on Kosovo but that they would not be presented to the public.
sreda 9.01.2013 | 14:59 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (27) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić and the government reached an agreement on two documents on Kosovo at a joint session on Wednesday.
sreda 9.01.2013 | 14:20 | Source: Beta | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- The European Parliament Civil Liberties Committee is expected to pass a mechanism allowing the EU to restore visa requirements for any Western Balkan state.
sreda 9.01.2013 | 11:44 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (9) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Release of Serbs arrested on Christmas in Gračanica is a proof that Priština did everything just to provoke and ruin the great holiday, says Aleksandar Vulin.
sreda 9.01.2013 | 11:17 | Source: B92 | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Political analyst Jovan Komšić says Vojvodina authorities are not threatened but that he would not rule out a possibility of early parliamentary elections.
sreda 9.01.2013 | 09:31 | Source: Danas | Comments: (49) | Send comment
BELGRADE, PREŠEVO -- Western diplomats have proposed political parties of ethnic Albanians to relocate a controversial from downtown Preševo.
utorak 8.01.2013 | 23:22 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (28) | Send comment
BELGRADE, PRIŠTINA -- All nine Serbs arrested by the Kosovo police, KPS, on Orthodox Christmas in the enclave of Gračanica have been released.
utorak 8.01.2013 | 16:47 | Source: B92 | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Opposition LDP party leader Čedomir Jovanović believes that "society in Serbia" is not ready for possible early parliamentary elections.
utorak 8.01.2013 | 16:09 | Source: Beta, Dnevnik | Comments: (0) | Send comment
NOVI SAD -- The head of the deputy group of the SNS party in the Vojvodina assembly has said that this year will see a change of the provincial authorities.
utorak 8.01.2013 | 15:59 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (16) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- Catherine Ashton "does not have her own plan for solving the situation in northern Kosovo, but relies on the European Council conclusions in her mediation".
utorak 8.01.2013 | 13:55 | Source: B92, Večernje novosti | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- A meeting of the Serbian government planned for Tuesday in order to adopt a draft resolution on Kosovo and Metohija, has been postponed.
utorak 8.01.2013 | 13:42 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- A session of the Serbian cabinet planned for Tuesday, that was to be attended by President Tomislav Nikolić, has been postponed for Wednesday.
utorak 8.01.2013 | 12:43 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dačić has said that he was ready to meet with his Croatian counterpart Zoran Milanović.
utorak 8.01.2013 | 11:25 | Source: RTS, Tanjug | Comments: (32) | Send comment
BELGRADE, PRIŠTINA -- Aleksandar Vulin has warned that arrests of Serbs in an enclave in Kosovo on Orthodox Christmas could adversely influence the Kosovo dialogue.
utorak 8.01.2013 | 09:34 | Source: Blic | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The largest party in the ruling coalition, the SNS, "has decided to go to early parliamentary elections this year", an article published on Tuesday claims.
ponedeljak 7.01.2013 | 17:33 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (11) | Send comment
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Aleksandar Vulin spent Christmas Eve on Sunday in Kosovska Mitrovica.
ponedeljak 7.01.2013 | 15:31 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (83) | Send comment
GRAČANICA -- The Kosovo police, KPS, on Monday detained several young Serbs after they attended Christmas liturgy in Gračanica.
ponedeljak 7.01.2013 | 11:57 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (26) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- President Tomislav Nikolić said on Christmas Day that he had wished to spend the holiday "where it is most difficult - in Kosovo".
ponedeljak 7.01.2013 | 09:57 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (6) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serb Orthodox Christians in the country and abroad are this Monday marking Christmas, the holiday of the birth of Jesus Christ.
nedelja 6.01.2013 | 16:02 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (43) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić has reiterated that authorities will remove a monument to a terror group by January 17.
nedelja 6.01.2013 | 15:52 | Source: RTS, Tanjug | Comments: (41) | Send comment
ĐAKOVICA -- A group of Kosovo Albanians have prevented a group of Orthodox believers from visiting the Church of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary in Đakovica.
nedelja 6.01.2013 | 15:41 | Source: Večernje novosti | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Negotiations on reintroduction of visas for Serbian citizens have become so complicated that the EU has postponed them, daily Večernje novosti writes.
nedelja 6.01.2013 | 14:52 | Source: Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader Aleksandar Vučić has said that his party does not want early elections but that it is not afraid of them either.
nedelja 6.01.2013 | 14:38 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (5) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian PM Ivica Dačić has noted that the platform on Kosovo by itself cannot solve the Kosovo problem unless talks with the Priština government are resumed.
nedelja 6.01.2013 | 13:44 | Source: Beta, Politika | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selaković has announced changes to about a dozen judicial laws, including the law on court networks.
nedelja 6.01.2013 | 12:34 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (15) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia’s President Tomislav Nikolić has stated in his Christmas message to citizens that Serbia will devote the entire year to reconciliation.
nedelja 6.01.2013 | 11:54 | Source: Večernje novosti | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- This is the last moment to achieve national unity on key issues, says UN General Assembly President Vuk Jeremić told daily Večernje novosti.
nedelja 6.01.2013 | 11:13 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE --
The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leadership confirmed at a session on Saturday that the ruling coalition was unified.
subota 5.01.2013 | 16:21 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Presidency meeting was held in Belgrade on Saturday.
subota 5.01.2013 | 16:13 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE --
The ruling coalition is responsible for appointing show business manager Saša Mirković assistant transport manager, claims Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
subota 5.01.2013 | 15:38 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (7) | Send comment
BAČ -- Democratic Party (DS) and Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) supporters have engaged in a fistfight in the northwestern town of Bač.
subota 5.01.2013 | 14:19 | Source: Danas, Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Before a decision on the start of EU accession talks is made, the EU needs to be convinced the Belgrade-Priština talks will lead to normalization of relations.
subota 5.01.2013 | 13:00 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- A meeting of top officials on a resolution on Kosovo will not be held today, says presidential advisor Marko Đurić.
subota 5.01.2013 | 11:58 | Source: Beta, Večernje novosti | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian parliament Speaker Nebojša Stefanović has said that he could schedule a session to debate a resolution on Kosovo next Friday.
subota 5.01.2013 | 10:53 | Source: Beta | Comments: (51) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia’s President Tomislav Nikolić has stated that he will not spend Christmas in the Gračanica monastery, Beta news agency has reported.
petak 4.01.2013 | 20:41 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (10) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian president's adviser Marko Đurić said on Friday that the Kosovo Albanian authorities in Priština had sent "a very negative signal".
petak 4.01.2013 | 18:15 | Source: B92, Beta | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- PM Ivica Dačić says "it is not good" that one of his ministers publicly criticized the appointment of a show business manager to the Ministry of Transport.
petak 4.01.2013 | 16:55 | Source: B92, Beta, Tanjug | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and United Regions of Serbia (URS) have traded accusations over appointment of show business manager Saša Mirković.
petak 4.01.2013 | 15:56 | Source: B92, Tanjug, Radio Free Europe | Comments: (35) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia’s President Tomislav Nikolić has strongly condemned EULEX’s inability to respond to his request to attend Christmas liturgy in the Gračanica monastery.
petak 4.01.2013 | 13:42 | Source: Beta | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Čedomir Jovanović has stated that Serbia was "a disorganized community", while the economic crisis was "a result of a deep crisis of running the society".
petak 4.01.2013 | 13:20 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (17) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- A platform on Kosovo and a resolution show that Serbia recognizes reality in Kosovo, Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo Director Aleksandar Vulin says.
petak 4.01.2013 | 12:17 | Source: Beta | Comments: (18) | Send comment
BELGRADE --
Serbian Energy Minister Zorana Mihajlović says that energy resources should be discussed in the Belgrade-Priština negotiations with the EU mediation.
petak 4.01.2013 | 10:53 | Source: B92 | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Belgrade Mayor Dragan Đilas told B92 on Friday that he did not know what would happen with the ruling majority in Belgrade.
petak 4.01.2013 | 09:23 | Source: Danas | Comments: (30) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- A case of a controversial memorial in the southern town of Preševo could soon be solved in talks with western ambassadors, daily Danas writes.
petak 4.01.2013 | 09:16 | Source: Beta, Politika | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for European integration Suzana Grubješić has stated that Brussels has no secret conditions for Serbia.
četvrtak 3.01.2013 | 22:15 | Source: Večernje novosti | Comments: (3) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia's leaders are yet to reach agreement on the final text of a draft resolution on Kosovo and Metohija that will be sent to parliament.
četvrtak 3.01.2013 | 14:52 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The Serbian government will meet for a special session on January 8 in order to consider the platform for Kosovo and Metohija.
četvrtak 3.01.2013 | 13:29 | Source: Beta | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- Ireland on Jan. 1 assumed the rotating presidency over the EU and called a meeting of European affairs ministers of the EU, Balkan countries and Iceland.
četvrtak 3.01.2013 | 11:46 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE --
Serbia's Deputy PM and Trade Minister Rasim Ljajić has said that early elections in 2013 would not be good for the Serbian economy and reforms.
četvrtak 3.01.2013 | 11:33 | Source: B92 | Comments: (0) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić told B92 on Thursday that probes into 24 controversial privatizations would be finished this year.
četvrtak 3.01.2013 | 10:30 | Source: Večernje novosti | Comments: (7) | Send comment
BELGRADE --
This year can be a turning point for Serbia, Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) leader Vojislav Koštunica has stated.
četvrtak 3.01.2013 | 09:49 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BUJANOVAC -- Serbian parliament Speaker Nebojša Stefanović visited Gendarmerie units in the Ground Safety Zone in the territory of the Bujanovac municipality on Wednesday.
četvrtak 3.01.2013 | 09:41 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia's foreign policy priorities in 2013 will remain the same as they have been to date, Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić has said.
četvrtak 3.01.2013 | 09:22 | Source: B92 | Comments: (4) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- PM Ivica Dačić says citizens will live slightly better in 2013 because he believes the country “will perhaps have the biggest economic growth in the region”.
