Albanians in south to request community of municipalities
Source: B92
PREŠEVO -- Ethnic Albanians in southern Serbia will request from the Serbian government to form a community of Albanian municipalities.
They will demand that their community be modeled after a community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo.
A session of the assembly of Albanian municipal councilors from Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa is held today in Preševo.
The ethnic Albanians stand by their positions that they should have at least the same rights as Serbs in northern Kosovo.
The final decision on the issue should be made today.
A session of the Albanian councilors of the Preševo Valley was suddenly called on Friday but political leaders of ethnic Albanians did not say what would be discussed.
Preševo Mayor and Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) leader Ragmi Mustafa did not want to say why the emergency session was called.
“We will offer councilors a document that will be our platform in the upcoming talks between Belgrade and Preševo Valley Albanians,” he told B92.
Democratic Union of the Valley leader Skender Destani said that the document would represents Albanians’ response to Belgrade’s offer regarding normalization of relations.
A dialogue between Coordination Body for Southern Serbia Chairman Zoran Stanković and political leaders of ethnic Albanians started on February 15 in OSCE Mission’s office in Bujanovac.
The Albanians sent a letter to Belgrade and relevant international institutions with eight requests.
They believe that a body modeled after the community of Serb municipalities would solve all problems much faster in the future.
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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA --
Aleksandar Vulin said on Thursday that Serbs from northern Kosovo he had spoken to supported the policy aiming to protect the Serbian constitutional system.
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BELGRADE --
The Serbian parliament began its regular spring sitting on Thursday. MPs will discuss several bills, including agreements with the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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BRUSSELS -- European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur Tanja Fajon has said that negotiations about a mechanism for the suspension of the visa-free regime are still underway.
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BELGRADE -- Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić has stated that during his visit to Zagreb he came across a warm welcome and cooperativeness of Croatian officials.
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BRUSSELS -- Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo Director Aleksandar Vulin says Priština is blocking the implementation of agreements on exchange of liaison officers.
utorak 5.03.2013 | 16:57 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- The ruling Progressives, headed by Aleksandar Vučić, are now clearly suggesting that Serbia will either see its government reshuffled, or head to the polls.
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BELGRADE -- Goran Ješić has published the results of laboratory analyses of milk done in Munich, showing that some samples had aflatoxin content exceeding 0.5 micrograms.
utorak 5.03.2013 | 14:58 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (8) | Send comment
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Dragiša Vlašković has been elected municipal president of Kosovska Mitrovica at an extraordinary session of the local assembly.
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BRUSSELS -- EU Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn said on Tuesday after a meeting with PM Ivica Dačić that he accepted the invitation to visit Serbia.
utorak 5.03.2013 | 12:15 | Source: Danas, Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
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NEW YORK -- A session of the UN Security Council to discuss UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's latest report on the situation in Kosovo will be held on March 22.
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BRUSSELS -- PM Ivica Dačić has stated after the sixth round of the dialogue that no agreement was reached on jurisdictions of a proposed association of Serb municipalities.
ponedeljak 4.03.2013 | 16:59 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (15) | Send comment
BRUSSELS -- The dialogue between Belgrade and Priština continued in Brussels on Monday for two hours at the office of European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
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VIENNA -- The EU has to finally consider the legitimate interest of the Serbs in Kosovo and abandon the stance biased towards the Kosovo Albanians.
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BELGRADE -- Italian Ambassador to Serbia Armando Varricchio stated on Monday that Italy and Serbia "traditionally cooperate well" in the fight against organized crime.
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BELGRADE -- Deputy PM in charge of EU integrations Suzana Grubješić has said that the dialogue with Priština represented "a tight rope walk".
ponedeljak 4.03.2013 | 10:17 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
NOVI SAD -- Serb Progressive Party (SNS) and the Socialist Party (SPS) candidates won most votes in the second round of provincial by-elections for the Vojvodina assembly.
nedelja 3.03.2013 | 20:19 | Source: B92, Tanjug | Comments: (24) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Serbia will stick by its concept of Serb municipalities and remain firmly committed to working out a compromise in the dialogue with Priština authorities.
nedelja 3.03.2013 | 15:38 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (2) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Health Minister Slavica Đukić-Dejanović says that a parliamentary session on aflatoxin contamination is an opportunity to pass some binding bills.
nedelja 3.03.2013 | 15:07 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (1) | Send comment
NOVI SAD -- League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) deputy leader Bojan Kostreš believes there are more reasons to hold early parliamentary than provincial elections.
nedelja 3.03.2013 | 14:01 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (8) | Send comment
JAGODINA -- Serbian parliament's Committee on Kosovo Chairman Milovan Drecun says the Belgrade-Priština dialogue will continue because it has no alternative.
nedelja 3.03.2013 | 13:04 | Source: Beta | Comments: (1) | Send comment
BELGRADE -- Deputy PM Suzana Grubješić says the dialogue with Priština is like “waling a thin line” but that Serbia still has good chances of getting an EU talks date.
nedelja 3.03.2013 | 11:32 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (0) | Send comment
NOVI SAD -- Voting is underway in the second round of additional provincial elections in three towns in Vojvodina – Zrenjanin, Apatin and Srbobran.
