Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica DaÄić stated on Sunday that the government had not discussed Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić’s dismissal.
He points out that the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) did not have any objections to Jeremić’s work so far and that he does not wish to comment on the position of the Democratic Party (DS) concerning the issue.
Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) leader Tomislav Nikolić has stated that Belgrade-Priština dialogue should begin with talks about the issue of Kosovo status.
He told daily VeÄernje novosti that talks about so-called life issues, mentioned by Serbian President Boris Tadić, were actually establishing Kosovo as an independent state.
Serbian IM Ivica DaÄić and Bavarian State Minister for Federal and European Affairs Emilia Muller say abuse of visa liberalization must be prevented.
DaÄić will also speak with Belgian State Secretary for Finance, Migration and Asylum Melchior Wathelet about the issue of false asylum seekers that threatens Serbia’s “white Schengen” visa regime.
Date of Kosovo elections remains unknown, while in Priština the consultations are ongoing between acting President Jakup Krasnici and the parliamentary parties. The parties have suggested that early parliamentary elections in Kosovo be held either in early February next year, the middle of that month or early March.
EU Foreign Affairs Council will discuss Serbia’s request for EU membership at the meeting in Luxembourg on October 25. This is according to Belgian Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere.
EULEX officials and representatives of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime and interior ministries of Serbia and Hungary met in PriÅ¡tina, say reports. They discussed trafficking of people from Kosovo to the EU member states, the Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime Miljko Radisavljević said in a statement in Belgrade on Thursday.
Begrade and PriÅ¡tina should discuss everything, including the status of Kosovo, says Slovakian FM Mikulas Dzurinda. “I’m sure both sides will be open to negotiations on all subjects and I think that no issue should be off limits,” he told Belgrade daily VeÄernje Novosti.
Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović said stated that all disputable issues, including status, should be discussed with the Kosovo Albanians. He said that solutions for the preservation of the Serb community and improving living conditions, along with many other problems must be found, but added that the status of the province is also a central issue for Serbia.
Former Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Aleksandr Alekseyev “no important official” has said lately that a partition of Kosovo was realistic.
He told Belgrade daily VeÄernje Novosti that such an outcome had been discussed a long time ago, and “even during negotiations in Rambouillet”, prior to NATO’s attack on Serbia in 1999.
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Not only geo-location services were discussed at South by Southwest Interactive that was this week in Austin. A quick sampling of what is generating buzz runs the gamut from expert finders to plenty of social-media services.
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Michael Kordahi and Andrew Coates, the Microsoft developer evangelists recently had a discussion over the designs of the phones where chassis 1 is a “big touch screen” phone having 1GHz processor with dedicated graphics processor.
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Serbia’s bid to become EU candidate will not be on the agenda of the February meeting of the union, VeÄernje Novosti daily writes. The Belgrade newspaper explains that the application is currently with the European Council, until the ministers ask the European Commission to produce its opinion.
Serbia will be informed about the EU member states attitude toward its candidacy bid and the next steps that are to be taken, the Spanish ambassador says. “We have started consultations with EU member states on Serbia’s demand and on January 26, EU is to meet with Serbia at the ministerial level and we believe that Serbia will be given a clear insight into our position and which are further steps in view of Serbia’s EU candidacy application,†Inigo de Palacio Espana Tanjug news agency.
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US Army Major Nidal Hasan, who is accused of killing 13 people earlier this month at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas, intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric just months before the shootings and began discussing with him surreptitious financial transfers, The
