Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Ambassador to Spain Željana Zovko has received a threatening letter, saying she is a “Croatian terrorist†and that she will “be blown upâ€.
Names of certain Mohamed Nezirović and Faik Dizdarević are mentioned in the letter, among other things.
Russia does not see a role for itself in the negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo’s Albanians, says Ambassador Aleksandr Konuzin. At the same time, the Russian diplomat said that he was not optimistic about the outcome of the announced talks.
Outgoing Bulgarian Ambassador to Belgrade Georgi Dimitrov stated that he has worked for the intelligence service, but that he was not a spy.
Dimitrov made the statement in an interview with the German Radio Deutsche Welle.
The State Department said the post of U.S. envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan will be continued following the death of Richard Holbrooke, VOA reports.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hailed Holbrooke as an indispensable colleague.
Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, is in critical condition after undergoing surgery at a Washington hospital.
Doctors operated on Holbrooke Saturday to fix a tear in his aorta, a key heart artery. U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley says the 69-year-old diplomat has been joined by his family.
US President Barack Obama cannot award the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council to India, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN Abdullah Hussain Haroon has said. Haroon said that voting was necessary for this purpose, and India could not become a member until all the permanent members of the council approved it, the Daily [...]
America’s special representative for Afghanistan is implementing wrong, “Bosnian” methods in Afghanistan, says a former UN envoy. Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide, who served as special UN envoy in Kabul until March 2010, told Belgrade’s Danas newspaper that he unsuccessfully tried to spur Washington to sack Holbrooke.
Serbian Patriarch Irinej conferred in Belgrade Patriarchate on Tuesday with Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Konuzin. The reason for the meeting is reported to have been the visit of the recently defrocked bishop Artemije to the Russian embassy in Belgrade.
US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, has said that the sources of funding for terrorists and militants come from outside Pakistan and through extortion of NATO supply convoys. “Funding of terrorism is a serious issue and they are being addressing matter,†the Daily Times quoted Holbrooke, who is currently in Islamabad to [...]
Turkey’s ambassador to Austria has been summoned to the foreign ministry in Vienna for criticizing attitudes towards immigrants.
Kadri Ecved Tezcan said that Turks were quite happy in Austria but did not wish to be treated “like a virus”.
British Ambassador to Serbia Stephen Wordsworth says Serbs in Kosovo should take part in the forthcoming elections there. It is “the parliament in PriÅ¡tina takes decisions which concern their lives”, he told B92, and added that “this would not mean recognizing Kosovo’s independence, that is not an issue for individual persons but for states”.
Spanish Ambassador Inigo de Palacio Espana stated on Monday that no topic should be avoided during the planned Belgrade-Priština dialogue. Speaking in Belgrade, the top Spanish diplomat in Serbia also stated that the talks should start soon and that they should be well prepared.
Frustration is growing in Kosovo and unless EULEX implements laws, there could be violence, says Janina Hrebickova, appointed as Czech ambassador in Kosovo. She told Prague daily Pravo that violence could break out unless EULEX arrested Serb and other criminals.
U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo Christopher Dell said the coming negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo will include the whole Kosovo. The talks should not be focused just on the predominantly Serb populated northern part.
The chief U.S. negotiator for talks to persuade North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons is in Beijing. China, which hosts the six-party talks, has joined North Korea in calling for a speedy resumption of the stalled dialogue.
It would be best for Serbia to withdraw its resolution submitted to the UN General Assembly, says British Ambassador in Belgrade Stephen Wordsworth.
He also spoke in favor of starting talks on a new draft, said reports.
The sovereignty and territorial integrity of international borders should be fully respected by all states, says India’s ambassador to Serbia. The Kosovo issue should be resolved through peaceful means, Ambassador Nengcha Lhouvum Mukhopadhaya said in an interview for Tanjug on the eve of India’s Independence Day, August 15.
Pakistan’s government has summoned Britain’s envoy in Islamabad over recent remarks by UK Prime Minister David Cameron, the Foreign Office says.
Cameron angered Pakistan last week when he suggested it was looking both ways on Islamist violence and promoting the export of terror.
Greece has introduced an initiative to “bring Belgrade and PriÅ¡tina back to dialog”, Greek Ambassador to Serbia Demosthenes Stoides said. He said that acting Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas would be visiting Belgrade and PriÅ¡tina next week. That trip was announced after the EU Council of Ministers meeting was held in Brussels on Monday.
U.S. envoy denies north comments
The ambassador of the United States to PriÅ¡tina has denied that he said Hashim Thaci was “prepared to offer to the north of Kosovo a kind of autonomy”.
According to the Albanian language media reports in Priština earlier today, Christopher Dell said this could be modeled after autonomies implemented in regions of Belgium, Austria and other Western European countries.