By EWB24.07.2020 https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2020/07/24/thaci-and-hoti-kosovo-will-not-allow-reducing-dialogue-to-a-technical-process/   PRISTINA – Kosovo will not allow the Dialogue to be reduced to a technical process, said President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi after the meeting with Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti, N1 reported.

Author: N1 Sarajevo Izvor: TANJUG / ZORAN ZESTIC , 23.07.2020.   http://ba.n1info.com/English/NEWS/a457586/Vucic-Status-of-Bosnia-s-RS-region-should-not-be-linked-to-Kosovo-issue.html Vucic and Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic met with the Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency, Milorad Dodik, the President of Bosnia’s Serb-majority

  Author: N1 Sarajevo 23.07.2020. http://ba.n1info.com/English/NEWS/a450214/Embassies-respond-to-Dodik-s-idea-of-linking-Republika-Srpska-with-Kosovo-issue.html Territorial integrity and sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina are guaranteed by the Dayton Peace Agreement, while the existence of the country's two entities is entirely dependant on the existence

  Author: N1 Sarajevo, 23.07.2020.   http://rs.n1info.com/English/NEWS/a622712/Dodik-asks-Vucic-to-negotiate-status-of-Kosovo-and-Bosnia-s-RS-region-as-package.html   When negotiating the status of Kosovo, Serbia should make it clear that the issue can not be discussed without also discussing the status of Bosnia’s Serb-majority region,

  Source: B92 Thursday, July 23, 2020 https://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2020&mm=07&dd=23&nav_id=108989 When I spoke about the demarcation between Serbs and Albanians, I think it was a very rational approach, President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic said. "However, the whole world

  By EWB, 23.07.2020 https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2020/07/23/bilateral-meetings-between-belgrade-and-pristina-with-lajcak-held-in-brussels/   BRUSSELS – Bilateral meetings of the EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue Miroslav Lajčák with the delegations of Serbia and Kosovo were held separately in Brussels today, they

By David L. Phillips , New York, 23. Jul, 2020 https://euobserver.com/opinion/148995 The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue recently resumed after a hiatus of 20 months. Successful negotiations must be informed by knowing the interests of both sides as

BETA, 22.07.2020 https://beta.rs/vesti/politika-vesti-srbija/130790-filips-eu-treba-da-ogranici-dijalog-srbije-i-kosova-na-godinu-dana Američki profesor Dejvid Filips, bivši savetnik Stejt departmenta, izjavio je da bi Evropska unija trebalo da postavi rok za okončanje dijaloga Beograda i Prištine i da Srbija na kraju tog procesa treba

By EWB, 21.07.2020 https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2020/07/21/skender-hyseni-appointed-as-kosovo-state-coordinator-on-dialogue/ PRISTINA – Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti has appointed Skender Hyseni as State Coordinator on Dialogue, the Prime Minister’s Office has announced, Gazeta Express reports. “Based on the Kosovo Government’s Platform

By EWB20.07.2020 https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2020/07/20/kosovo-leaders-speak-out-against-technical-dialogue-stress-the-need-for-a-political-agreement/ PRISTINA – Prime Minister of Kosovo Avdullah Hoti has claimed that a meeting in Brussels on Thursday will see the beginning of the drafting of a “final agreement” between Kosovo and Serbia,

By EWB, 17.07.2020 https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2020/07/17/vucic-and-hoti-talks-between-belgrade-and-pristina-will-continue-next-week-at-the-expert-level/ BRUSSELS – President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti agreed that talks between Belgrade and Pristina will continue next week at the expert level, while the next

  Source: B92, Tanjug Thursday, July 16, 2020 | Ahttps://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2020&mm=07&dd=16&nav_id=108941 President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, said that he had meetings in Brussels with Pristina about missing persons, internally displaced persons, and the economy. As he stated,

Alasdair Lane Senior Contributor 16/07/2020 https://www.forbes.com/sites/alasdairlane/2020/07/16/serbia-kosovo-talks-resume-as-europe-replaces-america-as-peacemaker/#37bc06f378f1 Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. There are hopes today that one of Europe’s most intractable territorial disputes might edge closer to resolution. The leaders of Kosovo

  EURACTIV.com with AFP 16-07-2020 https://www.euractiv.com/section/enlargement/news/serbia-and-kosovo-to-resume-rocky-road-towards-an-accord/ Former war foes Serbia and Kosovo will restart talks in Brussels on Thursday (16 July) to normalise their strained relationship after a long stalemate, though the road to settling

Visar Xhambazi and Leon Hartwell, Pristina, BIRN, July 16, 2020 https://balkaninsight.com/2020/07/16/kosovos-disunited-negotiators-cant-compete-with-monolithic-serbia/ US and EU-mediated normalization talks are unlikely to end fruitfully while Serbia’s negotiating team is monolithic and Kosovo’s team is divided. White House discussions

  Ivan Angelovski, BIRN, July 15, 2020 https://balkaninsight.com/2020/07/15/trump-ex-adviser-bolton-laments-lost-opportunity-on-kosovo/ Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser, John Bolton, told BIRN that Serbia and Kosovo may have retreated from a point where a deal to settle relations was

KosovaPress, 15.07.2020. https://kosovapress.com/en/von-cramon-speaks-exclusively-for-kosovapress-grenell-wanted-to-circumvent-the-eu-and-the-kurti-government-for-dialogue/ The European Parliament’s Rapporteur for Kosovo, Viola von Cramon, says that she has been critical of Ambassador Grenell’s approach to his efforts to resume the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, saying that the US official wanted

  Ivan Angelovski, BIRN, July 15, 2020 https://balkaninsight.com/2020/07/15/trump-ex-adviser-bolton-laments-lost-opportunity-on-kosovo/ Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser, John Bolton, told BIRN that Serbia and Kosovo may have retreated from a point where a deal to settle relations was

by Dimitar Bechev, 14 Jul 2020 https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/europe-achieve-serbia-kosovo-deal-200713154245236.html After Trump's failure to tackle the Serbia-Kosovo issue, the EU has taken back the lead. But it cannot do it alone. It would not be a stretch to

  Source: B92, RTS Tuesday, July 14, 2020 https://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2020&mm=07&dd=14&nav_id=108920 On Monday, the President of the Interim Pristina institutions, Hashim Thaci, was questioned for six hours in the Hague Specialized Prosecutor's Office. It remains unknown what questions

    Dean B. Pineles, Washington DC, July 14, 2020 https://balkaninsight.com/2020/07/14/were-prosecutors-right-to-publicise-charges-against-kosovos-thaci/ The announcement that war crimes charges had been filed against Hashim Thaci and Kadri Veseli caused a political storm, but questions persist about whether

  BIRN, July 13, 2020 https://balkaninsight.com/2020/07/13/kosovo-serbia-deal-must-not-lead-to-impunity-for-war-crimes-us-ex-ambassador/ Any peace agreement concluded between Kosovo and Serbia should not undermine efforts to hold wrongdoers accountable for atrocities during the 1998-99 conflict, said ex-prosecutor Clint Williamson, a former US

  EURACTIV.com with AFP 13-07-2020 https://www.euractiv.com/section/enlargement/news/serbia-kosovo-talks-back-on-track-after-video-meet/ The EU said Sunday (12 June) that long-stalled talks between Serbia and Kosovo were “back on track” after a video meeting between the two leaders. Kosovo’s Prime Minister Avdullah

Tanjug, 12.07.2020. https://www.blic.rs/vesti/svet/sef-diplomatije-eu-sporazum-je-kljucan-za-bolju-buducnost-naroda-kosova-i-srbije-ali/13mjsf4 Dijalog Beograda i Prištine na visokom političkom nivou nastavljen je nakon 20 meseci pauze video-konfrencijom u kojoj učestvuju predsednik Srbije Aleksandar Vućić, kosovski premijer Avdulah Hoti, šef diplomatije EU Žosep Borel i

  Tanjug , 12.07.2020. https://www.blic.rs/vesti/politika/hoti-pristina-u-dijalogu-radi-medusobnog-priznanja/d9ypyxc Premijer privremenih prištinskih institucija Avdulah Hoti kaže da dijalog sa Beogradom nema alternativu, ali ističe da u taj proces Priština ulazi samo radi međusobnog priznavanja i pune normalizacije odnosa, rekao