News archive of September 2023

ROME - Italian FM Antonio Tajani said on Monday he had spoken with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Pristina's PM Albin Kurti, adding that Kfor presence at administrative crossings between Kosovo-Metohija and central Serbia would be boosted.

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Bulgarian ambassador Atanas Krastin today to express to him "a firm protest in connection with the forced removal from Bulgaria under a fabricated pretext, in a blasphemous and insulting manner" of Nikolay Zmeev (Archimandrite Vasian), a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Sofia.

PRISTINA - Pristina's special prosecutor Naim Abazi said the body of another person involved in Sunday's clashes in the Banjska village in the north of Kosovo-Metohija had been found on Monday.

In a statement to Pristina-based Koha paper, Abazi said the body belonged to one of the "attackers" on the so-called Kosovo Police.

BELGRADE - The Partner 2023 international arms fair opened in Belgrade on Monday, featuring 154 exhibitors from around the world.

"I believe that, in the days to come, we will be able to announce major contracts for our country and Serbia's defence industry," Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said at the opening of the fair.

Patriarch Neophyte has appointed priests from Sofia who will take over the usual services in the Church of St. Nicholas the Miracle-Maker, known as the Russian Church. This was announced by the Holy Synod.

BELGRADE- Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko on Monday to inform him of brutal ethnic cleansing organised in Kosovo-Metohija by Pristina's PM Albin Kurti with support from a part of the international community.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet with the ambassadors of Quint states - the US, the UK, France, Italy and Germany - and the head of the EU Delegation to Belgrade on Tuesday morning.

The meeting in the building of the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic is scheduled for 8.30 am, the presidential press office has announced in a statement.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said on Monday Serbia's position was that Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was exclusively to blame for all developments in Kosovo-Metohija.

At the opening of the Partner 2023 international arms fair, Vucevic said Serbia was facing major challenges.

BELGRADE - The Post of Serbia said on Monday its post office in Banjska, a village in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, had halted operations after being stormed by ethnic Albanian terrorists last night and sustaining extensive material damage in the incident.

In a statement, the company said the terrorists had damaged its property and stolen equipment from the post office.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Monday Serbia should beware any provocations in the wake of clashes in which three Serbs and one officer of the so-called Kosovo Police were killed in the north of Kosovo-Metohija early on Sunday.