OSCE mission

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with OSCE Mission head Jan Braathu and US Ambassador to Belgrade Christopher Hill on Monday to discuss government measures aimed at improving the position of national minorities.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Monday the removal of a plaque commemorating fallen Serbian soldiers from the Balkan Wars and WWI in the military section of the Serbian Orthodox cemetery in Pristina was an attempt of obliterating all traces of the existence of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija and rewriting history in a brutal manner.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with the head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Jan Braathu in the Serbian government building on Wednesday to discuss the adoption of a media strategy.

Brnabic thanked Braathu for the years-long OSCE support and discussions about adopting the strategy.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic demanded on Monday an urgent reaction by the international community and a release of two peaceful Serb protesters kidnapped by Pristina's police in Zvecan a week ago.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and North Macedonia FM Bujar Osmani on Thursday.

Brnabic noted that the cooperation maintained by her government and all state institutions with the OSCE Mission to Serbia was very good.

The parties also noted the significance of the Open Balkan initiative and its benefits for all citizens.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with the head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Jan Braathu in Belgrade on Wednesday to discuss Serbia's progress in protection of national minority rights and further strengthening of judicial independence.

The European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the OSCE Mission and the United Nations have told the state authorities that they must make the process more transparent, while domestic organisations have warned of possible politicisation of the process.

He said in a statement that he felt the need to make public some information important for the discussion and public debate on the amendments to the law, which have been problematized in recent days through various texts and interviews.
On that occasion, we are transmitting his statement in its entirety:

Police confirmed on Thursday evening that a group of minors from the western town of Peja/Pec has been identified and interviewed for stoning a Serb woman's house in the town centre.

The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina said in an information sheet published on Tuesday that only 18 war crimes cases were completed last year, compared to a total of 49 in 2020.

It also said that at the end of 2020, "there remained a backlog of 571 unresolved cases involving 4,498 suspects".