Section: B92 (Serbia)
“Enough about Crimea – let’s consider Kosovo, Libya, Iraq”
Russia’s partners in the West should pay attention to NATO’s 1999 bombing of Serbia, to Kosovo, and the breakup of Libya, “and not just to Crimea.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made this statement on Tuesday, TASS reported. …read more Source:...
Putin reveals how Crimea was “returned to Russia”
Russia’s Rossiya-1 broadcaster has announced it will soon air a documentary called “Crimea. Homeland-bound.”The television interviewed President Vladimir Putin, who revealed some details about the operation that returned the peninsula to Russia, Russian news agencies are reporting. …read more Source:...
Belgrade “respects Ukraine’s territorial integrity”
Minister without portfolio for EU Integrations Jadranka Joksimovic said on Friday that Serbia “respects the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.”She made the comment as she met with Ukrainian Charge d’Affaires in Belgrade Yevgeniia Filipenko, “to discuss Serbia’s European integrations.” …read...
EU foreign policy chief against sending weapons to Ukraine
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Friday spoke against “a bipartisan call in the U.S. to provide lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine.”AP reported that “House Speaker John Boehner and a group of top Democrats and Republicans wrote to President Obama calling for deliveries but so far have found few backers in the 28...
OSCE chairman offers condolences over miners’ deaths
Ivica Dacic expressed deepest condolences on Thursday over the tragic loss of human lives in the accident that occurred in the Zasyadko Mine in eastern Ukraine.Dacic is OSCE’s chairman-in-office and Serbian foreign minister. …read more Source:...
“Give Russia guarantees Ukraine won’t join NATO”
Former U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski has called for the arming of Ukraine “with defensive weapons.”He at the same time warned that Russia must be given guarantees that “a free, democratic Ukraine” will not seek to join NATO. …read more Source:...
Russia: Future gas route “must go via Serbia”
Russia thinks that a future route for supply of Europe with natural gas “must go via Serbia,” Ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin has said.This will happen when Moscow, in four years’ time, abandons transits through Ukraine and turns to Turkey, and Nord Stream. …read more Source:...
OSCE media rep “surprised by Russian criticism”
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic says she is surprised by Russian FM Sergei Lavrov’s doubts about the organization’s impartiality. The Russian website Sputnik noted that earlier on Monday, Lavrov “expressed his concern whether the OSCE was unbiased, saying that Mijatovic’s description of...
Lavrov questions impartiality of OSCE regarding media
The international community should pay special attention to media freedom in Ukraine, while the OSCE has a biased attitude about it, Sergei Lavrov has said.”We are faced with an organized attack on freedom of speech and an attempt to ban the profession of journalism,” the Russian foreign minister stated addressing the 28th session of...
Russia urges Balkan countries “to quickly decide”
Balkan countries should decide in the next few months on how to get their gas once the agreement on transport of Russian gas via Ukraine expires in four years.This is what Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin told a conference in Belgrade on Monday. …read more Source:...
