Section: B92 (Serbia)
“Serbia ready to be honest broker,” FM tells OSCE
OSCE Chairperson and Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on Thursday urged all sides in the Ukrainian conflict to fully adhere to the Minsk agreements.Addressing the opening of 14th Winter Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, he noted that it was “an opportunity to deescalate the conflict and put an end to civilian...
Dacic “can’t defend Serbia’s integrity less than Ukraine’s”
Ivica Dacic has asked Albania to “concern itself with issues related to OSCE principles and not worry about Belgrade-Pristina talks.”The Serbian foreign minister spoke in Vienna on Thursday in his role as OSCE chairperson, during the winter session of the organization’s parliamentary assembly. …read more...
OSCE “welcomes adoption of resolution on Ukraine”
OSCE chairperson and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has welcomed the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2202 on Ukraine, the OSCE said.Dacic at the same time “stressed the need for full and unconditional compliance by all signatories of the Minsk Document with the comprehensive ceasefire agreed in Minsk on February 12.”...
Kiev wants international peacekeepers
Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin says Petro Poroshenko wants to undermine the Minsk agreement with his demand for international peacekepers.”If some other schemes are proposed (apart from the Minsk agreements), it raises the question of whether the Minsk agreements are going to be adhered to or not,” Churkin said, according...
Serbian FM, in his OSCE role, “calls for restraint”
Ivica Dacic has “strongly urged all sides to refrain from any action that might endanger the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine that came into effect on February 15.”Serbia’s foreign minister made the statement in his capacity as chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). …read more...
Ukraine: Fighting continues in Debaltsevo
The Ukrainian army has announced that during the night “not a single shot was fired” in the territory of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Lugansk.The Russian media are reporting that this means one of the key points of the Minsk 2 agreement – the withdrawal of heavy artillery from the east of the country –...
Russia “doing everything to prevent European war”
Russia is “doing everything to prevent a European war,” Russian Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Konstantin Kosachev has said.”Our contribution to the Minsk Agreement and our work with the rebels in the southeast of Ukraine is a clear effort to prevent a war,” Kosachev, who was in Serbia for the...
Russia will accept “any agreement” between warring sides
Konstantin Kosachev says Russia will accept any agreement between Kiev and the regions of Lugansk and Donetsk that would be in the interest of all sides.The chair of the the Russian Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs made the statement in Belgrade, where he on Sunday took part in Serbian State Day ceremonies as head of a delegation...
“Deep distrust between West and Russia”
There is deep distrust between the West and Russia and it will not disappear quickly, a panel discussion in Belgrade has heard.Participants in the gathering, organized by the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), also said that the responsibility for the current situation in Ukraine lies on “both...
U.S. senator: Ceasefire won’t last one week
U.S. Senator John McCain has said that the Ukraine ceasefire agreement from Minsk was “unenforceable and will not last a week.” “It sounds to me like it’s unenforceable. It’s a bandaid and my predictions to you, it will not last a week,” McCain said. …read more Source:...
