Section: B92 (Serbia)
NATO can deploy troops “wherever it wants”
NATO can deploy its forces wherever it wants, new NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said.According to a Reuters report, with the statement he “apparently called into question post-Cold War agreements that have been shaken by Russia’s actions in Crimea and Ukraine.” …read more Source:...
DS and NS: Is the timing right to host Putin?
DS and NS Members of Parliament assessed that there is no doubt if Serbia should host such a “great leader” as Vladimir Putin, but questioned the timing of it. The New Party (NS) President, Zoran Zivkovic, said that the ” war between Russia and Ukraine is on”, and therefore this is not the most favorable moment for...
Hahn: Serbia needs to consider sanctions against Russia
Johannes Hahn says that Serbia should carefully consider its decision not to support EU sanctions against Russia if Belgrade hopes to join the European Union.Johannes Hahn, the EU’s Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations Commissioner-designate, says that Serbia should carefully consider its decision not to support EU sanctions against...
EP wants South Stream scrapped
The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday passed a resolution urging for stepping up sanctions against Russia and canceling contracts to build South Stream.The resolution, passed with votes in favor from 77 percent of the total number of MEPs, expresses “strong support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine” and seeks...
Kiev says Russia has “4,000 soldiers” at border
The Ukrainian government has announced that Russia amassed about 4,000 troops stationed in Crimea, on the border with Ukraine.”According to our information, almost all military units of the Russian Federation stationed in the north of occupied Crimea… have been transferred to the administrative border with Ukraine, as well as...
Slovakia: All of EU should share burden of sanctions
Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak says the burden of EU sanctions against Russia should be born “solidarily” by the entire organization.”It is a conflict of two friendly countries to us. It would be a mistake to view it through the prism of who’s with Putin, and who with Poroshenko. I want Ukrainians to know the...
Serbia supports peaceful solution in Ukraine
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić conferred on Wednesday in Belgrade with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Aleksei Meshkov.During the meeting Vučić stated that Serbia will continue to support the search for a peaceful solution to the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Nationalists protest in Kiev
The nationalist Right Sector party staged a protest on Wednesday in front of the presidency building. They are opposed to a law on special status of parts of eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
President, Russian official on “cooperation and sanctions”
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić met with Russia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aleksei Meshkov in Belgrade on TuNikolić said during the meeting that Serbia’s principled position was to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine, but that the country would not participate in any sanctions against Russia. …read more...
Kiev could offer “special status to some areas”
Ukrainian President of Petro Poroshenko has sent to parliamentary procedure a bill on granting some areas in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions “special status.”The AFP agency said on Tuesday the proposal was part of a peace plan signed with the pro-Russian rebels on September 5, seeking to end five months of bloody conflict. …read...
