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Love Hurts

05 February 2010 |

Simon Cottrell It's a shame that the internet is a virtual medium, because there are a lot of people out there that I'd like to express my deep feelings of friendship to, and having spent the last two years here in Serbia, I'd like to do it in a truly Serbian way.


Feith: 'New Beginning' for Mitrovica
05 February 2010 | Lawrence Marzouk

The International Civilian Representative in Kosovo, Pieter Feith, has said the appointment of a team to create a new Serb-majority municipality in the divided city of Mitrovica could herald a 'new beginning'.

Georgieva, Ciolos Approved with New Commission
09 February 2010 |

The European Parliament has approved the new European Commission at its session in Strasbourg. Kristalina Georgieva and Dacian Ciolos are the new commissioners from Bulgaria and Romania, respectively.

Koricanske stijene: Awareness of Security
09 February 2010 |

A member of the Intelligence-Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina says he spoke to Milorad Skrbic while investigating the murder at Koricanske stijene and "determined that he did not have any operational data about this event".



Montenegro Minister Sees Closer Serbia Ties

Podgorica | 10 November 2009 | Bojana Barlovac
 
Svetozar Marovic (archive)
Svetozar Marovic (archive)
Montenegro's Deputy Prime Minister Svetozar Marovic said that Serbia should be his country's closest ally in the region.

In an interview with Montenegrin daily Pobjeda, Marovic said that he expects Serbia propbably has the same feeling towards relations with Montenegro.

"The real interest of Montenegro is to have the best relations with Serbia and that Serbia and Montenegro need to seriously work on the development of mutual relations," the daily quoted the minister as saying.

He added that friendship and closeness between the two countries must overcome personal vanity, misunderstandings and differences, which have always existed in their mutual relations.

He rebuffed allegations against the country’s Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, that accuse him if being involved in cigarette smuggling, saying such allegations are an indication of the weakness of the Montenegrin authorities but to the country's 'weak' opposition.

"All this is less important than the truth, and it is difficult to deceive the public," Marovic pointed out.

Commenting on the impact of the canonically unrecognised Montenegrin Orthodox Church in overall relations in the Montenegrin society, Marovic said that freedom of religion is a basic right in every democratic society, but that the church in Montenegro must stand above the national and political divisions by reconciling all Orthodox Christians.



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Ties with Montenegro
2009-11-10 20:28:51
Are you kidding me? You should've given that speech to yourselves first. You are the ones who showed unfriendly gesture towards Serbia by recognising Kosovo and now you say that Serbia's cloest ally should be you? Why? What do you bring to this alliance? Certainly not friendship and respect.

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