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Lavrov's visit canceled? Russia's MFA: "Our diplomacy has not mastered teleportation"
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to Serbia has been cancelled after countries around Serbia closed their airspace to his aircraft, a senior foreign ministry source told the Interfax news agency on Sunday.
"Those reports are accurate," a high-ranking source in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Interfax today.
Vučić about Lavrov's arrival: It's possible that everything'll be fine, it may not be
The tour started at 3 p.m., and the Ukrainian ambassador Volodymyr Tolkach accompanies the president.
Upon his arrival, the President was greeted with applause, and at the very beginning of the tour, he was interested which cities the refugees came from, as well as whether the children started going to school.
Kosovo Arrests Serb on War Crime Charges
Kosovo Police announced on Friday that a Serb has been arrested near the western town of Istog/Istok for allegedly committing a war crime against the civilian population.
"After an investigative work from the War Crimes Investigative Unit, police identified and arrested a Serb for war crimes against civilian population in Kosovo during 1998-1999," a police statement said.
Kosovo police banned liturgy; Serbia's reaction: "It is high time they reacted"
The liturgy was supposed to be held on the occasion of Savior's Day.
"This morning around half past five, the clergy from the church of St. Nicholas started to serve the holy liturgy on the occasion of Savior's Day in the Church of Christ the Savior in Pristina, however, after the policeman identified us, he forbade us to unlock the church," says Father Stanisa.
Kosovo Seeks Satellite Images of Suspected War Grave in Serbia
The Kosovo government told BIRN that more satellite images are needed of the Stavalj mine near Sjenica in south-west Serbia, where Kosovo Albanian victims of the Kosovo war are suspected to have been buried, in order to reach a definitive conclusion about whether excavation work at the site should continue or stop.