Kosovo

"Is this a democratic way to solve a problem?" Russia's Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov remarked on the name deal between Greece and North Macedonia during an interview with Kathimerini on the sidelines of the Delphi Economic Forum earlier this month.

"We are there to protect all people including the Serb community," Stoltenberg said in an interview with TV Prva, and stressed that NATO has no plans to reduce the presence of its troops in Kosovo.

Vucic said NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia was a difficult and terrible time for the country, while a symbol of everything that NATO called collateral damage - was the suffering of children.
Asked about his memories of that time, the president told reporters in Belgrade:

The head of Serbian diplomacy finds it incomprehensible that no embassies here, and the EU, made a statement about these events. (Later in the day on Monday an EU spokesperson did react to the incident at public broadcaster RTS on Saturday and at the protest in front of the Presidency on Sunday).

Arreaza is on a bilateral visit to Serbia, where we was also received by a number of cabinet ministers, including Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin.

Vucic was speaking on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the pogrom against Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, the Serbian government's website said.

Kosovo's incoherent and badly thought-out foreign policy initiatives are testing the patience of its most important partners, experts warn.

And not everybody wants to find a solution for Kosovo and Metohija, he remarked on Friday in Belgrade.

David is on an official visit to Serbia, where he was also received by President Aleksandar Vucic, and where he met and later held a joint press conference with his Serbian counterpart, Ivica Dacic.

As Macedonians celebrate Trimery, an Orthodox Christian holiday marking the beginning of Lent, members of a dance group performs at the closing of the Strumica carnival in its namesake town in southeastern North Macedonia on March 9. Photo: EPA/Georgi Licovski.