Events

Blinken has just landed in Chisinau for a meeting with President @sandumaiamd Joint presser to follow. He is expected to announce a ‘robust’ support package for Moldova, as senior officials put it

The NATO Parliamentary Assembly has overwhelmingly voted to upgrade the Kosovo Assembly to associate member, the highest status in the PA until NATO membership.There was only one vote against, with 14 abstentions. The NATO PA has 281 envoys from 32 member states

State Department: Yesterday, Mr. Dodik announced that the Republika Srpska government took a formal decision to propose RS “disassociation” from Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is RS secession by another name, and it is dangerous, irresponsible, anti-Dayton, and puts the territorial integrity, sovereignty, and multiethnic character of BiH at risk. These are core U.S. interests. The United States will defend and protect them by, among other things, holding those who put them at risk accountable for their actions.

Kurti on arming Serbia: The risk of a new war is real; Belgrade: Absurd and malicious claims

Bosnia Foreign Ministry will send protest notes to countries that voted against the Resolution on Srebrenica genocide

The UN General Assembly in New York adopted the resolution on Srebrenica with 84 "yes" votes. Nineteen states were against, and 68 abstained

Vučić: Highly politicized resolution on Srebrenica, I call on all countries not to vote

The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik announced today in Bratunac that an agreement on peaceful demarcation will be proposed in the next 30 days. "We are starting today with a formal decision to request a peaceful demarcation. We will propose to first clarify the political competences related to the entities, and to preserve and leave the current model of the functioning of the economy and within a few years to adapt it to the model of peaceful demarcation", said Dodik. He pointed out that no one should touch anyone, that the Serbian people simply cannot live in this BiH anymore.

President of Srpska @MiloradDodik and Prime Minister Radovan Višković met today with the head of Srebrenica, Mladen Grujičić. After the meeting, President Dodik and Prime Minister Višković spoke with Serbian councilors in the Assembly of Srebrenica and businessmen from this town.

Special units of the MUP of the RS are deployed near the High School Center in Stebrenica (video: @halilovic_sa).

Moldova is signing a security agreement with the EU today, involving information exchange, cyber defence, taking part in military acquisitions and EU military exercises

The EU is planning to start formal accession talks for Moldova and Ukraine on 25 June

Russia is jamming the GPS systems in Romania in the regions neighboring the Black Sea

Dodik: RS does not want escalation and violence, but its decisions will make Bosniaks aware

Serbia’s Kosovo office head meets with Quint ambassadors, EU delegation head

The first aid ship to use the new US military dock in Gaza, now appears to be en route, having left Cyprus in the early hours

KP: This morning, during joint patrols by Kosovo Police and KFOR in Miokovice in northern Kosovo, a person blocked the road and attacked them with glass bottles. The suspect fled but was later arrested in his house, where military fatigues with Serbian insignia were found

Israeli security forces arrest the Greek consul's guard from inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower strike group gets first port call in months after battling Houthis. “During their time in Souda Bay, Sailors from the ships experienced Greek culture, explored the region, enjoyed local cuisine,” Navy says

In Serbia, Aleksandar Vulin, who served as defense minister and intelligence chief and is sanctioned by the US for helping Russia’s activities in the Balkans, will serve as a deputy to Prime Minister Milos Vucevic

A harsh message from the Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Vučić: You deserve contempt, we will demand payment of war reparations

Serbia FM announces: UN General Assembly to hold urgent session on Bosnia at Russia's request on April 30; US-sanctioned Serb Presidency member asked to address event via video link

Greece will not send air defence systems to Ukraine despite European pressure. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece will not send Patriots and S-300s because it needs them for its own deterrence

A Serbian court sentenced seven former Yugoslav Army soldiers to a total of 56 years in prison for committing war crimes during attacks on Kosovo villages in 1999 that left 118 ethnic Albanians dead

The criminal case against Evgenia Gutsul and the ex-secretary of the former Shor party has been sent to court - Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office of Moldova

Macron recalled to Kurti 'France's unwavering support for the independence and European integration of Kosovo'. He underlined 'the importance that France attaches, in context of application to @coe to rapid and irreversible progress in creating Assoc of Serbian Municipalities'

Bosnian Serb secessionist Dodik again in Russia amid his renewed threats to “withdraw” from BiH state institutions. Says @euforbih will only assist in separation because they will not allow reaction from state security elements, will not protect BiH territorial integrity

The European Parliament has adopted visa-free travel for Kosovo citizens holding parallel Serbian passports. To travel from Kosovo's airport they will still need Kosovo passports, as the parallel Serbian passports issued by the "Serbian Coordination Directorate" are illegal in Kosovo

Vučević: Serbia strives for a future without wars

President Aleksandar Vucic @avucic stated that he believes that the process of dialogue with Pristina will continue, and reiterated that Serbia is on the European path and that he believes that in the previous period it achieved good results in terms of growth rate and standard of living