Balkan News

A Delegation of US Congress is set to meet Serbia’s President Boris Tadic and Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic on Tuesday. The delegation is led by US Rep William Delahunt, who is also a member of the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Croatian president Ivo Josipovic have given his support to setting up a truth commission aimed at establishing facts about war crimes committed in Yugoslavia’s succeeding countries in the 1990s.

Albanians will find out whether they will be able travel to most EU countries without visas this autumn, Albanian Interior Minister Lulzim Basha said. On Sunday (August 29th), he explained that his European counterparts

Kosovo: The interior ministry confirmed on Saturday (August 28th) that no investigations are under way regarding the publication of the so-called Statement for Independence

Slovenian President Danilo Turk thinks that the Balkans should no longer be the highest priority of EU’s foreign policy. He also criticized the countries of the region which aim to join the EU. Turk said that if there were delays in the accession negotiations “most criticism should be directed at …

Belgrade Mufti Muhamed Jusufspahić has called on a counter-rally in response to the one scheduled by a rival Islamic organization. The Islamic Community in Serbia leader Muamer Zukorlić called the original gathering. Jusufspahić said that his Islamic Community of Serbia has scheduled a counter-rally so that its voice can be …

The EU should do everything possible to ensure the integration of the countries from the Western Balkans and to end divisions in the region, stressed Bulgarian foreign minister Nikolay Mladenov at the traditional Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia.

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague will be in Belgrade on Tuesday to meet with senior Serbian officials. Political and economic analyst Dragomir Janković told B92 that Hague is not coming to Belgrade to negotiate changes to Serbia’s Kosovo resolution submitted to the UN General Assembly, however.

Serbia is ready to talk to Western countries, EU members in particular, to find compromise regarding its draft resolution on Kosovo submitted to the UN, President Boris Tadic said on Saturday (August 28th). The resolution, filed in late July, was in response to an opinion by the International Court of …

BiH The Institute for Missing Persons said on Friday (August 27th) its personnel have exhumed the remains of 54 Muslim civilians killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Spokeswoman Lejla Cengic said the skeletal remains were in three mass graves at a dump site near Srebrenica, and that five more mass …