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Milovan Drecun said on Tuesday that Belgrade “could be forced to reconsider” its call to the Kosovo Serbs to vote in the upcoming elections in the province. This is because “Priština is refusing to accept voter applications submitted by over 30,000 internally displaced persons,” the chairman

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić will address the regular session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which begins on Monday in Strasbourg.

NATO chief Fogh Rasmussen gave assurances to President Tomislav Nikolić on Thursday that Kosovo security forces would not grow into an army. “Serbia is a key factor of peace and stability in the region,” Rasmussen said during talks with Nikolić on the sidelines of the session of the United Nations …

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić addressed the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday to say that Serbia has neither de jure nor de facto “recognized Kosovo.” The EU-mediated agreement reached with Priština in April “in no way means that Belgrade intends to accept Kosovo’s accession to the UN and …

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in New York, where they are attending the UN Nations General Assembly. Mrkić said that he and Lavrov spoke about progress in the preparations for the upcoming visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Serbia.

France’s Interior Minister Manuel Valls expressed some reservations about Bulgaria and Romania’s accession in the Schengen area as of January 1, 2014.

Serbian  President Tomislav Nikolić said after a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that he informed the UN chief about “all the problems in Kosovo.” These range “from the judiciary to the local elections,” the Serbian president stated.

The war crimes prosecutor’s offices of Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina agreed in Sarajevo on mutual help and concrete cooperation in a number of war crime cases. The meeting between the delegations of the two prosecutions headed by chief prosecutors Vladimir Vukčević and Goran Salihović presented the activities in concrete cases and …

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the attack on a convoy of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) in northern Kosovo earlier today and resulted in the death of one EULEX staff member.

France on Thursday condemned an attack in the troubled northern area of Kosovo earlier in the day in which a policeman from the European Union “Eulex” mission was killed. The area of the incident is a tinderbox where Kosovars and Serbs have frequently clashed in their joint-border region.