President says militants among Kosovo Serbs want to provoke conflict and retard Serbia’s EU accession. Serbia’s President on Thursday warned that Serb extremists in Kosovo
Read More »Russian aid trucks arrive in North Kosovo destination
A Russian convoy of 25 trucks transporting 300 tons of aid for Kosovo Serbs has reached its destination at Zvecan after a prolonged standoff at the Kosovo-Serbia border. Seventy-two hours after being stopped at the Kosovo-Serbia border, a Russian convoy transporting humanitarian aid for Serbs in northern Kosovo finally reached …
Read More »Serbia, Croatia could retract genocide claims
The new Croatian social democratic government is more likely to resolve the outstanding issue of genocide claims. An inter-governmental agreement on genocide claims between Serbia and Croatia may bring both countries
Read More »Skopje government to ask NATO to join under name FYROM
Skopje government will ask for a change of the decision of NATO and a membership in the alliance under the name of Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Macedonian representatives will present the request at the NATO meeting on January 24-25 in Brussels. The country will ask the ambassadors of …
Read More »Northern Kosovo Serbs present way for peace
N. Kosovo Serb leaders presented Wednesday a peace initiative to act as a temporary solution to the current crisis in the province international reps in Kosovo. The Serbs presented the initiative to KFOR, EULEX, UNMIK and OSCE at a regular meeting between the representatives of the local self-governments in northern …
Read More »German ambassador to Belgrade says Germany never asked Serbia to recognize Kosovo
German Ambassador to Serbia Wolfram Maas has stated that his country has never asked Serbia to recognize Kosovo’s independence. “We have never expected or asked for the Kosovo recognition but we do expect normalization of relations (with Kosovo) from Serbia,” he said.
Read More »United States pledges to protect cultural sites in Kosovo without discrimination
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga signed the Agreement on Protection and Preservation of Certain Cultural Properties. Clinton said the U.S. was committed to the preservation of all of Kosovo’s cultural heritage.
Read More »UN Peacekeeping troops presence Cyprus extended for 7 Months
The Security Council today decided to extend the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus until 19 July 2012, and called on the leadership of the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot communities to accelerate the pace of talks aimed at reunification.
Read More »Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia to co-operate on wartime missing persons
At a meeting on Mt Vlasic, representatives of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia discussed the future of the search for and identification of missing persons, and agreed to continue co-operation. Representatives of the International Commission on Missing Persons, ICMP, Bosnia’s Institute for Missing Persons, INO, the Commission for Detained and Missing …
Read More »Bosnia arrests three Muslims over war crimes
Three Bosnian Muslims, including two active police officers, were arrested Wednesday accused of involvement in the torture of ethnic Croats during the country’s 1992-1995 war, prosecutors said.
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