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KFOR Commander Erhard Drews believes that the Wednesday meeting in Zvečan is unnecessary. Even though Kosovo Serbs have invited him, Drews will not appear at the meeting, said commander’s spokesperson on Tuesday evening.

A Serb leader in North Kosovo says the 50,000 Serbs living there want to merge with Serbia, and will not live in an independent Kosovo, whatever the EU and NATO say. The head of the Serbian National Council, Nebojsa Jovic, says that 50,000 Kosovo Serbs living in the area north …

Macedonia receives a positive report from the European Commission for a third time and implements essential reforms in its judicial system, education, healthcare, fight with crime and corruption for a third time, reads the conclusion from a conference organized by the youth organization of the ruling party VMRO-DPMNE. According to …

A delegation of the NATO parliamentary assembly, led by Lord Michael Jopling, has expressed their concern about the political situation in Bosnia, which has been unable to form a new government more than one year after general elections were held.

The last of the four war-crimes cases concerning atrocities originally alleged to have been committed by former ethnic Albanian rebels during the 2001 armed conflict have been annulled by the Macedonian justice system. On Tuesday, the Prosecutor’s Office in Macedonia stated that it had given up from

There was no “significant progress” in the meeting with Serbian President Boris Tadić late on Sunday, said leaders of Serb municipalities from northern Kosovo. After the meeting in Belgrade, they stated that they received assurance that agreement on the deployment of Kosovo Albanian

Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Uzbekistan with a residence in Moscow Zeljko Janjetovic handed over credentials addressed to Uzbek President Islam Karimov to the Foreign Ministry, the ministry reported. During the meeting at the ministry, the sides discussed the Uzbek-Bosnian

In March 2012, the sea and air borders of Bulgaria and Romania should be included in the passport-free Schengen area and their land borders are expected to follow in July, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said. He was speaking during his visit to Brussels, where he attended the European Council …

KFOR commander general Erhard Drevs has said a new meeting with representatives of Kosovan Serbs might take place on Saturday. Meanwhile, ethnic Serbs are reinforcing the barricades close to the village of Zupce.

The checkpoints on the Macedonian-Greek border are open again. The checkpoints were closed due to Greek customs officers’ strike, which ended on Friday morning. Busy traffic is expected at all checkpoints.