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Croatia will likely sign the accession treaty with the European Union in the first half of December, according to Vesna Pusic, the chairwoman of the parliamentary National Committee

Serbia’s President Boris Tadić will today pay the first official visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina. Sarajevo expects a “sincere and friendly talk” and “progress” in all open issues.

The annual session of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly (PA) will start on Wednesday in Belgrade. The session has been named “Strengthening the OSCE’s Effectiveness and Efficiency – A new start after the Astana Summit”.

Serb Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Šešelj will enter his plea today on contempt of court charges before the Hague Tribunal. The Hague Tribunal charged Šešelj with contempt for refusing to comply with a court order and remove documents that reveal the names of protected witnesses, who testified

Gravediggers and morgue workers are working overtime this week to prepare a funeral for hundreds of victims of the Srebrenica massacre whose remains were found in mass graves and identified through DNA analysis.

Serbian President Boris Tadic departs on an official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday. This is Tadic’s first visit to Sarajevo. He will meet with the members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina – Nebojsa Radmanovic, Bakir Izetbegovic and Zeljko Komsic – and with parliament and government officials.

The EU chief of foreign policy tells Kosovo’s Hashim Thaci that the recent agreement reached between Kosovo and Serbia should be put into practice as soon as possible. Two days after Kosovo and Serbia reached an agreement on some working issues through EU mediation, Catherine Ashton praised Kosovo reaching the …

Good neighborly relations are a guarantee of security and that’s why the EU has a right to insist on them, said Dragoljub Micunovic, chairman of the political council of the governing Democratic Party and chairman of parliamentary committee for foreign affairs. “This should be a priority in the country’s foreign policy …

In July, Serbian president Boris Tadic will pay his first official state visit to Bosnia since the end of the bloody 1992-95 Yugoslav wars. Although Tadic has visited Bosnia already, those trips were not described as state visits.

Wartime Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic on Monday, refused to enter a plea to charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity and was removed from the courtroom for unruly behavior. It was his second appearance before the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. According …