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General Secretary of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on the member states of the Alliance not to hurry with the withdrawal of their troops from Kosovo, until general decision to be taken.

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele is expected in Belgrade today. Fuele says Serbia’s candidate status request should be considered in October. He also said that the European Commission is ready to commence that process within only a few days.

Future talks between Belgrade and Pristina do not mean that Serbia will recognise Kosovo, Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic said on Wednesday (September 15th). “For Serbia, the red line is that the talks do not, in any

The Assembly of the Community of Kosovo Municipalities is calling on Serbian President Boris Tadic and Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic to resign, public broadcaster RTK reported on Wednesday (September 15th).

Italian diplomat Ettore Sequi has been appointed as head of the European Commission (EC) Delegation in Albania, succeeding Helmut Lohan, whose four-year mandate expires this month. The office of EU foreign policy chief

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashin Thaci said the forthcoming talks between Belgrade and Pristina will be transparent and that Kosovo’s parliament has the last say over ratification of eventual deal.

Serbian Ministry for Kosovo State Secretary Oliver Ivanović has stated that Belgrade and Priština cannot negotiate without a mediator.

In a report Tuesday (September 14th), the IMF concluded that Greece is on track to cut its budget deficit according to plan this year, but should do more to improve tax collection and to control spending. According to the

Austria’s Parliament will ratify the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with Serbia by the end of the year, Barbara Prammer, speaker of the lower house, told visiting Serbian counterpart Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic

European Commission (EC) representatives praised Albania on Tuesday (September 14th) for meeting three additional criteria of the EU visa liberalisation process that were established in May. Albania’s Interior Minister