Balkans

The Serbian government has denied claims it is attempting to prepare the public for a withdrawal of its proposed UN resolution on Kosovo’s declaration of independence.

Bosnia-Herzegovina FM Sven Alkalaj stated on Thursday that, by the end of this year, this country could submit the application for EU candidate status.

Audio tapes found in General Ratko Mladic’s Belgrade home reportedly contain secret recordings made by him of conversations with other officals, in a development that may affect ongoing trials at the Hague Tribunal.

NATO’s Allied Joint Force Commander in Naples, Admiral Mark Fitzgerald, said on Tuesday (August 10th) that UN Resolution 1244 remains a political guide for NATO and that it is up to the

Prosecutors filed genocide charges against four former members of the Republika Srpska (RS) Army on Tuesday (August 10th). They allegedly took part in killing of more than 800 Bosniaks after the fall of Srebrenica during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict. The four are identified as Branimir Manojlovic, Stanko Kojic, Vlastimir Golijan …

Kosovo Albanian PM Hashim Thaci rejected the allegations by an opposition party that Priština and Belgrade were holding secret negotiations. He said that “Kosovo is focused on future developments

The Christian Social Union (CSU) on Tuesday criticized Montenegro’s decision to introduce an economic citizenship for well-known businesspeople. The party, a member of the ruling coalition of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, requested a reintroduction

Radovan Karadzic has asked for his trial be postponed for three weeks to allow him to review audio and video recordings found in the apartment of Ratko Mladic’s wife. The “Mladic tapes”, an assortment of meeting notes, 93 audio and 10 video tapes, two CDs and eight DVDs, were found …

SARAJEVO Nikola Špirić, predsjedavajući Vijeća ministara BiH, primio je anonimnu prijetnju smrću, saopšteno je iz njegovog kabineta. U pismu koje je stiglo u Špirićev ured, a koje je, navodno, upućeno iz Mostara, Špiriću prijete smrću jer “radi protiv Bosne i bosanskog naroda”. Pismo obiluje porukama uvredljivog sadržaja, psovkama, prijetnjama i …

The Norwegian Ambassador to Kosovo Sverre Johan Kvale called on the Hague Tribunal to temporarily release war crime suspect Ramush Haradinaj. In the initial trial in April 2008, the Tribunal acquitted Haradinaj of charges for crimes committed in Kosovo in 1998.