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The Supreme Court on Saturday (July 31st) reduced the sentence of former parliament member Vladimir Glavas from ten to eight years. In May 2009, he was sentenced to ten years in prison for war crimes against ethnic

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has distributed a proposed resolution on Kosovo to the EU members. The text accepts the International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion on the legality of the Kosovo

Brussels: Greece, maintains its decision not to recognize Kosovo, said alternate MFA, D. Droutsas to the General Affairs Council of EU. The Turkish activities in recent months in the

Serbia’s Infrastructure Minister Milutin Mrkonjić will sign an agreement on forming a joint railway company with his Slovenia and Croat counterparts.

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić has urged more than 120 countries that haven’t recognized Kosovo to support Serbia’s UN GA resolution.

Kosovo Prime Minister Hasim Taci said that ideas about special status, autonomy, trading territories and division should be forgotten forever. He also said that

Alternate Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas will pay visit to Belgrade on Friday in order to promote Greece’s initiative to reestablish talks between Belgrade and Pristina.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Serbian FM Vuk Jeremic on Thursday discussed the Kosovo issue and Serbia’s recent resolution on the topic, which it submitted to the UN General Assembly in New York earlier this week.

Former BiH presidency member Ejup Ganic arrived in Sarajevo on Wednesday, a day after winning an extradition battle in the UK. A court in London rejected Serbia’s extradition request, ruling that charges

President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu met on Wednesday (July 28th) as part of ongoing talks to reunify the divided island. The two officials discussed the issue of property, involving numerous complex claims between the two sides concerning property seized decades ago. The UN Secretary-General’s special adviser …