Eurasia

British Foreign Secretary William Hague urged Serbian officials on Tuesday (August 31st) to reconsider the draft resolution on Kosovo they plan to present to the UN General Assembly

Kosovo authorities started excavating a suspected mass grave Tuesday (August 31st) believed to contain the bodies of Kosovo Serbs killed during the 1999 conflict. The Commission on Missing Persons did not comment

International High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina Valentin Inzko says a partition of the country would be a posthumous victory for Slobodan Milošević. He said that this would not be accepted either by “Bosniaks or the international community.

Serbian President Boris Tadić has supported an initiative to form a regional commission tasked with determining facts about victims of wars in the Balkans. He met in Belgrade on Wednesday with representatives of the REKOM coalition, and said he was supported solving all crimes in order to achieve justice for …

The US delegation has kicked off its visit to Montenegro. US Congressmen William Delahunt, Den Barton, Mike Tarner and Steven Coren will meet representatives of Montenegro’s political parties, Montenegro’s parliament announced.

The new commander of KFOR is German General Erhard Buehler, and he will take over from his predecessor General Markus Bentler today. Commander Allied Joint

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković has said that there is no solution to the Kosovo issue without Serbia. “As far as Kosovo and Metohija is concerned, no solution can

Bulgaria’s Minister on Regional Development and Macedonia’s Minister of Local Self-Government will sign a memorandum on understanding in the execution of a cross-border cooperation program between the two countries.

Turkish president Abdullah Gul is set to begin a two-day visit to Bosnia amid growing resentment among Bosnian Serbs over his country’s increased diplomatic influence in the Western Balkans. He is scheduled to meet with members of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency and visit the southern town of Mostar on Thursday.

The commander of the police station in northern Mitrovica, Milija Milosevic, was discharged from his post Monday (August 30th) following a decision by Police Director General Behar Selimi. Milosevic was rumoured to