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Macedonian Minister of Labor and Social policy Xhelal Bajrami and OSCE Ambassador to Macedonia Jose Luis Herero are set to sign a memorandum of understanding. The signing of this memorandum aims to review and mark the implementation of the Action plan for improving the situation of Roma people in the …

Serbia is open to discussing its draft UN resolution on Kosovo, but is not ready to change or withdraw it, Serbian officials have said. Zdravko Ponos, Serbia’s assistant minister of foreign affairs, denied media reports that Germany FM Guido Westerwelle is to visit Belgrade to

The UN General Assembly is expected to discuss Serbia’s draft resolution on Kosovo on September 9th, local media reported on Sunday (August 22nd). The document says that “unilateral secession is not an acceptable way to solve territorial issues”, and calls for reaching a “mutually acceptable solution to all open issues” …

Institutions in Serb-dominated Mitrovica say that the number of Kosovo Serbs who are interested in obtaining Kosovo documents has increased lately, local media reported on Monday (August 23rd). Civil Registry Office

UN mediator Matthew Nimetz is expected to offer a new compromise proposal next month in the name dispute between Macedonia and Greece, local A1 TV reported on Sunday (August 22nd). Government

Serbia will accept talks, but not a drastic change to its UN General assembly Kosovo resolution, MFA sources said in Belgrade today. The United States and the EU have been increasing their diplomatic offensive, while media reports place the forthcoming visit of German FM Guido Westerwelle in that context. 

EULEX Deputy Head Roy Reeve said Monday that the EU mission has appointed seven of its judges to the court in northern Kosovska Mitrovica. According to him, this came in an attempt to reduce the number of unresolved cases, which has reached 20,000.

“There are chances for Moldova in October to receive a road map from the EU that will open clear prospects on the visa regime liberalization,” Prime Minister Vlad Filat said in a meeting with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski.

Slovakia’s Foreign Minister Mikulaš Dzurinda said that his country is against recognizing Kosovo. He also stressed that the “unilateral secessions is not in the interest of Europe”.

First Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić on Sunday again spoke about Serbia’s UN GA Kosovo draft. He said that it was “unrealistic to expect for Serbia to accept the adoption of a resolution that would recognize legality of Kosovo-Metohija’s independence”.