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KFOR bust a barricade on the road to Jarinje border checkpoint on Tuesday morning, using tear gas. KFOR arrested people who were on the barricades. The barricades of soil and gravel are being removed, too. The NATO staff arrest everyone crossing the border using alternative routes.

The Croatian government will not drop the genocide lawsuit launched against Serbia, Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said in Vukovar on Saturday 24 September. Kosor said that “such a decision can only be passed by the government and the Croatian cabinet will not do this.”

Despite the unwillingness of the authorities in Pristina to discuss the situation in North Kosovo and Jarinje and Brnjak checkpoints in the next round of talks, Serbian officials are set to put the two issues on the agenda of the dialog. It is expected Serbia’s chief negotiator Borislav Stefanovic will …

The new round of negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina are expected to take place in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday. Telecommunications, energy and Kosovo’s participation in regional meetings and initiatives will be up for discussion. The sources refuse to say whether the agenda will include a discussion of the situation …

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is planning on visiting Belgrade for the second time this year, daily Danas has learned from top Serbian officials. The Russian prime minister officially visited Serbia on March 23, when he spoke to Serbian

Trial of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Ramush Haradinaj continued on Monday in the Hague Tribunal after three weeks. A protected witness said that “Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo (FARK)”, i.e. the 134th brigade had entered Kosovo in June 1998 to fight against Serbian paramilitary forces.

Serbian customs officials are respecting the new deal on trade exports from Kosovo but Kosovo businesses have yet to take advantage of the new market, Kosovo Trade and Industry Minister Mimoza Kusari-Lila has said. Kusari-Lila said that seven trucks carrying Kosovo-made products had been allowed to enter Serbia, which had …

Albanian Foreign Minister Edmond Haxhinasto has asked the head of Libya’s National Transitional Council, Muhammad Jibril, to recognize Kosovo as an independent state, when the government is formed in Tripoli. Haxhinasto and Jibril met on Friday on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in …

Serbia’s Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković has said that Serbia has fulfilled all conditions necessary to get the EU candidate status. He added, however, that Serbia would not give up on its state policy.

The next round of talks between Belgrade and Pristina scheduled for next Wednesday will take place most probably. Belgrade keeps on insisting on a special status for North Kosovo. However, Brussels thinks it is impossible to give Kosovo a special status, but in future it might become something like an …