Serbia

Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić said Tuesday the government’s strategic goal was to gain the status of a candidate for EU membership. Another was to be given the start date for the accession negotiations by the end of the year, he said, adding that Serbia expected the EU to …

Lawyers of former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, sued at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), will ask Serbia and Republika Srpska to pay for the defence.

Director of the governmental office of Serbia responsible for the EU integration, Milica Djelevic said that the state will manage to meet all rest challenges and

Serbian FM Vuk Jeremić has said that Serbia will soon face a “more strict” approach of the EU, as the country hopes to join the organization. Speaking in Luxembourg during a meeting of Western Balkans and EU foreign ministers, Jeremić said that the union would insist on the implementation of …

Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremic said that it is not in Serbia’s interest to ever recognize the independence of its breakaway province of Kosovo. He said that should that happen then Serbia could well expect new declarations of independence in other quarters.

Creation of a “Greater Albania” would harm not only Serbs but also other neighboring nations, Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović has said. He added that this would also destabilize the entire region and that the Serbian government opposed forming any unreal countries.

Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga has stated that partition of Kosovo and exchange of territory are not good solutions. She said that Kosovo would not discuss its internal issues with anyone. Jahjaga stressed that she could not say whether Belgrade would request partition “although the parties in the dialogue do not …

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule said that there were no new conditions for Serbia’s on its path toward the EU. He repeated that it was necessary for Serbia to fulfill the Action plan which had been adopted earlier by the Serbian government in order to get the EU candidate status.

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister for EU Integration Bozidar Đelić presented on in Brussels presented proposals on EU financial assistance. The suggestions were made in conversation with three EU commissioners in charge of financial affairs, and focused on how to make EU assistance to Serbia and other regional countries more efficient.

Washington “absolutely rejects the idea of a division of Kosovo as it is dangerous for Kosovo and the entire Balkans”, a U.S. State Department official said. Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon was in Priština on Thursday.