Serbia

Kosovo Interior Minister says EULEX should be more efficient

Kosovo’s Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi has said the EU’s mission in his country, EULEX, has two options – either enhance its efficiency, or find a strategy to leave. Rexhepi’s statement is related with the enforcement of functions and authorities in Northern Kosovo and the beginning of the work of Kosovan …

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Greece and Serbia boost bilateral ties

Following his meeting on 28 April with Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Dimitris Droutsas, Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Ivica Dacic thanked Athens on its support to the European course of Serbia and its accession to the EU as soon as possible.

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Belgrade court upholds Vujanovic’s sentence

The Appeals Court in Belgrade upheld on Wednesday the 20-year sentence given to former deputy commander of Serb forces in Vukovar, Stanko Vujanovic, for war crimes against Croat military prisoners of war. Vujanovic was convicted of participating in the November 1991 murder of an estimated 200 Croats at the Ovcara …

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Serbia wants independent organ trade investigation in Kosovo

Serbia wants an independent investigation into human organ trafficking in Kosovo, Serbian Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric said. Commenting on a proposal that the UN Security Council form a body that would be tasked with the investigation, which will be discussed mid-May, he said that the U.S., Great Britain, …

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Serbian Prosecution opens Croatia massacre case

Serbian Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekarić says information regarding massacre of 9 Serb civilians in Croatia in 1995 prompted them to open the case. He said that the recent guilty verdict against two former Croatian generals incited people to speak out about war crimes that happened during and after …

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Serbian, Turkish and Bosnian Presidents to have a trilateral meeting

A trilateral summit of Serbia, Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) takes place on Tuesday (April 26th) in Karadjordjevo. President Boris Tadic, his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul and members of BiH tripartite presidency — Nebojsa Radmanovic, Bakir Izetbegovic and Zeljko Komsic — will discuss co-operation among their countries.

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Serbia has sent a proposal for Kosovo organ trafficking investigation to UN

Serbia’s Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic has sent a proposal for an investigation into allegations of organ trafficking in Kosovo and Albania to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Jeremic sent the letter to Ban on Tuesday afternoon, after he discussed the issue with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, who was in …

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