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Belgrade Kosovo talks team head Borko Stefanović says the issue of north Kosovo has to be resolved in a manner which would preserve peace and stability. The north of the province is inhabited predominantly by Serbs who refuse the authority of the Kosovo Albanian government in Priština.

The next session within the dialogue between Belgrade and Priština has been postponed for the next week in Brussels. The agenda may be extended by introducing the issues of electricity and freedom of movement. The negotiating teams will continue to

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule will visit Belgrade on March 29. He will have talks with the country’s top officials. The visit pertains to the ongoing process of reviewing Serbia’s answers to the EC questionnaire. To that end, EC expert missions have been visiting Belgrade since late February.

A Serbian delegation led by PM Mirko Cvetković is today in Banja Luka in the Serb republic (RS) of Bosnia-Herzegovina, for a series of meetings. A joint session of the Serbian and RS governments will also be held on Friday. The session represents continued cooperation in the area of special …

A solution for the Serbian-Albanian conflict cannot be a scenario in which Serbia will recognize Kosovo’s independence, said Serbian President Boris Tadić. He believes that the solution must not be such that one side wins everything while the other loses everything.

The head of the EU delegation to Serbia, Vincent Degert, said on Wednesday (March 16th) that the European Commission (EC) will present its opinion on the country’s EU membership application by October 12th. Degert attended a meeting of EU ambassadors in Smederevo. EU expert missions are visiting Belgrade to assess …

The EULEX police arrested on Wednesday in Kosovo eight people, while one was arrested abroad. The operation came in connection with the investigation into war crimes against Kosovo Serbs and Albanians committed in 1999, the EU mission in Kosovo said.

written by: Ioannis Michaletos, Source: worldsecuritynetwork.com The outlook of Serbia in the field of regional cooperation and border issues, reveals that the country seem eager to implement regional cooperation policies aimed at the so-called “asymmetrical threats” of organized crime, international terrorism, illegal immigration, environmental pollution, money laundering and extremism. Most …

The war crimes court in Belgrade convicted four former paramilitary members Monday (March 14th) of killing civilians during the 1991-1995 war in Croatia. Cedo Budisavljevic, Mirko Malinovic, Milan Bogunovic and Bogdan Grujicic were sentenced to 12 years in prison each. They were found guilty of killing the five-member Rakic family …

Northern Kosovo does not represent a risk for Kosovo; therefore, an interim solution should be sought until a final solution is reached, Marko Prelec, International Crisis Group’s Balkans Project Director told Voice of America on Monday (March 14th). He was discussing