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Kosovo government have decided to form a special fund for integration of Serbs from north Kosovo. The fund has been formed by the initiative of Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Taci, who assured that this fund will affect the economic development in that part of Kosovo.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle is set to meet Serbia’s top officials today. This will be his first official Balkan tour. Westerwelle is scheduled to meet Serbian PM Mirko Cvetkovic and Serbian President Boris Tadic. In the afternoon he is set to meet his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic.

Opposition leader and former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Ramush Haradinaj will be banned from taking part in politics if he is released from The Hague while he awaits a war crimes retrial, EULEX officials have stated.

UNMIK chief Lamberto Zannier will be in Belgrade today for meetings with Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dačić and Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović. Kosovo and Metohija Ministry

Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni said on Monday (August 23rd) that Kosovo will not offer a counter resolution to the document Serbia has submitted to the UN General Assembly for discussion next month. Kosovo

Azerbaijan will vote in favor of Serbia’s Kosovo resolution during the upcoming UN General Assembly session. This is according to the country’s Ambassador to Serbia Eldar Hasanov, who

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

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.