Serbia

Serbian President Boris Tadić will be in Cyprus today and tomorrow on an official visit. According to a statement released by the president’s press service, Tadić is scheduled to meet today with Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias and Archbishop of Nea Justiniana and All Cyprus Chrysostomos II.

General Ratko Mladic’s war diaries, which the ICTY Prosecution announced today it had received from Belgrade, are considered to be key pieces of evidence in some of the ongoing trials at the UN war crimes tribunal. The Prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, made public …

The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office has called for an investigation to begin at a mass grave site in the southwestern Serbian town of Raska. Ten days ago Serbia announced that with the help of the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, it had uncovered a mass grave …

Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal say Serbia has sent the court a bundle of diaries written by Bosnian Serb wartime military commander General Ratko Mladic. They have filed a motion seeking to have the notebooks included as evidence in the case against Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb wartime …

Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčak said that the solution for the Kosovo problem needs to be found within the region. He confirmed once again that he had “no ambitions of personally offering a plan for solving the Kosovo problem”. “For me it is important for the European Union to be …

Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said on Sunday (May 16th) that an agreement has been reached with Spain, the current head of the EU, that Pristina institutions will be represented at next month’s EU-Western Balkans summit in Sarajevo in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1244. He told the Tanjug news …

Representatives of Kosovo institutions have refused to hold technical talks with Belgrade until after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rules on the legitimacy of Kosovo’s declaration of independence. Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuci said on Sunday (May 16th) everything is still in the idea stage. “There is nothing concrete …

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic said that Serbia is ready to withdraw its genocide suit against Croatia if an agreement is reached for the genocide charges filed by both countries against one another to be mutually and unconditionally dropped.

Serbian Deputy PM Božidar Đelić stated in Zagreb on Friday that Serbia supports Croatia’s accession in the European union in 2012. It is seen as a signal of further enlargement of the union and an incentive to the region countries to persist on their path to the EU, he explained.

Johannes Swoboda, vice-president of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with south-east Europe said one of the solutions for Serbs in Kosovo would be autonomy as was the case with Serbs in BiH with the help of the Dayton treaty.