Serbia

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said that he expects “both Serbian and Kosovo officials” to be present at the EU-Western Balkans conference. The gathering is planned for June in Sarajevo. Belgrade snubbed an informal conference earlier this year in Slovenia, insisting that Kosovo Albanian officials take part in accordance with …

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini will visit Serbia today. Ahead of his visit Frattini said that Italian diplomats are investing maximum efforts to soon unfreeze the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) between the European Union and Serbia and carry out a technical evaluation of Serbia’s application for accession in the …

The fight against organized crime dominated the discussions between the leaders of Bulgaria and Serbia on Monday, as the Bulgarian delegation headed by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is on an official visit to Belgrade. The two ministers of interior, Ivica Dacic of Serbia and Tzvetan Tsvetanov of Bulgaria signed an …

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov is scheduled to leave Monday for an official trip to Serbia, his office has informed. Borisov is set to meet with Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković and President Boris Tadic and is expected to

Serbian and Croatian defense ministry officials Dušan Spasojević and Pjer Simunović, harmonized a defense agreement in Zagreb on Thursday. The deal should be signed by the two countries’ ministers of defense, reports said.

Republika Srpska (RS) President Rajko Kuzmanovic denied on Wednesday that the entity is attempting to minimise the crimes committed in Srebrenica in July 1995. On Tuesday, High Representative Valentin Inzko criticised a recent decision by the RS government to revise a report drafted by the previous government on the number …

Turkey’s efforts to normalise relations between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia continue as Istanbul is set to host on Saturday the first trilateral presidential-level meeting of the three countries. The three are expected to discuss the strengthening of peace and stability in the Balkans.

Presenting his 30-page defence of charges of organising the murder of Ivo Pukanic, publisher of the Croatian weekly Nacional, suspected crime boss Sreten Jocic, aka Joca Amsterdam, said he had “no motive” to commit the crime. Speaking at the beginning of the trial before the Special Court in Belgrade on …

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said that Spain is ready to continue to offer help to Serbia on its path to European integration. “Spain will invest all possible efforts to speed up Serbia’s European Union association,” Moratinos said after meeting with his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremić on Wednesday in …

The Office of the High Representative (OHR) said the final RS government conclusions represent another outrageous attempt to deny the Srebrenica genocide. OHR said that the government in Banja Luka deliberately distorted determined historical and legal facts by presenting wrong and false information with the intention