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Croatian Justice Minister Ivan Šimonović said that there is no possibility that Serbia can pay reparations for damages incurred by Croatia during the war. He said that Croatia can only expect “symbolic reparations based on the genocide committed”, referring to the genocide charges Croatia filed against then Yugoslavia in 1999.

The war crimes chamber of the High Court in Belgrade has remanded in custody for 30 days 9 persons suspected of crimes committed in area of Pec, Kosovo in 1999. The suspects were arrested on Friday, March 12. According to Bruno Vekaric from the prosecution, two others are at large.

Serbia has made surprising progress in the last several months in its European integrations, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said. He said that the visa liberalization for Serbian citizens offers a new perspective for change and cooperation. 

Serbian President Boris Tadić said on Sunday that Serbia has nothing against the extradition of Ejup Ganić to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Serbian President Boris Tadić met with his German counterpart Horst Koehler to discuss Serbia’s European integration process. Tadić told Koehler that long-term peace, stability, and economic development in the Western Balkans is only possible through the European integration of the region.

Macedonian Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska and Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic on Friday (March 12th) vowed to step up co-operation against a wave of asylum seekers from their countries trying to move to EU member countries. “We will investigate together

War crimes prosecutors announced on Saturday they are investigating 26 people suspected of committing crimes against Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. Nine other people were arrested in Serbia on Friday for those war crimes, specifically the robbing and killing of over 200 Albanians in May 1999 in villages near Pec, …

Veritas Documentation Center President Savo Štrbac said a court decision to reduce jail sentence of Mirko Norac was disappointing and unjust. The Supreme Court of Croatia reduced by a year former Croat General Mirko Norac ‘s prison sentence.

Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic will pay official visit to Macedonia on Friday. Serbian Minister will meet his Macedonian counterpart Gordana Jankulovska and discuss on police cooperation between the two countries. The two ministers will also discuss the asylum-seekers problem, which started after the visa liberalization.

The Prosecution in Belgrade has indicted Darko Radivoje, nicknamed Gurgula, for war crimes committed in 1991 in Croatia. According to the indictment, Radivoje, 41, was a member of the Territorial defence in Tenja, Croatia who fought alongside Serb forces during the war.