Serbia

The crime in the town of Vukovar in 1991 was premeditated, just like in Srebrenica, Croatian President Stjepan Mesić said yesterday. Croatia is marking Nov. 18 as Vukovar Victims Remembrance Day. Mesić went on to say: “I simply cannot understand how wounded civilians could have been taken out of the …

Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said that the UN’s Chief War Crimes Prosecutor Serge Brammertz has written that fugitive Ratko Mladic is “not within reach” of Serbia’s security services. In an interview with Radio Free Europe, Vuckovic added that nobody could say whether Mladic is in Serbia or not.

Orthodox Christian believers are gathering in Belgrade today to attend the funeral of the Head of the Serbia’s Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle. Holy Liturgy was served this morning at 7.30 by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at the Cathedral Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Belgrade. A funeral procession will …

On Tuesday evening, residents and staff of the Vukovar hospital lit candles in front of the monument outside the hospital which stands to honor the memory of the civilians and soldiers killed by Yugoslav Peoples’ Army, JNA and Serb paramilitary forces on 18 November, 1991. According to hospital data, 1,624 …

Minister of Kosovo Goran Bogdanović says that the time when Belgrade was sending “directives” had passed. He was answering criticism of the official Belgrade’s position toward the local elections held in the province last weekend, organized by the Kosovo Albanian government in Priština.

The Vice President of the European Commission Jacques Barrot announced the Council of the European Union will give November 30 its consent on liberalization of visa regime for Serbia.

Media report that the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, Serge Brammertz, is satisfied with the level of Serbia’s cooperation with the Tribunal even though he has not stated that the country is fully cooperating. Brammertz wrote in his regular report to the UN …

Bakim Kelani, spokeperson for the Kosovo Police Service, KPS, has announced that Serbian and Montenegrin nationals do not need a passport to enter Kosovo. 

Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic protested on Monday at a conference in Brussels because the Kosovo Albanian delegation did not have UNMIK signboards on its table. Dacic considered the missing UNMIK signboards from the tables as an attempt to prejudge the status of Kosovo.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that Germany explicitly supports Serbia’s EU integration. After meeting with Serbian President Boris Tadic on Monday in Berlin, Merkel said “Germany believes that Serbia has fulfilled the conditions for entry into force of the Interim Trade Agreement with the European Union.”