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Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic has announced that Serbia will submit its EU candidacy request by the end of the year, with aim of joining the EU in five to seven years. In an interview for the European Parliament’s official website, Jeremic said that, according to the latest polls, 70 …

The European Parliament is scheduled to give Wednesday the ‘green light’ on annulment of Schengen visas for Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro as of December 19, Slovenian MEP Tanja Fajon, who prepared the visa liberalization report for Western Balkan countries, said.

The Serbian parliament committee for Kosovo and Metohija on Tuesday called for all citizens in Kosovo not to vote in the local elections there, scheduled for November 15.

Serbia’s Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said that Serbs who plan to vote in Kosovo’s local elections this Sunday should ask themselves whether they are helping Belgrade ”save” Kosovo by doing so. Bogdanovic said that: ”Those Serbs who would take part in the elections should ask themselves whether they are …

Sonja Biserko said that she believes that Radovan Karadzic’s tactic to prolong his trial is part of a strategy from Belgrade to obstruct the War Crime Tribunal’s work. Sonja Biserko, director of the Helsinki Committee in Serbia, believes that the work of the Hague Tribunal has had almost no effect …

OSCE mission chief in Serbia, Dimitrios Kypreos said that the mission will work on strengthening the institutions, rule of law, regional cooperation. The Greek diplomat who took over as mission chief in September told daily Politika that none of these questions are more important than the other, because “all democratic …

Montenegrin Deputy Prime Minister Svetozar Marović said that Serbia should be Montenegro’s closest ally in the region. “We expect Serbia to have the same opinion of Montenegro,” Marović said .

German Ambassador to Serbia Wolfram Maas said that Kosovo and Holland are not obstacles on Serbia’s path towards joining the European Union. He said that Serbia’s task is to complete all conditions that are expected of any other candidate for EU membership. “There is only one obligation before Serbia for …

Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić will pay a one-day visit to Cyprus on Friday, the Foreign Ministry said. Jeremić will meet with President Dimitris Christofias, President of the House of Representatives Marios Karoyian and Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou, it was announced.

Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor has charged six former Serb fighters over their alleged roles in killing, rape and torture of Roma civilians in eastern Bosnia during the 1992-95 war, a statement said Friday.