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President Boris Tadić says Belgrade will continue to insist on a resumption of talks on Kosovo and finding a compromise solution. This, the president told state broadcaster RTS late on Wednesday, regardless of the stand of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) stand on the issue of the legality of …

The Hague Tribunal prosecution requested a partial retrial of Ramush Haradinaj. The prosecution claims that the initial trial, which resulted in the ethnic Albanian’s acquittal on charges of crimes in Kosovo in 1998, was not just.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and new US War Crimes Ambassador Stephen Rapp are convinced that Serbia is cooperating fully with the Hague Tribunal. US diplomats will look to promote this impression, in order to press the Dutch to allow the unblocking of Serbia’s Interim Trade Agreement with the …

Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen reiterated that Holland is adamant in its stance of not allowing Serbia to continue its European integration.

European parliament member Doris Pack said that Serbia will not enter the European Union “until it solves its problems with Kosovo”. According to Deutsche Welle, she said at a round table discussion in Berlin that Serbia’s “biggest problem is the fact that Kosovo is its closest neighbor which it does …

Radovan Karadzic’s successor as Bosnian Serb president left Swedish prison on Tuesday and arrived in Belgrade after winning early release from her sentence for committing war crimes. The International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague convicted Biljana Plavsic in February 2003 but last month granted an early …

Official negotiations between Serbia and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) began today in Belgrade. The talks concern the EUR 2.9bn loan and the country’s budget for 2010. These are the first meetings concerning the second and third revision of the loan arrangement, and see participation from IMF delegation members and …

FM Vuk Jeremić says that after the visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Serbia is “stronger economically, politically and regionally”. “The unconditional support from Russia makes Serbia stronger than other countries in the region,” the foreign minister said on Sunday.

Three Albanian political groups in southern Serbia have joined to form a united political party. The party, dubbed the Democratic Union of Albanians, DUA, was formed when a Bujanovac party with the same name, led by Mejdi Zeqiri, merged with Ramiz Zulfiu’s Citizens’ Group, from the town of Presevo, and …

Foreign Affairs Minister Ilir Meta, declared on Monday that Albania would move to strengthen its ties with Serbia, describing the country as an important partner for regional stability in the Balkans. “The strengthening of our relationship with Serbia is an important priority for our regional policy,” said Meta, speaking during …