Serbia

BELGRADE, Serbia US Ambassador to Belgrade Cameron Munter says his country considers Serbia to be co-operating with The Hague war crimes tribunal and has told The Netherlands this. The Dutch government has long refused to advance Serbia’s EU accession process, until it arrests war crimes indictee Ratko Mladic.

Belgrade’s Blic daily newspaper reveals the personal insights and damning details of the diary of Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic, which has been handed over to the Hague Tribunal. Blic daily was apprised of some of the content of the diary by unnamed sources and published those insights on …

“It is always smart to unite against a common enemy, and that is Croatia who has border disputes with everyone. With Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Montenegro” said the head of the Slovenian National Party, Zmago Jelincic, in an interview for the Frankfurt “Vesti”, the Serbian Diaspora paper. He added …

Kosovo’s government has earmarked 16,000 euros for the construction of a new house for a Serbian family recently returned to Kosovo, lauding the move as a demonstration of the government’s commitment to ensuring that Kosovo is a true home for all of its ethnic groups. Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci …

Serbian Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac told Parliament yesterday that the government was in full compliance with a parliamentary ruling on military neutrality, underlining his ministry’s commitment to membership responsibilities in NATO’s Partnership for Peace, PfP, programme. Discussing recent military exercises held in Georgia from May 9 to June 1, Sutanovac …

The Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz of the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, is scheduled tomorrow to submit his long-awaited report on Serbian cooperation to the UN Security Council in New York. Political commentators expect this report to be his most positive assessment yet of Serbia’s cooperation …

he prosecution of The Hague’s international war crimes tribunal will not file an appeal to the not guilty verdict in the case of former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic, who was tried for war crimes in Kosovo in the first half of 1999, Belgrade’s daily ‘Vecernje novosti’ cited a statement by …

Serbia’s government is funding a new construction project in Kosovo, paving a road in the southern Brezovica ski resort. Brezovica is located in the municipality of Shterpce, which is home to a significant Serb minority. The Kosovo daily Express reported that Serbia’s ministry of economy and finance had set aside …

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said a resolution proposed by Saudi Arabia calling on Islamic countries to recognise Kosovo had not been accepted at the meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Damascus. “Syria, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Algeria and some other countries submitted amendments to that proposal so that the …

The Serbian Orthodox Church has overruled an earlier announcement by the of Bishop Artemije of Raska and Prizren, and has decided to endorse US Vice President Joseph Biden’s visit to Kosovo’s Visoki Decani monastery Thursday. Controversy began when the Raska and Prizren Diocese told media Wednesday that Artemije harshly criticised …