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Serbia did its best to reach a compromise in the dialogue with Kosovo, said Marko Djuric, adviser of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic. According to Djuric, the success in the dialogue

European Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule paid a visit to Belgrade on Monday. He said that: “Setting the date for the start of the EU accession talks for Serbia depends on the realisation of the

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to meet with the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia – Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic. The meeting will be held in New York in the frames of the debates on Kosovo during the UN Security Council meeting. The UN Security Council will debate …

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that “the information arriving in Washington did not correspond to the situation in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue”. The progress made in the dialogue was not being assessed correctly, he said after his meeting in Rome late on Monday with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden.

Enlargement Commissioner Fuele told Kosovo leaders to up the fight against corruption in order to boost its chances of opening a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Brussels. “Kosovo has to show even more courage. More efforts

European Union officials told the Serbian government that reform of the justice system was crucial if Belgrade is to reach the rule-of-law standards required for membership. Speaking to Serbian lawmakers who were visiting Brussels on Tuesday in the hope of boosting the country’s

Kosovo said that a peace treaty would facilitate the reconciliation but would also ensure that Serbia pays compensation for the late 1990s war, said Hajredin Kuci, Kosovo’s deputy prime minister and justice minister.

European Parliament (EP) Rapporteur for Serbia Jelko Kacin has said that “Unregulated relations between Serbia and Kosovo would block European integrations but what is more important, they would put a red flag on Serbia in the eyes of foreign investors”.

At a ceremony marking nine years after anti-Serb violence in Kosovo, the serbian prime minister reiterated that 19 civilians were killed, 800 injured, 3,870 expelled and that 935 houses and 34 churches were destroyed. “I wish something like this will never happen again and I want Serbia to protect security …

Stefan Fuele, the European Union commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy, will make an official visit to Belgrade on Monday. The visit comes before the talks that will be hold this week between the Serbian and Kosovo prime ministers.