Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović said on Wednesday that Serbia will continue to perform its functions in the north of Kosovo and Metohija. The country “will not give up on its institutions in that territory”, the minister was quoted as saying.

Former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges including the massacre of civilians taken from Vukovar hospital in one of the darkest episodes of the country’s 1992-95 war.

Former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadžić will on Wednesday enter a plea to 14 counts of the indictment for crimes against non-Serbs in Slavonia in 1991-1992. During his fist appearance before the Hague Tribunal on July 25 Hadžić postponed entering a plea for a month.