Serbs in northern Kosovo early on Monday stopped and turned back several KFOR vehicles on the road leading to the Jarinje administrative checkpoint. Their local representatives said the passage of NATO troops was “not harmonized with heads of local self-governments in northern Kosovo”.

A text of an agreement on the Georgian-Russian WTO negotiations has been already initialed by the parties and the document will be signed on Nov.10, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said at a traditional briefing on Monday. “It is important that this agreement has been reached and the process …

Serbian President Boris Tadic said that the country wants to join the Azerbaijan- Georgia-Romania-Interconnection liquefied natural gas project as it seeks to diversify its supplies. Serbia currently imports gas only from Russia through Ukraine and Hungary.