The EU should do everything possible to ensure the integration of the countries from the Western Balkans and to end divisions in the region, stressed Bulgarian foreign minister Nikolay Mladenov at the traditional Bled Strategic Forum in Slovenia.

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague will be in Belgrade on Tuesday to meet with senior Serbian officials. Political and economic analyst Dragomir Janković told B92 that Hague is not coming to Belgrade to negotiate changes to Serbia’s Kosovo resolution submitted to the UN General Assembly, however.

Serbia is ready to talk to Western countries, EU members in particular, to find compromise regarding its draft resolution on Kosovo submitted to the UN, President Boris Tadic said on Saturday (August 28th). The resolution, filed in late July, was in response to an opinion by the International Court of …

BiH The Institute for Missing Persons said on Friday (August 27th) its personnel have exhumed the remains of 54 Muslim civilians killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Spokeswoman Lejla Cengic said the skeletal remains were in three mass graves at a dump site near Srebrenica, and that five more mass …

The Serbian government adopted an extradition treaty with Montenegro on Friday (August 27th) covering those who have committed crimes punishable by more than three

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in Sarajevo that a united Bosnia-Herzegovina is important for stability of Europe. He also expressed his

Serbia’s Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović says the Priština government’s money allocated for the Serb north is not welcome. The Kosovo Albanian government’s announcement that it would spend EUR 5mn for infrastructure in the northern areas of Kosovo, where Serbs do not recognize its authority, was described by Bogdanović as …

Kosovo’s government is convinced that Serbia’s draft resolution on Kosovo’s secession will not be endorsed by the UN General Assembly in September, Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni told a cabinet meeting

Albania’s Foreign Minister Ilir Meta said on Wednesday (August 25th) that Albania is closer to the EU than ever. During the first day of a Tirana conference involving Albanian ambassadors, he predicted “Our country will

Serbian President Boris Tadić and Republic of Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik will on Saturday visit Užice and Višegrad. Užice is a western Serbian town, while Višegrad is located in eastern RS. Tadić and Dodik will first together open the Užice Free Zone in the city’s local community of Sevojno, …