August, 2011

• 25 August

  Mladić to appear before Hague Tribunal

  Hague indictee Ratko Mladić should on Wednesday appear before the Hague Tribunal for the first time with recently appointed defense counsel Branko Lukić. It is expected that Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz’s proposal to hold two separate trials will be discussed. According to the proposal, the former Bosnian Serb commander would …

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• 25 August

  Croatian PM makes first visit to Kosovo

  Croatian PM’s first visit to Kosovo on Wednesday sees warm words and two agreements signed on European integration and transport. Leaders of Kosovo and Croatia pledged to deepen ties between their two countries on the occasion of the visit to Pristina of the Croatian Prime Minister, Jadranka Kosor.

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• 25 August

  Serbian official says the coutry will get EU candidate status

  Serbian Foreign Ministry’s Foreign Policy Council President Sonja Liht said Thursday she believed Serbia would get the EU candidate status. She said that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s statements during her recent visit to Belgrade constituted a list of wishes, some of which could be fulfilled, while others

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• 24 August

  Macedonian FM to visit Bulgaria for improving relations

  New Macedonian Foreign Affairs Minister Nikola Poposki is expected in Sofia September 1 on a visit that it is hoped will warm up tense relation between the two neighbors. The first international visits of Minister Poposki will be in the Balkan countries of Croatia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro.

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• 24 August

  90-100 PKK members have been killed during Turkish army raids

  The Turkish military says 100 PKK members have been killed, while more than 80 others have been wounded during air and artillery strikes in northern Iraq. Up to 100 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have been killed in raids conducted by the Turkish military in northern …

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• 24 August

  Serbia will not give up on Kosovo institutions

  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.

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• 24 August

  Hadzic pleads not guilty

  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.

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• 24 August

  Hadžić to enter plea at Hague Tribunal

  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.

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• 24 August

  Greek Media outraged by Merkel for calling ‘Macedonia’ instead of FYROM

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has enraged Greek media by calling “Macedonia” the country they state should be only referred to as “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”. “It is very important for Serbia to collaborate with Kosovo, for Bosnia to elect a government and for Macedonia to solve the name dispute …

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• 24 August

  EULEX spokesman: Kosovo organ case investigation to start soon

  Nicholas Hawton, an EULEX spokesman stated on Tuesday that recruitment of members of a special team in charge of probing human organ trade allegations “was being finalized” and it should start operating soon. 

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