Serbia

The European Parliament (EP) will ratify Serbia’s Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU in January, EP Rapporteur for Serbia Jelko Kacin said on Monday (December 20th) in Belgrade. He announced

Serbian Minister of Labor Rasim Ljajić said in Strasbourg in Monday that the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, should assume responsibility for the Kosovo organ trade. The chairman of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal said that EULEX should also process as soon as possible the

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic on Saturday (December 18th) assured Albanian Deputy Prime Minister Ilir Meta during a meeting in Belgrade that Serbia remains open to dialogue and

Serbian President Boris Tadić believes that the international community will see the Kosovo problem with different eyes after a report on crimes committed against Serbs. “Serbia has been waiting for years in front of international institutions for a report like this” Tadić said. 

The trial for nine former members of a paramilitary unit accused for war crimes against civilians in the village of Ćuška near Peć in Kosovo starts today. The trial will be held before the War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade High Court.

European Parliament rapporteur for Serbia Jelko Kacin is visiting Serbia, where he is meeting with government and parliament officials and NGO representatives. Kacin said in Belgrade on Monday that Dick Marty’s report on KLA organ trafficking is not substantiated enough to justify

Serbian and Russian Foreign Ministers Vuk Jeremić and Sergey Lavrov discussed bilateral and international cooperation in Moscow today. The two ministries are preparing a declaration on strategic partnership between Russia and Serbia. 

Representatives of Serbs who fled Croatia during the 1991-1995 war announced on Monday (December 13th) they are launching a petition drive to insist that Croatia resolve their property rights and other outstanding issues before joining the EU. They will start collecting signatures as of Wednesday in Serbia, Montenegro, Republika Srpska, …

The Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor has filed an indictment against six individuals suspected of helping war crimes indictee Stojan Zupljanin evade justice. Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric said that the indictment covered the period from

Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković will pay a visit to Banja Luka, RS, in Bosnia-Herzegovina this Tuesday. It was announced that he would confer with Republic of Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik. Cvetković will attend a ceremonial reception organized by Dodik to mark his recent inauguration.