Serbia

Representatives of the EU, the OSCE and the Council of Europe on Monday (March 29th) voiced their willingness to help Serbia in its decentralisation process. At the opening of a two-day conference in the Serbian parliament, President Boris Tadic said that decentralisation is one of the main challenges facing Serbia …

The Serbian parliament is expected to today in Belgrade vote on the draft declaration condemning the Srebrenica crime. The draft is supported by 114 MPs of the ruling coaling from the DS-led group, and G17 Plus, PUPS and the Socialist Party of Serbia.

Italian Ambassador to Kosovo Michael Giffoni does not rule out the possibility of co-operation between the EU presence in the north and Serbs representing parallel structures there. In an interview with the Pristina-based daily Koha Ditore on Monday (March 29th), Giffoni said he will implement an EU plan aimed at …

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić will meet with his Hungarian, Greek and Croatian counterparts in Budapest on Monday. The main topic of the talks will be the regional stabilization process and the EU integration of the Western Balkans, the minister announced. “A meeting between Hungary, Greece, Croatia and Serbia will …

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić denied reports linking the ICJ ruling in the Kosovo case with the arrest of Ratko Mladić. The delay in announcing the advisory opinion on the legality of the Kosovo Albanian unilateral declaration of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the arrest of the wartime …

Albanian Foreign Minister Ilir Meta said that Albania will continue to cooperate with Serbia for the sake of the Albanians in the Preševo Valley. He said that Tirana will cooperate with Belgrade to improve on the rights and integration of Albanians in southern Serbia. Meta said that policies of good …

Serbian President Boris Tadić said that even though 22 countries of the EU have recognized Kosovo, recognition is not a condition for Serbia’s integration. “Any other situation would be a very big problem and the integration process would be blocked,” Tadić said at a joint press conference held

Serbian President Boris Tadic told EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday (March 26th) that Belgrade’s goal is to get EU candidate status by the end of this year or in early 2011. He reiterated that his country will continue to co-operate with The Hague war crimes

A draft resolution condemning crimes committed in Srebrenica in July 1995 moved to parliament’s docket Saturday (March 27th), submitted by 114 lawmakers from the ruling coalition. According to its text, parliament strongly condemns the 1995 Srebrenica crimes against Bosniaks, as confirmed by the

The foreign ministers of Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia agreed to intensify cooperation. This would come with the aim of solving the problem of refugees and internally displaced persons, a problem which has not been resolved in any one of those countries, a joint statement said.