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Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said that he expects to have “good inter-state relations” with Serbia soon. He said that Kosovo wants these relations to be between “two independent and sovereign states.” “Kosovo is an independent and democratic state and I expect Belgrade to work to build good inter-state relations …

Ivo Josipovic, Croatia’s newly elected president, in an interview for Bosnian media this weekend, said it is too early to talk about withdrawing the law suit at the International Court of Justice, ICJ, against Serbia for genocide, filed in 1999. “With that suit certain goals should have been achieved. When …

Serbain President Boris Tadić says that Serbia would never support a referendum that would lead to the splitting of Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Serbia will not support any act or referendum that would lead to the splitting of Bosnia, since Serbia is a guarantor of the Dayton Agreement,” Tadić old Sarajevo …

Serbia’s foreign minister Vuk Jeremic has ordered the immediate withdrawal of Serbia’s ambassador in Podgorica following Montenegro’s decision to establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo. Jeremic asked the ambassador to return to Belgrade for consultations. After much discussion about when the right time is to establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo, Montenegro’s …

Montenegro and Kosovo have established diplomatic ties with an exchange of letters of foreign ministers, the government in Podgorica announced today. Montenegrin Foreign Minister Milan Roćen said in his letter that he expects the position of the Montenegrin community in Kosovo to be permanently solved, and that as this issue …

Serbian President Boris Tadic has announced that he will not attend the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected Croatian President, Ivo Josipovic, if Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiju is attends too. Tadic believes that his presence at the ceremony, which is scheduled for 18 February, would mean that Serbia is indirectly …

One year after the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning and commemorating the genocide committed in Srebrenica in 1995, politicians in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska remain reluctant to consider taking a similar move. Serbia’s President Boris Tadic is urging Serbia’s Parliament to adopt a resolution condemning the massacre, …

Ivica Dačić says his party is not against a resolution about the Srebrenica crime but that it should also condemn all crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia. Dačić, who is first deputy PM and interior minister in the current cabinet, is the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS).

Serbia will be informed about the EU member states attitude toward its candidacy bid and the next steps that are to be taken, the Spanish ambassador says. “We have started consultations with EU member states on Serbia’s demand and on January 26, EU is to meet with Serbia at the …

Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanović says he will not stop visiting Serbs in the province regardless of yesterday’s incident near Štrpce. Bogdanović intended to welcome in the Orthodox (Julian calendar) New Year on Mt. Brezovica with the local Serbs “and learn about the problems they face, and how to …