Serbia

The UNHCR has identified Serbia as one of the top five countries with a recurring refugee crisis. At a UNHCR meeting held in Vienna today, Serbia’s UNHCR representative Lennart Kotsalainen stated that fourteen years after the war in the Balkans, “a great number of refugees still live in Serbia, which …

BELGRADE, Serbia Rasim Ljajic, head of Serbia’s National Council for Co-operation with The Hague war crimes tribunal (ICTY), rejected Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) media reports Tuesday (June 16th) that alleged it has been holding negotiations on the arrest of war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic.

The Serbian Security and Information Agency, BIA, are denying media reports made last Friday in Pristina that three of their agents had been arrested in Caglavica, Kosovo. Jovan Stojic, chief of the Agency director’s office told Beta news agency at the weekend that “The Security and Information Agency has no …

Serbian President Boris Tadic on Friday was presented with credentials from several newly appointed ambassadors to Serbia for the first time. He received the ambassadors in gathering from Egypt, Angola, Italy and Macedonia: Aly Galal Bassiouny, Toko Diakenga Serao, Armando Varricchio and Ljubisha Georgievski respectively.

Serbian president Boris Tadic told media in Novi Sad on Saturday that an equal regional development of Serbia should in no way postpone or halt the adoption of the draft Vojvodina Statute in Parliament. “Equal regional development is a subject that requires a serious democratic debate in the years to …

Serbia will invest 3.8 million euros in clearing unexploded bombs and ammunition dating from the 1999 NATO bombing from rivers in Belgrade, a government official said on Thursday. The project to remove unexploded ordnance from the Sava and the Danube will be jointly funded by the European Commission and Serbian …

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Exclusive footage aired Wednesday evening (June 10th) on Federal Television of BiH (FTV) that shows former Bosnian Serb Army Commander Ratko Mladic hiding in plain sight in Serbia.

A concluding meeting between Serbian officials and the European Commission will take place today in Brussels before any decision can be made on abolishing the visa regime for Serbian citizens traveling to EU countries. Officials will study the EC report on Serbia to determine whether the country has met the …

Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Konuzin has said that Moscow was seriously considering Serbia’s request for one billion euros in aid, Beta news agency reported. Such an aid package would earmark 200 million euros for the national budget and 400 million euros for infrastructure projects. 

BELGRADE, Serbia Recognising Kosovo’s independence and joining NATO are not preconditions for Serbia’s EU accession, Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac told the Vecernje Novosti newspaper on Sunday (June 7th). He added that he was assured of this “during conversations with people holding the highest possible positions” in the bloc and the …