A delegation of U.S. senators, including George Voinovich [R-OH] and Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH], visited Belgrade on Thursday. They met with President Boris Tadić, and called for a partnership between Serbia and the U.S.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, has welcomed Serbia’s EU membership application and stressed that cooperation with the UN war crimes court, ICTY, is central to Serbia’s further progress toward the EU. Speaking about Serbia’s EU integration at a press conference in Belgrade on Thursday, Ashton said that …

The International Court of Justice, ICJ, has set a deadline of December 20, 2010, for Croatia to submit its response to Serbia’s genocide countersuit. At the same time, the ICJ set a deadline of November 2011 for Serbia to reply to Croatia’s response.