“Serbia center point on Balkan drugs route”
By U.S. State Department Narcotics Control
Published: March 4, 2007
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department Narcotics Control Report says Serbia is transit point for drugs smuggling in the region. Read More...
"Serbia unlikely to influence Kosova settlement"
By AP
Published: March 4, 2007
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BELGRADE -- Serbia’s negotiators cannot change the essence of Ahtisaari’s plan for Kosova, Dušan Batakovic says. Read More...
Poland supports Ahtisaari’s plan for Kosova
By AP
Published: March 2, 2007
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WARSAW -- Poland shifts position in favor of Ahtisaari’s plan for Kosova calling on Serbia to face reality and focus on EU integration. Read More...
Iran, Serbia discuss "cooperation"!
By Irna
Published: March 1, 2007
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BELGRADE -- Iran and Serbia Tuesday night discussed “avenues for bolstering trade and other areas of economic cooperation.” Read More...
Four Serbs detained in connection with the 1999 killings of three U.S. citizens
By AP
Published: February 28, 2007
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BELGRADE -- Four new suspects have been detained in connection with the 1999 killings of three U.S. citizens of Kosova origins. Read More...
Belgian FM: We'll block EU shift on Serbia
By Reuters
Published: February 28, 2007
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BRUSSELS -- Karel de Gucht said his country would work to block any of the EU states’ move to soften their position on Serbia. Read More...
Ahtisaari’s proposal would effectively grant Kosova independence
By The New York Times
Published: February 27, 2007
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Earlier this month, a United Nations envoy, Martti Ahtisaari, presented a sensible plan for the future of Kosova. The small Serbian province has been administered by the United Nations since 1999, when NATO went to war to defend its ethnic Albanian majority. Read More...
Serbs failed to prevent Genocide in Bosnia, court rules
By Los Angeles Times
Published: February 27, 2007
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BERLIN – The United Nations’ highest court ruled Monday that Serbia failed to prevent the massacre of Muslims during the Bosnian war but was not directly responsible for the atrocities, ending a landmark case in which an entire nation was tried for committing genocide. Read More...
Serb Radicals: Quit UN if Kosova gains independence
By AP
Published: February 23, 2007
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BELGRADE -- The Serbian Radical Party says Serbia should give up its EU plans and leave the UN if Kosova becomes independent. Read More...
World Court to decide if Serbia responsible for genocide
By UN
Published: February 23, 2007
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Should the entire Serbian nation - not just its presidents, generals, and soldiers - be held responsible for humanity's worst crime? for the slaughter, terrorising, rape and displacement of Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s. Read More...
Amnesty International calls for full transparency in UNMIK inquiry into deaths of Mon Balaj and Arbën Xheladini
By Sweden-Kosov@ Friendship Union
Published: February 23, 2007
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Amnesty International is calling for full transparency in the conduct of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) police inquiry into the killing of Kosovo Albanians Mon Balaj and Arbën Xheladini during a demonstration on 10 February 2007, called by the NGO Vetëvendosje (Self Determination). Read More...
Europe awaits birth of a new country
By The Guardian
Published: February 20, 2007
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Kosova and Monaco have next to nothing in common. But every time you make a mobile phone call to the majority Albanian province in the southern Balkans you use the +377 international prefix for the millionaires' playground on the Riviera. Read More...
Serbia lines up wholesale rejection of Kosova plan
By Matt Robinson Reuters
Published: February 20, 2007
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia will reject every element of a U.N. plan for Kosova that points to the creation of "another Albanian state" during final talks beginning on Wednesday in Vienna, a senior Serbian official said. Read More...
Serbia’s road toward EU leads through Kosova’s status
By DPA
Published: February 13, 2007
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BRUSSELS - This is the message the EU foreign ministers sent from their meeting in Brussels today, after a discussion that centered on Serbia’s European future and Kosovo’s status. Read More...
EU in Kosova must learn from Bosnia mistakes
By Reuters
Published: February 13, 2007
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BERLIN -- The European Union mission in Kosova must avoid a heavy-handed approach, a think-tank warned on Monday. Read More...
Despite unresolved status, Kosova makes strides towards integration
By Bekim Greiçevci for Southeast European Times
Published: February 10, 2007
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Despite its unresolved final status after being a UN protectorate for almost seven years, Kosova has made some steps towards fulfilling EU accession criteria. The desire to become an EU member is shared by all of the ethnic groups there. Read More...
UN envoy to present finalized proposal on Kosova in March
By APP
Published: February 10, 2007
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UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 10 (APP) -- UN Special Envoy for Kosova Martti Ahtisaari says he expects to present his final proposal on the future status for the Albanian-majority Serbian province to the UN Security Council by the end of March. Read More...
Why full Independence on Kosova?
By Mehdi Hyseni
Published: February 6, 2007
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All of the international actors (USA, UN, EU, NATO, Contact Group) involved in settlement of Kosova’s status, morally and legally are obliged to take into account valid and objective arguments according to historical and juridical rights of both parts (Serbian and Albanian) in conflict. Read More...
Kosova deadline stands, says UN envoy
By Financial Times
Published: February 6, 2007
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Martti Ahtisaari, United Nations envoy for the Kosova talks, yesterday insisted he would stick to his deadline and put his plan for supervised independence for the troubled province to the UN Security Council at the end of the month. Read More...
Macedonia backs Kosova blueprint, defying Serbia
By Reuters
Published: February 4, 2007
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SKOPJE, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Macedonia on Saturday backed a U.N. draft plan to set the breakaway Kosova province on the path to independence, openly defying its northern neighbour Serbia. Read More...
Serbian Jews protest restitution policy
By AP
Published: February 4, 2007
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NOVI SAD -- Serbia is the only country in Europe that has not ensured the restitution of stolen Jewish property. Read More...
Special package: Kosova Final Status
By UNOSEC
Published: February 2, 2007
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Key section of UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari's Kosova final status proposal, dealing with the political settlement for the entity. The principal elements of this excerpt of the 60-page document, which includes annexes, are as follows: Read More...
Has anyone asked the Albanians whether they approve of the Plan?
By IllyriaPress
Published: February 1, 2007
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Most of the details from Ahtisaari proposal are yet to be known, but what do you make of what has been leaked until now in the press? Does it seem more on the cautious side in order to appease the Russians and make it easier for the Serbs than to meet the strong expectations of the Albanians or is it the other way around? Read More...
Final act in the fate of Kosova begins
By The Financial Times
Published: February 1, 2007
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Eight years after a war that pitted Nato against Slobodan Milosevic's regime in Belgrade, the endgame for Kosova has begun. The strategy of the west is now clear: a United Nations resolution to put Kosova under the tutelage of the European Union and recognition of its independence soon after. Read More...
Del Ponte: EU to put integration talks with Serbia on hold until Belgrade arrests Mladic
By AP
Published: February 1, 2007
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HAGUE -- Del Ponte calls on the European Union to put integration talks with Serbia on hold until Belgrade arrests Mladic. Read More...
Serbia's nationalists have to see the game is lost.
By The Guardian
Published: January 29, 2007
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Post-bombing western guilt is making things worse in the Balkans. Serbia's nationalists have to see the game is lost. Read More...
Miloševic’s man is back
By Neil MacDonald
Published: January 29, 2007
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Ljubinko Nikolic, a controversial senior police inspector as part of moves to reappoint loyalists from the former regime of Slobodan Milosevic in the police and judiciary. Read More...
Kosova Wins Support For Split From Serbia
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Published: January 26, 2007
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Nearly eight years after NATO warplanes intervened in a bitter ethnic conflict between Serbs and rebellious Kosova Albanians in the former Yugoslavia, the United States and its European allies have agreed to support Kosova's permanent secession from Serbia under continuing international supervision, according to senior U.S. and European officials. Read More...
UN proposal lets Kosova access world bodies - Monitored Independence
By Reuters
Published: January 24, 2007
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PRISHTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - A U.N. proposal on the future of Kosova to be presented on Friday recommends the breakaway Serbian province be granted the right to join international bodies, political and diplomatic sources said. Read More...
Radicals shock winners in Serbia
By CNN
Published: January 24, 2007
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Serbia's ultra-nationalist Radicals won the most votes in the country's parliamentary election, but several pro-democratic groups collected enough seats to form a new government if they can settle their differences, according to official results Monday. Read More...
Kosova Albanians await Ahtisaari's proposal
By AP
Published: January 22, 2007
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PRISHTINA -- Uncertainty, disappointment prevail as Kosova's Albanians await U.N. status proposal. Read More...
Nothing New in Serbia, Ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party lead
By Associated Press
Published: January 22, 2007
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According to RIK, the Serb Radical Party (SRS) has won 27.06 percent of votes, the Democratic Party (DS) 22.59 percent, Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS-NS) 16.5 percent, G17 plus 7.12 percent, LDP-SDU-GSS-LSV 5.47 percent, Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) 3.57 percent. Read More...
SERBIA: "We would never join Nato, We wants closer ties with Russia, China and the Arab world".
By Alex Spillius
Published: January 22, 2007
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Serbia's most famous pop star sang one of her biggest hits for the prime minister on stage at the weekend. It was called Be Careful Who You Sleep With, which is good advice generally but particularly in Serbian politics. Read More...
Serbs dark story is continuing, The ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) of Vojislav Seselj won the poll
By BBC News
Published: January 22, 2007
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BELGRADE, Serbia: Serbian ultranationalist Radicals won most votes in Serbia's parliamentary election on Sunday. Read More...
U.S. pushing for quick Kosova resolution
By AP
Published: January 20, 2007
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government is pushing for a quick resolution on Kosova's final status following the release of a UN proposal. Read More...
Albanian Family Who Hid 26 Jews in Albania from the Nazis Honored by ADL
By ADL
Published: January 20, 2007
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New York, NY, January 18, 2007… Albanian family who saved 26 Jews from the Nazis and led them to safety in the mountains of Central Albania was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) with its Courage to Care Award. Read More...
Serbia - How Belgrade "educates" its students
By Koha Ditore
Published: January 19, 2007
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The Students Independent Association of the Judicial Faculty of Belgrade has begun an initiative for Serbia to give Kosova to Russia for the price of one Euro for 99 years. Read More...
"Serbia Elections" - Nearly 400,000 Serbia Gypsies have no ID!
By UPI
Published: January 19, 2007
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BELGRADE, Serbia, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Nearly 400,000 of Serbia's Gypsies have no identification documents and therefore local authorities treat them as nonexistent, a minority center said Friday. Read More...
Resolution calling on the United States to support the independence of Kosova!
By Internet News Bureau
Published: January 17, 2007
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Representatives Lantos and Ros-Lehtinen Introduce H.Res. 36 in Support of the Independence of Kosova in the 110th Congress Read More...
EU: Limited independence for Kosova
By UPI
Published: January 16, 2007
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VIENNA -- Wolfgang Petritsch says Serbia Kosova will be given EU-administered limited independence. Read More...
Decision on Kosova's future expected early February
By EuroNews
Published: January 16, 2007
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The EU foreign policy chief says the UN envoy for Kosova is likely to present in early February his decision on whether the province should become independent from Serbia. Read More...
Jovanovic: I would sign independence
By AP
Published: January 14, 2007
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BELGRADE -- Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) leader Cedomir Jovanovic says he would “sign Kosova’s independence”. Read More...
Independence for Kosova
By The Wall Street Journal
Published: January 14, 2007
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Prishtina -- Just as it seemed that the Balkans were finally turning the corner, we are instead entering another period of stagnation, delay and uncertainty. Read More...
Countries who support Kosova Independence
By The American council for Kosova
Published: January 14, 2007
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Serb mafia involved in cocaine smuggling intercepted in Macedonia
By MakfaxOnline
Published: January 14, 2007
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Macedonian court ordered a 30-day detention in absentia for Stanislava Poletan (Chochorvska), suspected of having orchestrated the transport of 486 kilos of cocaine seized at Blace border crossing. Read More...
War crime suspects 'living in Australia'
By The Sydnay Morning Herald
Published: January 14, 2007
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Suspected war criminals linked to atrocities in Europe are living freely in Australia because authorities refuse to track them down, war crimes experts say. Read More...
Everything is ready for the opening of Kosova’s office in Brussels, except its representative
By KosovaLive
Published: January 14, 2007
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The entire infrastructure for the opening of the diplomatic office of Kosova in Brussels is prepared, including the payment of the rented facility, except the appointment of the Kosovar ‘ambassador’ in Belgium. Read More...
Serbia: Adventist Church Burned
By APD/ANN
Published: January 13, 2007
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The vandalism of a small Seventh-day Adventist village church in the province Vojvodina... Read More...
The "New Serbian Formula"
By Mehdi Hyseni
Published: January 12, 2007
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As long as official Belgrade is continuing the great Serbian and genocidal politics of previous anti-democratic, uncivilized, anti-Albanian, anti-European and anti-American regime of the criminal-in-chief, Slobodan Miloshevic and today's Kostunicas statement that "Kosova is integral part of Serbia’s territory",... Read More...
Speculation mounts over Ahtisaari's recommendations for Kosova status
By Blerta Foniqi-Kabashi
Published: January 10, 2007
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UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari's office says his proposal for Kosova's future will be ready by January 21st, the date of elections in Serbia. Read More...
Serbians arrested in Paris for trafficking explosives
By AFP
Published: January 10, 2007
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Two Serbian nationals have been arrested in Paris for trafficking military explosives for use in organised crime, sources close to the investigation said on Tuesday. Read More...
The Serbian Radical's strongest single Party , whose leader, Vojislav Seselj standing trial for genocide in the Hague
By AKI
Published: January 9, 2007
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Belgrade, (AKI) - No less than 20 political parties and coalitions will be running in Serbia's 21 January general election in which the breakway province of Kosova will be a key issue. Read More...
SERBIA - FIRE SET TO ADVENTIST CHURCH
By AP
Published: January 8, 2007
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Sombor -- The Temple of the Adventist Church was set on fire in a village near Sombor early this morning. Read More...
Angela Merkel the wish of the Kosovars for more independence be satisfied
By ZDF
Published: January 8, 2007
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"It is important that, on one side, the wish of the Kosovars for more independence be satisfied — but not at the price that we then have troubled situations in Serbia and democracy there is weakened," Read More...
There’s no need for further negotiations with Belgrade
By AP
Published: January 6, 2007
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Prishtina -- The Albanian negotiating team claims that There’s no need for further negotiations with Belgarde after Ahtisaari reveals his proposal. Read More...
Adroit diplomacy to secure Kosova’s independence could yield a victory for democracy
By Joseph Biden
Published: January 6, 2007
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Years of hand-wringing and chest-thumping over the future status of Kosova may finally be drawing to a close. In the next few months, adroit diplomacy to secure Kosova’s independence could yield a victory for democracy, a better future for south-east Europe and validation for the judicious use of American power. Read More...
Moderated Serbian Minister in Kosova threatened by a fanatic Serb
By B92
Published: January 3, 2007
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PRISHTINA -- The Kosova Police Service confirmed that the Kosova Return Minister received threats on Tuesday. Read More...
Serbia - Corruption absorbs 20% of GDP
By Beta
Published: January 4, 2007
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Serbias Deputy District Attorney says district attorney offices are inefficient and politicians often fail to submit data on corruption. Read More...
Liberal-Democrats on new Serbias Gendarmerie commander
By AP
Published: December 23, 2006
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BELGRADE -- The LDP has today criticized the appointment of the new Gendarmerie security chief. Read More...
Vojvodina statute discussion after elections
By AP
Published: December 23, 2006
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NOVI SAD -- Bojan Pajtic says Vojvodina’s new statute will be decided on after the parliamentary elections. Read More...
At first, International Recognation of independence of Kosova, then stabilization via Multiethnic Standards
By Mehdi Hyseni
Published: December 23, 2006
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This question is still opened, and after all what is progressive process done in Kosova during seven years under international peace-keeping forces of the United Nations(UNMIK+KFOR). Read More...
Serbian PM Koštunica: EU talks would have solved Hague issue
By AP
Published: December 23, 2006
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BELGRADE -- The PM says that had the EU not suspended negotiations with Serbia, the Hague issue would’ve been solved. Read More...
Serbian Radicals’ leader: We will win
By AP
Published: December 23, 2006
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BELGRADE -- Tomislav Nikolic says his Serb Radical Party (SRS) will secure a convincing win in the coming vote and form the next government. Read More...
Jovanovic - Kosova according to the will of its citizens
By AP
Published: December 19, 2006
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SERBIA -- Èedomir Jovanovic said that Kosova’s status must reflect the realistic situation of its population. Read More...
Serbia's president Tadic: Radical and Socialist policy of lies unacceptable
By AP
Published: December 19, 2006
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BELGRADE, VRBAS, SOMBOR -- The president says politicians and institutions must tell citizens the truth and behave responsibly. Read More...
Serbia - Evangelist church attacked
By Beta
Published: December 19, 2006
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KRALJEVO -- An unidentified attacker threw a Molotov cocktail late last night at an Evangelist church in Kraljevo. Read More...
Polt: Now is a time to face the Kosova solution
By Vecernje novosti
Published: December 19, 2006
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BELGRADE -- U.S. ambassador to Serbia Michael Polt says the January elections are as important as October 5, 2000. Read More...
Miloševic said to Naumann "Serbia will gather all the Albanians in one place and kill them".
By SENSE
Published: December 15, 2006
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THE HAGUE -- Klaus Naumann testified Miloševic said in October 1998 he would use the Drenica model in an effort to solve the Kosova problem. Read More...
Kosova's Independence Depends on United States, not Russia
By Mehdi Hyseni
Published: December 13, 2006
Despite the potentially negative impact of Russian support for Serbia's anti-Albanian and anti-democratic policy, Albanian policy and diplomacy must not give up on the option of full independence for Kosova [Kosova]. Read More...
Cedomir Jovanovic: Kosova has been “independent for years”
By AP
Published: December 12, 2006
JAGODINA -- Cedomir Jovanovic said that Serbia’s politics have lost in the process for solving Kosova’s status. Read More...
Serbian President Boris Tadic - Kosova independence more likely
By AP
Published: December 11, 2006
BELGRADE -- Serbian President Boris Tadic said that at this moment, Kosova independence is a likely scenario. Read More...
Unresolved status holds Kosova back, says UNMIK official
By AP
Published: December 10, 2006
PRISHTINA -- UNMIK deputy chief Steven Schook said the province's unresolved political status is limiting progress. Read More...
Serbian Lider Seselj indictment depicts violent hate-monger
By Douglas Hamilton
Published: December 10, 2006
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbian ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj, who the U.N. war crimes tribunal said on Friday had ended a hunger strike over demands for his "human rights", is no advocate of rights for non-Serbs, his indictment says. Read More...
Albanians abused in Serbian prison Nis
By AP
Published: December 6, 2006
VRANJE - Serbian President Boris Tadiæ received a letter pointing out torture and abuse of Albanian prisoners. Read More...
Albanian Catholic Victims of Serbian Imperialism
By Illyria newspaper – New York
Published: December 4, 2006
On August 9, 2006, a Kosovar Albanian Catholic woman, Lizane Malaj, appeared as a witness before the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia in The Hague , in the trial of five Serbian nationalist and Yugoslav leaders, Milan Milutinovic, Nikola Sainovic, Nebojsa Pavkovic, Sreten Lukic, Dragoljub Ojdanic and Vladimir Lazarevic. Read More...
Serbia: Witness "ordered" to cover up killings by Serbian Police in Kosova
By IWPR
Published: December 3, 2006
THE HAGUE -- Ex interior minister and deputy allegedly wanted evidence of Kosova civilians found dead in refrigerated truck destroyed. Read More...
EU conditions to Serbia remain unwavering
By AP
Published: December 1, 2006
BRUSSELS -- Olli Rehn said that the EU will not back down from its conditions enforced on Serbia’s EU discussions. Read More...
Karadžic hiding in Bosnia and Serbia
By Reuters
Published: December 1, 2006
SARAJEVO -- War crimes suspects Radovan Karadžic and Stojan Župljanin are hiding in Bosnia and Serbia, Carla del Ponte said. Read More...
Kosova fears prompt US and UK to back deeper Serbia ties
By Financial Times
Published: November 30, 2006
The US, the UK and the Netherlands yesterday staged a dramatic U-turn on Serbia, endorsing plans for deeper Nato ties with Belgrade amid fears that a coming dispute over Kosova could spin out of control. Read More...
Seselj still Serb "people's hero"
By BBC
Published: December 1, 2006
Even in Belgrade, regarded as less nationalistic than the more conservative countryside, his picture appears on trees and telegraph polls, his name written in graffitti on the walls of student buildings. Read More...
UNMIK opens Brussels office
By Albanian Land
Published: November 26, 2006
BRUSSELS, PRISHTINA -- Joachim Ruecker says that the Kosova institutions’ wish to have a Brussels office has come true. Read More...
Czech FM: We may recognize Kosova unilaterally
By AP
Published: November 26, 2006
Czech foreign minister Aleksandar Vondra told the Czech media that his country might decide to recognize Kosova’s independence even if the Serbian province decided to declare it unilaterally. Read More...
ANTI-SEMITISM IN SERBIA
By Helsinki Commitee for Human rights
Published: November 24, 2006
The exact number of Jews living in the territory of the Republic of Serbia (not including Kosova) is not known. The last official census conducted in 2002 put the number of persons declaring themselves Jews at 1,158. Read More...
Serbian PM warns NATO against recognizing Kosova
By Beijing Time
Published: November 26, 2006
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica warned NATO members on Sunday of serious consequences if they unilaterally recognize the independence of the Serbian southern province of Kosova. Read More...
The US ambassador POLT says: Serbia chooses to kill its own citizens!
By AP
Published: November 21, 2006
BELGRADE -- Michael Polt said that the status proposal will be given to both Belgrade and Prishtina several days after the elections. Read More...
Serbian PM Koštunica teams up with former ARKAN ally
By B92
Published: November 21, 2006
BELGRADE -- DSS will enter a coalition with United Serbia, despite that party’s leader’s panegyrics for Željko Ražnatovic Arkan. Read More...
Serbia's genocide: Many victims remain unidentified
By Beta
Published: November 21, 2006
BELGRADE -- The Serbian Government’s Missing Persons Commission will exhume 63 unidentified persons by November 30. Read More...
Great Britain’s ambassador to Serbia -- Serbia needs a democratic government
By AP
Published: November 22, 2006
BELGRADE -- Great Britain’s ambassador to Serbia David Gowen said that he expects Serbia to receive a strong, democratic government. Read More...
Serbia's: "Dirty campaigning" begins
By B92
Published: November 22, 2006
BELGRADE -- Branislav Ristivojevic said, regarding the "falsified memorandum" scandal, that his party "will not be dragged through the mud." Read More...
Ruecker: UNMIK out of Kosova by next year
By ANA-MPA
Published: November 19, 2006
PRISHTINA -- is says that the Kosova status proposal would be "something that should be acceptable to both sides". Read More...
No More Delays for Kosova
By The New York Times
Published: November 18, 2006
For the past seven years, the tiny Balkan region of Kosova has been in limbo. Administered by the United Nations, it is not an independent state. But it is no longer a province of Serbia. Read More...
Moscow daily: Çeku welcome irrespective of Serbia
By Moscow daily Kommersant
Published: November 19, 2006
Moscow -- Russia’s foreign ministry has confirmed that Kosova PM Agim Çeku will arrive in Moscow in late November. Read More...
Thaçi say status decision has been made
Moscow daily: Çeku welcome irrespective of Serbia
By Moscow daily Kommersant
Published: November 19, 2006
Moscow -- Russia’s foreign ministry has confirmed that Kosova PM Agim Çeku will arrive in Moscow in late November. Read More...
Carl Bildt: Kosova was given to the United Nations by Milošević by de facto
By AP
Published: November 17, 2006
BELGRADE -- Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said that Kosova was given to the United Nations by Miloševic by de facto Read More...
Serbian President Tadic: Kosova closer to independence
By Associated Press
Published: November 16, 2006
BELGRADE -- Serbian president Boris Tadic says Kosova is at this time "closer to independence than to essential autonomy". Read More...
NATO: No Partnership for Peace invitation for Serbia
By Reuters
Published: November 17, 2006
BRUSSELS -- NATO is set to disappoint three Balkans countries that were hoping to take the first step towards membership. Read More...
Caucasus, the homeland of the Serbs
By Lazar Šebek
Published: November 15, 2006
The original Serboi were probably Sarmatian (Iranian) tribe, who lived in Eastern Europe (Sarmatia Asiatica), to the north of the Caucasus. The earliest historical records about these Sarmatian Serbs dates from the 1st century, in the works of the historian Tacitus (ca. 50 AD) and geographer Pliny (Plinius) (69-75 AD). Read More...
Battle of Kosova - Serbian Mit
By Goodwin, Jason
Published: November 15, 2006
One year later, faced with a Hungarian threat from the North, the Serbs agreed to become his vassals and he took as a wife Olivera, the daughter of Prince Lazar of Serbia, allying himself with Serbs and enabling his offspring to claim Serbia as a dynastic privilege. Read More...
Europe: Remove Ambiguities from Serbian Constitution
By AP
Published: November 13, 2006
The director general of the European Commission's Enlargement Directorate, Michael Leigh, said in Belgrade on Nov. 10 that the European Commission welcomes the new Serbian Constitution and the calling of elections but that a certain vagueness and ambiguity should be removed from Serbia's supreme legal act. Read More...
Wisner: Solution by end of January
By RT21
Published: November 13, 2006
PRISHTINA -- U.S. Kosova envoy Frank Wisner said Martti Ahtisaari will reveal his status proposal by the end of January next year. Read More...
Dulic-Markovic: Serbia must urgently change
By AP
Published: November 12, 2006
BELGRADE -- G17 Plus senior council will today decide whether that party will take part in the elections individually or as part of a coalition. Read More...
Restitution Law and Historical Facts
By Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia (HCHRS)
Published: November 13, 2006
This is exactly what the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia wants Minister Draskovic to tell public why he did not promise his Israeli hosts that the crimes Milan Nedic’s collaborative government committed against Jews in Serbia in the period 1941-44... Read More...
EVIDENCE - The War in Kosova
By Save Kosova
Published: November 14, 2006
In the last war in Kosova, the Serbian Criminal State killed around 14,000 Albanian people. Near 90% of them were unarmed civilians. The defenseless. Mainly children, women and old-aged men. Around 3.000 people were kidnapped and are still missing. Read More...
Talk gets tougher as Serbia battles loss of Kosova
By Washington Post
Published: November 7, 2006
BELGRADE (Reuters) - With a general election around the corner, the Serbian government on Monday waded deeper into a diplomatic battle to block Western moves to grant independence to its breakaway province of Kosova. Read More...
What the Serbian Radicals really think: Nikolic: "we won’t cooperate with the whole world……."
By Driton Vushtria
Published: November 6, 2006
BELGRADE -- Radicals' statement that ties with Montenegro should be broken due to Ceku’s visit are seen as political marketing by other parties. Read More...
Kosova may soon become Europe's newest independent nation. But it will be a painful birth, especially in Belgrade.
By Michael Meyer
Published: November 6, 2006
Opinion: Dealing With Serbia
Nov. 6, 2006 issue - Serbia is crafting a new constitution, and a troubling document it is. The preamble establishes Cyrillic as the nation's official alphabet, notwithstanding substantial minorities of Albanians, Hungarians and Muslims. Read More...
Wisner: Delaying Kosova solution serves nobody's interest
By B92
Published: November 6, 2006
Kosova in 1999 was defined under UN Security Council resolution 1244 as an issue that would become responsibility of the international community to settle. It is from that authority that the United Nations has organized president Ahtisaari’s negotiations, with the support of the Contact Group. It is from the authority of 1244 which is derived from the Security Council, that the decision on the future status of Kosova will be reached. Read More...
Serbian Prime Minister Koštunica warns Montenegrin government
By AP
Published: November 5, 2006
PRISHTINA -- Serbian PM has warned Podgorica that the UN Charter obligates it to honor Serbia’s sovereignty. "In her entire history Montenegro was never Serbia’s enemy. And since it came into existence, Serbia has never done any wrong to Montenegro", Koštunica was quoted as saying. Read More...
Despite its last-minute manoeuvring, Serbia now seems certain to lose Kosova
By The Economist
Published: November 4, 2006
WHAT you see is not always what you get. Serbia has a new constitution stating that Kosova is an inalienable part of the country. Serb leaders told their people that, if they voted for the constitution in a referendum on October 28-29th, it would speed their entrance into the European Union. But as Danas, a Serbian daily, noted tartly, “They promised a Kosova in Serbia and a Serbia in Europe. Read More...
Kosova May Soon Be Free of Serbia, but Not of Supervision
By The New York Times
Published: November 2, 2006
PRISHTINA, Kosova, — In the next few months, Kosova is likely to win independence from Serbia, concluding a titanic struggle by the United Nations and Western governments to close a chapter that began with ethnic warfare there. Read More...
Kosova got the clearest signs yet on Tuesday that independence is coming
By Reuters
Published: November 2, 2006
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Kosova got the clearest signs yet on Tuesday that independence is coming, but the United States and the European Union seemed divided on whether to delay a U.N. decision so that Serbia can hold an election first. Read More...
Del Ponte - Serbia "removed from the European values"-"relative concepts, rather than absolute values".
By AP
Published: October 30, 2006
TALLINN -- Carla Del Ponte says Serbia is far from the European values as truth and justice are relative concepts in the country. Read More...
Serbia's Referendum - A shadow with a huge influence
By NIN
Published: October 30, 2006
NIN weekly journalist Dragan Bujoševic told B92 that he is not sure Serbia has solved any of its problems by accepting a new constitution. Read More...
Serbia Today - Organized irregularities and planned abuse
By AP
Published: October 30, 2006
The most vociferous criticism of the constitutional referendum came from the Liberal Democrats’ leader Cedomir Jovanovic. His party, LDP, claims that the referendum failed since only 49.7 percent of voters took part, at the same time pointing to “organized irregularities and planned abuse" Read More...
Kosova can't wait
By Shirley Cloyes and Joe DioGuardi
Published: October 29, 2006
Suggestions that a vote on the U.N. resolution on Kosova's independence will be postponed are deeply troubling. There are two million Kosovar Albanians who demand delivery on the West’s promise of freedom and self-determination. Read More...
London pushes for 2006 Kosova Status SolutionBy AP
Published: October 28, 2006
PRISHTINA -- British diplomats stated that the final status of Kosova is important because it will secure guarantees for minorities. Read More...
The international community has condemned in strong terms Serb's from KosovaBy AP
Published: October 28, 2006
BELGRADE -- The international community has condemned in strong terms a Kosovska Mitrovica rally where participants chanted Mladic’s name. Read More...
Germany will continue to have the Balkans in the focus of its foreign policy and especially Kosova
By Koha Ditore
Published: October 27, 2006
Koha Ditore reports in the leading front-page story that Germany will continue to have the Balkans in the focus of its foreign policy and especially Kosova now that the latter has entered the final phase of the future status. Read More...
Serbian Former military chief under investigation
By FoNet
Published: October 26, 2006
BELGRADE -- According to daily Politika, Aco Tomic is suspected of having helped in the hiding of Ratko Mladic. Read More...
Wisner: We are almost at the end of the road reaching a decision to fundamentally influence Kosova’s future
By BBC
Published: October 25, 2006
PRISHTINA -- U.S. favor Kosova solution to be reached by the end of the year, Serbian elections won't influence the process. Read More...
Absurdity of an Aggressive Propaganda Policy
By Murat Blaku Ph.D.
Published: October 20, 2006
As the conclusion of the political process that will decide on the fate of Kosova is approaching, any average observer is able to notice that Belgrade official propaganda is becoming more and more arrogant, irrational and hysterical. Read More...