ZUBIN POTOK - Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric said Wednesday that the government had provided funds for the construction of six blocks of flats and several dozen houses in the southern Serbian province to facilitate returns of displaced Serbs and other non-Albanians. “The construction of the tower blocks and houses is underway and it shows that the Serbian government is working on the return of internally displaced people,” Djuric said in the village of Jagnjenica (Zubin Potok municipality in northern KiM), where he acted on behalf of the Off

BELGRADE - The fate of 1,655 people gone missing in Kosovo during the clashes in 1998 and 1999 remains unresolved, the Working Group in charge of missing persons stated at its 38th meeting on Tuesday. In the course of ten years of its existence, the Working Group in charge of cases of persons gone missing in Kosovo managed to reduce the number of unsolved cases from 3,200 to 1,655, Chair of the Working Group Lina Milner said. She noted that the key condition for progress in solving the fate of the missing is embodied in a continuous and constructive dialogue based on humanitarian grounds, wi

BELGRADE - Speaker of People's National Assembly of Algeria Mohamed Larbi Ould Khelifa reiterated in Belgrade on Monday that Algeria believes that the Kosovo issue should be resolved within a negotiating process. As for the Kosovo issue, the position of Algeria is clear and we believe that everything should be resolved in negotiations, Khelifa said at the Serbian Assembly where he conferred with Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic. He underlined that the two countries' cooperation is already good in a number of fields, and that this trend should be continued. Both Serbia and Algeria ha

Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Secretary General Lamberto Zannier told Tanjug on Wednesday that he expects Serbia to be a constructive factor in tackling the Ukrainian crisis during its OSCE chairmanship. Serbia is a fair mediator and, as such, it will have broad support from OSCE members, Zannier said during a visit to Brussels. He said that he has already discussed Serbia's mandate, which starts after the New Year, with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic during a recent visit to Belgrade. Serbia has open channels towards both the east and the west, and that

 

BELGRADE -- Vojislav Šešelj has returned to Serbia after spending eleven and a half years in detention at the Hague Tribunal in the Netherlands.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic stated that Serbia has shown its best face concerning the visit of Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and that tensions have indeed increased but this will not jeopardise the stability, and added that the desired progress in mutual relations has not been achieved. Dacic noted, however, that the good thing is that talks are conducted and that an agreement has been achieved for Prime Minister Vucic to pay a return visit to Albania and for Rama to visit Serbia once more in December and attend the meetings between the Chinese prime minister