The Court of Appeals in Priština has rejected an appeal filed against a decision to keep Oliver Ivanović in prison, his party, GI SDP, announced on Thursday.

The court rejected the appeal three weeks after it was submitted, although there was a deadline of 48 hours, a statement noted, and added:

"This shows that Kosovo courts are not interested in the rights of the accused, or in what the appeal said, because they already have their decision."

VIENNA - During its chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) next year, Serbia will use experience to offer contribution to stability and peace in the world, Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said at the meeting of the OSCE’s Permanent Council in Vienna Tuesday.

Lessons from the past show that sustainable solutions can only be achieved through dialogue, Dacic said while presenting the priorities of Serbia's OSCE chairmanship in 2015.

BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbia's first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, said on Monday in a meeting with Head of EULEX Mission in Kosovo-Metohija Bernd Borchardt that the presence of that and other international actors in Kosovo, such as UNMIK and KFOR, is a guarantor of Serbs' survival in Kosovo-Metohija.

Dacic told Borchardt that Serbia expects EULEX to continue conducting its activities in the same scope of jurisdiction in the next two years, reads a release issued by the ministry of foreign affairs.

PRISTINA – A panel of judges at the Basic Court in Pristina has begun the trial of Naser Keljmendi, charged by the Kosovo Special Prosecution Office with four crimes related to international drug trafficking and the murder of Ramiz Delilalic, a Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) citizen.

Earlier this month, the Kosovo Special Prosecution Office filed an indictment against Keljmendi over several criminal offenses, including involvement in organized crime and managing organized crime groups.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A several concrete blocks with a sign saying KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) Square have been placed in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, along the road leading to the multiethnic village of Suvi Do.

According to a Tanjug correspondent from the spot, the sign saying KLA Square (Sheshi UCK in Albanian) and an Albanian flag were placed at an intersection leading to Suvi Do on Thursday evening.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric announced that indictments against over 40 war crime suspects in cases Istok, Strpce and Srebrenica would be raised in the next few months.

The Serbian Prosecutor's Office has been working on the cases for three years now as these are very demanding procedures and cannot be completed within short periods of time like regular cases, Vekaric said on Tuesday at a gathering focusing on the war crime trials in Serbia in 2013.

BELGRADE - Excavations should continue next week at two slopes of a hill near the Rudnica quarry in southern Serbia, a site suspected of holding bodies of ethnic Albanians missing from the 1999 Kosovo-Metohija conflict.

  The Administrative Office for Northern Mitrovica will be integrated into new municipal administration set up after the previous local elections, Office Head Adrijana Hodzic stated.

“The Administrative Office is the cornerstone for the future municipality of Northern Mitrovica. There is a system, there is staff and all employees will be transferred to the municipality of Northern Mitrovica,” Hodzic said in a programme 'Slobodno Srpski' (Speak Serbian freely) broadcast by the Serb TV network in Kosovo-Metohija.

Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will attend a two-day meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York starting on Monday and inform the members of the council about the extent of the damage caused by the May floods in Serbia and also invite them to take part in the donor conference in Brussels on July 16.