"Nothing found at suspected mass grave site" (B92)
PRIŠTINA, BELGRADE -- The search of a location in the Piskote village near Đakovica has been concluded with no result, a Priština official has said.
Families of kidnapped Serbs hope to learn about their fate (B92)
An association gathering families of Serb victims in Kosovo said it hoped that an investigation of a suspected mass grave will yield "concrete results."
The Association of the Families of 1998-2000 Kosovo Victims warned at the same time that last year only nine people were identified from a long list of kidnapped Serbs, and this year none.
They hope that the probe announced on Monday by the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution and the EULEX Prosecution of a site in the village of Piskote "will give concrete results."
"The families of Serb victims, as well as the families of all victims in t
Mass grave of Kosovo Serbs in Djakovica/Gjakove? (B92, Blic)
The Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of Serbia and EULEX will verify information on the existence of a mass grave of Serbian victims in the village Piskota in Gjakove/Gjakovica municipality, the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor in Belgrade announced today.
According to the press release, it is suspected that the grave contains the bodies of people killed during the armed conflict in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999.
The Serbian prosecution has information that the location could possibly contain the remains of victims of KLA crimes in the "Likovci" prison camp.
EULEX Prosecution has ordered th
Serbia could reconcile EU and Russia (Danas, B92)
Serbia's OSCE chairmanship next year will be "a great opportunity to take on a role and mediate in negotiations in order to smooth EU-Russia relations."
"Serbia must use the opportunity so that an easy solution is found, so that NATO would not have to become involved in it," the Belgrade-based daily Danas is quoting Dušan Siđanski, a special adviser to the president of the European Commission, who was in Serbia for the Belgrade Security Forum.
According to the newspaper, he added that it was "a big mistake" when Europe imposed sanctions on Russia - "because they represent sanctio
"Kosovo has opened the law of the jungle"(B92)
“Spain is deeply convinced that the support of the United States and other countries for the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo is a huge mistake,” said Charge d'Affaires of the Embassy of Spain in Belgrade, Inigo Ramirez de Aro Valdes, noting that Catalan separatism is not supported.
Ramirez de Aro said that the Catalan separatism has no international support, because "recognition of unilateral declarations causes global chaos and a map of the world turns into a pointless war pattern".
When asked whether Serbia should recognize unilaterally declared formation, in order to progre
First chapter to open before end of 2014 (B92,Tanjug,Blic)
Jadranka Joksimovic expressed the belief on Thursday that Serbia will open the first negotiating chapter by the end of the year.
Serbs in Bosnia "closely watching" Scottish referendum (B92/Tanjug)
Bosnian Serbs are "closely watching Scotland's independence referendum," the French agency AFP is reporting on Monday.
The Serbian List requests postponement of the constitutive session (Beta/B92)
The Serbian List will request the postponement of the continuation of the constitutive session of Kosovo Assembly, which is due on Friday, said Marko Djuric, Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija. “We want the Serbian List to participate in the (Kosovo) government which should be oriented toward the dialogue (with Belgrade),” Djuric said to journalist at the Palace of Serbia after the meeting with the delegation of the Committee for Enlargement of the European Council (CEOLA), and added that such government would have support of Be
EU appoints commissioner for neighborhood policy (B92)
BRUSSELS -- Johannes Hahn has been appointed as EU's commissioner for neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations.
"Agreements with Priština are not interstate" (RTS,Blic,Politika,B92)
BELGRADE -- The government's office for media relations has announced that Serbia would not sign any interstate agreement with Priština.