Kosovo's foreign minister Enver Hoxhaj said Wednesday he will attend a regional conference in Belgrade in his first such visit since the territory unilaterally seceded from Serbia in 2008. "This visit is an indicator of the normalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia as two independent and sovereign states," Hoxhaj said in a statement. While refusing to recognise the independence of its former southern province, Serbia has agreed to improve relations with Kosovo for the sake of its integration into the EU. More than 100 countries, including the United States and most EU member nati

Burning a house of Serbian returnees in village Drsnik, Klina was the latest in a series of everyday incidents in Kosovo, which followed after political scandal in the football game between teams of Serbia and Albania in Belgrade. Mostly returnees' houses south of the river are burned and slogans with threats written on their walls. The flag of Serbia was burned; Molotov cocktails and stones were thrown at the former building of the Municipal Assembly.

Regional TV stations follow the attitude of the United Nations Belgrade – Kosovo will be not be an independent state for the new regional television N1, which is the exclusive partner of CNN for the region, told Danas Jugoslav Cosic, Director of the Program for Serbia of the new regional television , which will broadcast from Belgrade, Sarajevo and Zagreb. He said the new regional TV station will treat Kosovo as the United Nations. - N1 will formally follow the UN, according to which Kosovo is not an independent state.

BELGRADE - Serbian police have solved nearly all attacks against bakeries owned by ethnic Albanians and Gorani that took place in the Vojvodina province in the past few days, detaining 11 suspects, says Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic. "Over the past two or three days, 62 people have been questioned in connection with the incidents, which occurred primarily in the territory of Vojvodina, and 11 people have been detained," Stefanovic told Pink late Monday, speaking about last week's incidents in the wake of the Serbia vs Albania soccer match, suspended due to a pitch disturbance c

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has hosted a reception for the participants of a regional conference on involvement of Western Balkan states in United Nations peacekeeping missions. Serbia will make a full contribution to the role of the United Nations in preserving peace in the world, Dacic said late Monday. "We cannot influence the creation of global policies, but we can make a contribution to preserving security and peace in the world through peacekeeping missions," Dacic said. He noted that he wants "our region to be the one that sends many people to peacekeeping mission

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said during a meeting with United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous in Belgrade on Monday that Serbia stood ready to increase its contributions to UN peacekeeping operations. Nikolic stressed the importance of UN peacekeeping forces and their contribution to the preservation of stability in the world, especially in Southeastern Europe. “The role of UNMIK in Kosovo-Metohija is extremely valuable to Serbia and we hope that the scope and mandate of the mission will remain unchanged,” said President Nikolic. S

On the occasion of a series of attacks on shops in Vojvodina owned by ethnic Albanians, today announced and a member of Parliament of Serbia, Vladeta Kostic, urging the attacks to stop. "I condemn all incidents occurring in Kosovo and Metohija, but I also condemn and those that took place in Novi Sad, Sombor, Pancevo, Becej, Subotica and in all other places in Vojvodina and Serbia and urge them to stop immediately because they damage interests of Serbia and the Serbian people especially those of us who live in Kosovo and Metohija," Kostic said. He said that he was glad that the police announ