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UN Raps Serbia Over Wartime Missing Persons (Balkan Insight)

The United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances told Serbia that it was still failing to meet its international commitment to resolve the fate of missing persons from the 1990s wars.

The UN committee admonished Belgrade for not doing enough to uphold the rights of people who disappeared and their relatives, who it said “are still waiting for justice and reparations for the war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars of the 1990s”.

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UN Security Council to discuss the report on Kosovo today (Koha online)

The United Nations Security Council will discuss today during a morning session in New York the quarterly report of the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, on the developments in Kosovo. In his report, he expressed concern regarding the emigration of the population and hailed constitution of the Assembly and the government after a six-months’ vacuum and stalemate.

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Vucic: Serbia has full confidence in UN (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic received a farewell visit from Peter Due, representative of the UN Secretary General and head of the UN Office in Belgrade, the Serbian government's media relations office said in a release. Serbia highly appreciates the role of the United Nations and has full confidence in the world organization, and it therefore wants UNMIK to play a greater role in Kosovo-Metohija, Prime Minister Vucic said. The two officials agreed that regional stability was of crucial importance and Due stressed that the Serbian government and Prime Minister Vucic had

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Dacic receives farewell visit from Due (Tanjug)

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic conferred with Head of the UN Office in Belgrade Peter Due in Belgrade on Tuesday, who commended Serbia's participation in the UN peacekeeping missions. Due pointed to the fact that Serbia is among seven leading European contributors to the UN military and police forces worldwide, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released in a statement. Dacic thanked Due, who came on a farewell visit, for the cooperation to date, and underlined the importance that Serbia attaches to the UN presence in Kosovo-Metohija. Dacic reiterated that Serbia stands ready to contribu

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UN to pave way for Kosovo’s membership in UEFA? (Koha)

The Kosovo Football Federation (KFF) is expected to become a member of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) very soon through a UN resolution, an unnamed KFF official told the newspaper Sport Plus. “A resolution has been prepared at the United Nations which says that neither Serbia nor any other country should prevent Kosovo sports teams from gaining membership in international arenas”, the source said, adding that this will then enable Kosovo to join UEFA and subsequently FIFA.

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