Two years ago, there was much more room for an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, but unfortunately it was not used, Austrian diplomat Wolfgang Petritsch told BBC in Serbian, and added that it was necessary to change the format of the dialogue and proposed international conference after the elections in Kosovo and in Serbia.
NATO deputy spokesperson and the head of Press and Media Piers Cazalet told BBC in Serbian on Thursday there was no health risk from depleted uranium used in the Alliance’s bombing of former Yugoslavia during the 1998-1999 was in Kosovo.
Serbia’s media reported that the German soldiers who took part in NATO missions in the Balkans demanded compensation for their exposure to depleted uranium.
NATO bombing of the then Yugoslavia has been an embarrassing deviation which everyone is ashamed of today, John Simpson, a BBC reporter told British public broadcaster’s office in Belgrade on Wednesday.
Simson, who was covering the NATO intervention in 1999 aimed at stopping Belgrade's forces from, as they said, repression over ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, said it was “an unpleasant experience” from the beginning to the end, which “is forgotten today.”
It is your ethnicity that determines where you drink coffee in the Serbian town of Bujanovac, close to the border with Kosovo,
"Albanians and Serbs don't use the same bars," says Valon Arifi, an ethnic Albanian.
The town's population is majority Serb, but in the wider region Albanians are more numerous.
A historic moment or a proposal that would mean war? When it comes to Kosovo's putative territory swap with Serbia, it depends who you ask.
Speculation abounds that the two parties could make the concept official as early as Friday, when their presidents meet for scheduled talks in Brussels.
The idea seems simple.
Violent Albanian criminal groups have "considerable control" over drug trafficking in Great Britain.
At the same time, Serbians and Turks "dominate high volume maritime cocaine logistics."
This is according to a BBC report, published under the headline, "Albanian gangs 'controlling' UK drug trafficking market," that cited the National Crime Agency (NCA) annual assessment document.
A former rebel commander wanted by Serbia for alleged war crimes has won Kosovo's parliamentary election, preliminary results suggest.
Two weeks after the end of hostilities in Kosovo, three young Albanian-Americans who had joined the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) were arrested by Yugoslav police, tortured and killed. Eighteen years later, the conflict has been largely forgotten, but the men's youngest brother continues a lonely fight for justice.
The new train service could have been a celebration of warming relations between Serbia and Kosovo. But instead, in the words of Serbia's president, Tomislav Nikolic, it brought them to "the brink of conflict".
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Kosovan police say they have foiled a plot by so-called Islamic State (IS) to attack the Israeli football team when it visited Albania last week.