Oliver Ivanovic was yesterday handed a new decision on remand in custody for another two months. CI SDP leader, who has been in custody since 27 January, was accused by the Kosovo authorities and EULEX prosecutor of war crimes committed in 1999 and 2000, for which Ivanovic pleaded not guilty.

Former US diplomat Gerard Gallucci, who was the regional head of UNMIK in Mitrovica, said that he, at the time when he was the UN representative in this city, considered Oliver Ivanovic "a person committed to protect the Serbian community in Kosovo - but by political means, not violence".

Serbian Minister for Sport and Youth Vanja Udovicic yesterday voiced hope that International Olympic Committee (IOC) will review once more its decision to grant a provisional membership in the IOC to Kosovo and open the path for the unilaterally declared state to participate at Olympic Games in Rio 2016.

TIRANA -- "The sooner Serbia formally recognizes that Kosovo will never again be its part, the better for Serbia and the region," says Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.

In an interview for the AP, he added that he "firmly felt and believed" that "they have already recognized it without saying so."

Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in early 2008 unilaterally declared independence, but Serbia rejected the proclamation as a violation of its territorial integrity and sovereignty.

VIENNA -- OSCE Media Freedom Representative Dunja Mijatović has called on authorities in Albania, Bosnia and Serbia to investigate all hacker attacks on media websites.

The attacks "represent a clear danger to media freedom," a statement said on Tuesday.

“We have seen malicious denial of service attacks recently that obstruct the lawful activity of journalists. They must be investigated by law enforcement agencies of all countries,” Mijatović said.

BELGRADE - Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport said on Wednesday the EU expected full implementation of the Brussels agreement in the next year and a new momentum to the political talks between Belgrade and Pristina to come as soon as possible in order to achieve further progress in the normalisation of their relations.

Significant effort has been invested to achieve the goal defined by the European Council as comperhensive normalisation, he told a news conference after the European Commission had presented its report on Serbia's progress.

EULEX experts and staff of the Department of Forensic Medicine in Kosovo yesterday went to the field in the village Piskota, near Djakovica, to verify the information on suspicion of existence of a mass grave of Serbian civilians at the site, received from the War Crimes Prosecution of Serbia.

EULEX Spokeswoman, Dragana Nikolic Solomon, in an interview with Radio Free Europe (RFE) was unable to give a comment as the investigation is on-going. 

BELGRADE - Our people and our state have a future in Kosovo, if we want the future to be sustainable, we must be united, said the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric.

"If we want the future to be sustainable, certain and strong we must all be united," said Djuric from Mitrovica, which hosts the event "Bozur Fest" organized by the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.

He said we should all often go to Kosovo, to convince ourselves of the natural beauty, historical and cultural heritage to which we can be proud of.

Dr. Yusuf Sonmez, the first accused in the case of organ trafficking in the case of Pristina clinic "Medicus", was at the airport in Tirana in 1999, where he participated in the transport of human organs from Albania to Western Europe. This is part of the testimony of cooperative witness, given to the Serbian Prosecutor's office, which was presented to international prosecutors Clint Williamson and Jonathan Ratel.

BELGRADE -- The government's office for media relations has announced that Serbia would not sign any interstate agreement with Priština.

Director of the office Milivoje Mihajlović said that "only agreements that will make life easier for citizens in Kosovo and Metohija will be initialed."

"Serbia will sign agreements on energy, telecommunications, everything that will make life easier for citizens in Kosovo. No interstate agreement will be signed, that is spin meant to raise the rating of Hashim Thaci," said Mihajlović.

Mitrovica – Leaders of the Mitrovica municipality, Ksenija Bozovic and Goran Rakic visited today Detention Unit in Mitrovica and talked with prisoners and, as stated, some of whom are in detention for years without indictment.

As stated, the purpose was to visit Serbian prisoners in Detention Unit, as well as detained Serbs accused before the EULEX justice including the CI SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic.

Bozovic and Rakic ​​wanted to get acquainted with the conditions in which are Serbian prisoners.