The opposition Social-Democrats (SDS) have filed a request to initiate proceedings for the removal of President Tomislav Nikolic from office. The parliamentary group of the party - led by former Serbian President Boris Tadic - said that Nikolic had violated the Constitution. The group's deputy head Janko Veselinovic told reporters on Wednesday that the request was filed because of Nikolic's comments published by the daily Politika, when he spoke about War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic's announcement he would investigate war crimes accusations presented against army chief Ljubisa Dikovi

Serbian Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said that there was "no property or economic security, or social policy" in Kosovo and Metohija. According to him, there is also "no hope things will get better." Speaking on the anniversary of the self-proclaimed independence of Kosovo, Vulin told Tanjug that "people have realized that several families rule in Kosovo, with various clans determining their destiny," and that by leaving the territory, ethnic Albanians are saying "what they think about the self-proclaimed independence." "One doesn't run away from an ordered country, from a good count

BELGRADE -- Monday marks 14 years since a Nis Express bus came under attack in Livadice, near Podujevo in Kosovo, when 12 people were killed.

MITROVICA - Marko Djuric, director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija, said on Sunday that the current and all future governments of Serbia will stand by its people in the southern province and Serbian Statehood Day will be marked in Kosovo. “Serbian Statehood Day will be celebrated in Kosovo-Metohija because Kosovo-Metohija is part of Serbia,” Djuric said at ceremony marking Statehood Day in Mitrovica. He underlined that the roots of the Serbian state stem from Kosovo. In order to become a successful, modern state, Serbia needs to cherish its roots.

BELGRADE - Branimir Stojanovic, Kosovo deputy prime minister, said on Saturday that representatives of Kosovo Serbs will decide on further participation in Kosovo institutions after a meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic next week. "We are focused on the meeting with Prime Minister Vucic, and after that we will once again consider everything and decide whether we will continue to take part in the operation of institutions," Stojanovic told Tanjug, adding that he expects the meeting to be held next week. MPs of the Srpska List started to boycott the sessions of the Kosovo Asse

BELGARDE - Marko Djuric, director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) said for Thursday's edition of Belgrade daily Politika that the trials in KiM will be conducted in line with the regulations passed by the Kosovo parliament. “Since the arrival of the international forces in our southern province in 1999, the legal framework, which is created by the parliament in Pristina, has been functioning autonomously from other parts of the country.

BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric talked on Wednesday with a delegation of the German Bundestag, informing them about the developments in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, and the recent agreement on the judiciary in the northern part of the province. The agreement is good for the Serb community and establishment of the rule of law in northern Kosovo-Metohija, Djuric said. In talks with the members of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the States of South-Eastern Europe in the Bundestag, led by Chair Peter Weiss, Dj

BELGRADE - Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija, stated on Wednesday that the agreement on judiciary, which was initialed in Brussels on Tuesday, will bring about better conditions for Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija. Djuric said that for Radio and Television of Serbia that he expects that the agreement will also contribute to the opening of chapters in the EU accession talks. The agreement envisages that aside from the police administration in the north of the province, Serbs will now have a court, whose president will be a Serb, and there will be a sufficient