Serbia needs to declare itself in accordance with the foreign policy positions of the EU; a country that wants to join cannot have a neutral position.

Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office Michael Roth told this to Belgrade-based newspaper Vecernje Novosti.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague allowed Pristina to join by ignoring the arguments of those who do not recognize Kosovo’s independence.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said this on Tuesday in Moscow, replying to reporters' questions.

On this year's World Refugee Day there are still almost 30,000 refugees in Serbia from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. In addition, there are more than 200,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Kosovo in the country, the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees has announced. "Despite all efforts and significant funds from the budget of Serbia and from the donors, the refugee issue in the region has still not been closed," a statement said, according to Beta agency, and added that the number of refugees and former refugees is "far greater," while their fate is shared by the IDPs from Kosovo,

The head of the Interpol office in Bosnia-Herzegovina says that Hashim Thaci will not be arrested "as long as he is Kosovo's president."

The reason for this, Branko Pavlovic told the N1 broadcaster, is that "Interpol in Lyon (HQ) decided not to deal with the issue."

In an interview that will be broadcaster on Wednesday evening, Pavlovic also said that the arrest warrant for Thaci was issued ten years ago "but is now not active because he has immunity."

"I see the danger of extremism in Kosovo," Niall Ferguson, a British historian who teaches at Harvard University, has told Belgrade-based daily Politika.

He added he would be "very surprised" if New York Times reporting about Kosovo turning into "the new Molenbeek" did not come true.

"Germany will not ratify the agreement on accepting Serbia to the EU until Kosovo becomes a full-fledged member of the UN."

This is what Belgrade-based daily Danas reported on Monday, citing an unnamed member of the German parliament from the ruling CDU/CSU.

"Top Serbian state officials were told two years ago that Kosovo's membership in the UN will be one of the conditions for Serbia to be accepted to the EU," the MP, who the paper said did not want to be named, said.

Kosovo's authorities will in the next few days set up a working group to establish the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO). That is what Kosovo President Hashim Thaci told Tanjug on Thursday. Thaci could not specify who the members of the working group will be, but noted that there will be no representatives of Serbia. He said that he respected Serbia's legitimate interest regarding its people who live in the territory of Kosovo, but that Kosovo was "an independent state." Thaci also "reiterated that the Serb-majority association of communities in Kosovo will have no executive powers an

Kosovo and the bombing of Yugoslavia was a turning point for NATO; since then, Western military interventions around the world are no longer even questioned.

This is what Austrian historian Kurt Gritsch told Deutsche Welle in an interview that the Serbian language service of Germany's state broadcaster ran under the headline, "NATO mutated after Yugoslavia."

The "Mirdita, dobar dan" ("good day" in Albanian and Serbian) festival was opened in Belgrade on Wednesday afternoon.

The annual presentation of the cultural and social scene of Kosovo is set to run until Saturday.

Organizers have said that their goal was "to bring together two societies aiming to overcome difficult consequences of the past and create conditions for a new start of young generations in the Balkans."

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Wednesday received UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations El Ghassim Wane.

During the conversation he noted that Serbia is fully committed to regional peace and stability and that it is cooperating with all despite a rise in ultra-nationalism in some countries.

Nikolic highlighted the significance of UN peacekeepers and their role in preserving peace and stability worldwide, in the region in particular.