PRIŠTINA, BELGRADE -- The search of a location in the Piskote village near Đakovica has been concluded with no result, a Priština official has said.

It was suspected that the location contained a mass grave with the remains of Serb civilians kidnapped in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999 by members of the ethnic Albanian KLA, and illegally imprisoned in the Likovac camp before they were murdered.

A total of 73 Serb civilians went missing in the area of Đakovica during the that period of time.

An association gathering families of Serb victims in Kosovo said it hoped that an investigation of a suspected mass grave will yield "concrete results."

 The Association of the Families of 1998-2000 Kosovo Victims warned at the same time that last year only nine people were identified from a long list of kidnapped Serbs, and this year none.

They hope that the probe announced on Monday by the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution and the EULEX Prosecution of a site in the village of Piskote "will give concrete results."

The Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of Serbia and EULEX will verify information on the existence of a mass grave of Serbian victims in the village Piskota in Gjakove/Gjakovica municipality, the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor in Belgrade announced today.

According to the press release, it is suspected that the grave contains the bodies of people killed during the armed conflict in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999.

The Serbian prosecution has information that the location could possibly contain the remains of victims of KLA crimes in the "Likovci" prison camp.

 Serbia's OSCE chairmanship next year will be "a great opportunity to take on a role and mediate in negotiations in order to smooth EU-Russia relations."

 "Serbia must use the opportunity so that an easy solution is found, so that NATO would not have to become involved in it," the Belgrade-based daily Danas is quoting Dušan Siđanski, a special adviser to the president of the European Commission, who was in Serbia for the Belgrade Security Forum.

“Spain is deeply convinced that the support of the United States and other countries for the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo is a huge mistake,” said Charge d'Affaires of the Embassy of Spain in Belgrade, Inigo Ramirez de Aro Valdes, noting that Catalan separatism is not supported.

Ramirez de Aro said that the Catalan separatism has no international support, because "recognition of unilateral declarations causes global chaos and a map of the world turns into a pointless war pattern".

Jadranka Joksimovic expressed the belief on Thursday that Serbia will open the first negotiating chapter by the end of the year.

Serbian Minister without portfolio in charge of European Integration, Jadranka Joksimovic, expressed the belief on Thursday that Serbia will open the first negotiating chapter by the end of the year, noting that this step would serve as an additional encouragement to Serbia's efforts by the European Commission.

Bosnian Serbs are "closely watching Scotland's independence referendum," the French agency AFP is reporting on Monday.

According to this, they are hoping that if Scots vote to break away from Britain "it would set a precedent that could boost their own chances of proclaiming a separate state."

The Serbian List will request the postponement of the continuation of the constitutive session of Kosovo Assembly, which is due on Friday, said Marko Djuric, Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija.

BRUSSELS -- Johannes Hahn has been appointed as EU's commissioner for neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations.

This new office was introduced instead of the commissioner for enlargement, that was until now occupied by Stefan Fule.

Hahn is considered a very experienced diplomat when it comes to relations between the European Union and the Balkans.

New European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has recently twice stated that the EU would not accept any new members during his five-year term in office.

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.