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NewsNotes: EU plans to “integrate” Kosovo Serbs
EU Representative in Kosovo, Peter Feith, has confirmed that there is an ongoing plan that seeks to “integrate” Kosovo Serbs in around the city of Kosovska Mitrovica. “The strategy is based on the facts that the International Civil Office does not recognize parallel structures but only the institutions of Kosovo in the north,” Feith... »
NewsBits: FYROM To Send More Troops To Afghan
Macedonia will send an additional 80 soldiers to Afghanistan in February, bringing its total contingent there to 243, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. Macedonia already has 163 troops in Afghanistan as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-run International Security Assistance Force, the ministry said in a statement. Macedonia has also been participating in a United... »
Appeal over killed Albanian terrorists
Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor has appealed an acquittal of two former policemen accused of handing over 3 Albanian brothers with American citizenship. War crimes prosecutor’s office said Friday the trial violated the procedure and wrongly and insufficiently determined the facts in the case. The ethnic Albanian brothers left the US to volunteer for an Albanian terrorist organization, the... »
NewsBits: Bosnian Serbs arrested
Prosecutors say police have arrested three Bosnian Serbs suspected of having committed crimes against humanity at the beginning of Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. A statement from the state prosecutor’s office on Wednesday says it ordered the arrest of Milun Kornjaca, 54, Milorad Zivkovic, 52, and Dusko Tadic, 46. The three are suspected of having expelled, illegally... »
Roundup: Mine kills a man in Bosnia
Authorities say an explosion in northern Bosnia has killed a mine clearance expert and seriously wounded another. Jovo Peric, deputy head of the Mine Action Center in Banja Luka said the two victims were clearing mines near the town of Doboj on Thursday. The wounded worker was transferred to the hospital with life threatening wounds. According... »
NewsNotes: Serbia opens new army base
Serbian President Boris Tadic inaugurated Monday a new Serbian Army’s base in Cepotina in south of the country near the administrative border with Kosovo. Tadic, accompanied by Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic and Defense Dragan Sutanovac, said the Serbian army have great responsibilities to defending the country and restoring the country’s glorious days. Tadic said the base... »
NewsNotes: Fiat to benefit of Serbia-Russia free trade
Italian companies with investments in Serbia such as Fiat will benefit from a free trade agreement signed by Russia and Serbia, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said. Fiat bought a 67% stake in Serbia’s sole car maker, Zastava, in September 2008. The Serbian government owns the remaining stake. Fiat will invest a total of EUR700... »
NewsNotes: Tadic to face alcohol charges
Serbian President Boris Tadic faces a fine for allegedly drinking champagne at a stadium with his sports minister and the head of the soccer federation. Judge Zoran Pasalic said Tuesday the three are requested to appear in court on Dec. 1. Drinking alcohol at and around sports venues is illegal in Serbia and fines range from... »
Roundup: Serbian rep beaten, robbed
A representative in Serbia’s Parliament was attacked, beaten then robbed around 11 pm in Belgrade. The representative from the Democratic Party, Biljana Hasanovic-Korac, was attack by a criminal who hit her several times in the head with a metal object, then stole her purse. The attacker was later arrested. Hasanovic-Korac is in a stable... »
Roundup: NATO plans Kosovo force reduction
NATO’s Military Committee concluded today a working visit to Kosovo where it received a comprehensive briefing on the current situation. The transition of KFOR to the next phase of its operation in Kosovo, known as Deterrent Presence, and the planning for a reduction of forces in line with the developing security situation was at the... »
