Hague Tribunal

Mogherini delivered a speech to parliament in Belgrade on Friday despite booing by the MPs from the Serbian Radical Party who shouted: "Serbia, Russia, we don't need the EU."

MPs from the far-right Dveri members meanwhile held up posters with the slogans: "Serbia doesn't believe in Brussels."

Mogherini however encouraged Serbian lawmakers to continue pursuing EU membership.

A French appeals court has postponed a decision on the possible extradition of former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, who was a UCK (KLA) commander during the 1998-99 Kosovo war.

The court has said a ruling on Haradinaj's extradition will be made on April 6.

Former head of security of the Bosnian Serb army (VRS) Main Staff Ljubisa Beara has died aged 78, in a prison in Berlin.

Beara was put on trial on Srebrenica genocide charges and found guilty by the Hague Tribunal.

The shooting of a feature film about the life of Croatian general Ante Gotovina, who was acquitted of war crimes by the Hague Tribunal, starts in Croatia this month.

The ruling Serbian Progressive Party has been hosting Veselin Sljivancanin, who was convicted by the Hague Tribunal of responsibility for the 1991 Vukovar massacre, as a speaker at party events.

Hague Tribunal President Carmel Agius says the behavior of Serbia regarding the extradition of SRS party officials is "a great cause for concern."

Former policeman Johan Tarculovski has entered parliament after being elected as MP in the country's second electoral unit that covers parts of Macedonia's north-east but also parts of capital Skopje.

Ratko Mladic's defense lawyers on Tuesday demanded that the former military leader of Serbs in Bosnia be acquitted by the Hague Tribunal.

Mladic has been charged with war crimes and genocide committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

Ratko Mladic's defense said in its closing arguments before the Hague Tribunal that it managed to demonstrate Mladic is not guilty of genocide and other crimes.

Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic has filed an appeal challenging the Hague Tribunal’s verdict sentencing him to 40 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity.