Kosovo

Milos Stevic has suffered knife injuries during an attack carried out by several ethnic Albanians in Klokot, southern Kosovo, RTS has reported.

The 23-year-old Serb was taken for treatment to the local hospital and his condition is stable. "The wounds inflicted on him targeted internal organs and were potentially fatal," doctor Bratislav Lazic said.

‘Enclave’, a drama that follows the lives of Serbs who continued to live in Kosovo after the war, has been chosen as the Serbian candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the Oscars.

Almost nine months after being elected party president, Socialist Party boss Ivica Dacic - who is also Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Serbia - played safe in choosing a new leadership on Thursday.

Among the vice-presidents are veteran party officials Aleksandar Antic, Branko Ruzic, Slavica Djukic Dejanovic.

Former Yugoslav deputy PM Nikola Sainovic was elected to the main board of the Socialist Party, part of Serbia’s ruling coalition, after his prison sentence for war crimes in Kosovo ended.

Four of the five Kosovo men detained in Bulgaria last week and suspected of having links to radical Islamist groups have been issued suspended sentences for illegally crossing the border from Macedonia and were barred from entering Bulgaria, BNR radio broadcaster reported on Thursday.

Marko Djuric said on Thursday that he "thinks the time has come for representatives of Belgrade and Pristina to talk directly."

The director of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija was addressing a conference dubbed "Building Serbian-Albanian Relations" held in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.

Kosovo joining UNESCO would be a direct violation of international law, but also of the UN Charter and UNSC Resolution 1244, which nobody has abolished.

That is how Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandar Chepurin commented on Pristina's attempts to join UNESCO.

The EU rule-of-law mission and Kosovo’s forensics department have exhumed remains from a Muslim cemetery in Prizren - the latest discovery of a suspected victim of the 1990s war.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama agreed on a number of issues as they took part in a television program.

Their stands remained distant only with regard to Kosovo, Tanjug said in its report about the broadcast, called "Okruzenje".

The Kosovo government "has not yet taken a position on whether to allow Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic to arrive in Kosovo."

This has been reported by the Pristina-based Albanian language daily Koha Ditore.