Independence of Kosovo

Lawyers detained in northern Kosovo released

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- By the decision of the Kosovska Mitrovica Basic Court, lawyers Dejan A. Vasić and Faruk Korenica were released from custody on Wednesday.

Tanjug reported this quoting EULEX spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - By the decision of the Kosovska Mitrovica Basic Court, lawyers Dejan A. Vasic and Faruk Korenica were released from custody on Wednesday, EULEX spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic conferred on Wednesday with the head of the EU delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport, who said that the EU foreign policy and security chief Catherine Ashton wishes to visit the Republic of Serbia after its new government has been formed.

Rasko Konjevic, Montenegrin Interior Minister, and his Kosovo counterpart, Bajram Rehxepi, were scheduled to sign a demarcation agreement in Pristina on Wednesday.

"The demarcation [of the border] with a neighbouring country is Montenegro's obligation in the EU accession process," the Montenegrin Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Female activists gathered in Belgrade to pay tribute to victims of the Serbian military campaign in Kosovo in 1999 and demand that the authorities prosecute the guilty.

BELGRADE - Serbia is a European country that is part of the European civilisational memory thanks to its culture and development through history, but it insists on truth and justice at all costs, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said at an academy marking 15 years since the NATO aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and ten years since the March pogrom against Kosovo-Metohija

Bosnia's path to NATO membership is complicated by neighbouring Serbia's unclear attitude towards the alliance, a conference held on March 25 in Sarajevo by the Atlantic Initiative heard.

BELGRADE – Speaking at a meeting organized by Belgrade University students to commemorate 15 years since the start of the 1999 NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia, Serbian Minister for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Aleksandar Vulin said that the victims of the aggression must not be forgotten and that NATO has not apologized for bombing Serbia.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 25 (Tanjug) - Eulex spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic said on Tuesday that the two people arrested earlier in the day are suspected of having obstructed evidence or official proceedings.

Arrest of two lawyers "further pressure on Serbs"

BELGRADE, ZVEČAN -- Aleksandar Vulin says the arrest of lawyers Dejan Vasić and Faruk Korenica "represents further pressure on Serbs in northern Kosovo."

The minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo in the technical government called for their immediate release pending trial.