Independence of Kosovo

"Crimea won't cause EU to reconsider Kosovo"

BRUSSELS -- Presiding member of the EU Council of Ministers Dimitris Kourkoulas says the Crimea crisis will not cause the EU to reconsider "its decision" concerning Kosovo.

BELGRADE - Presiding member of the Council of Ministers of the EU Dimitris Kourkoulas has said that the Crimean crisis will not cause the EU to reconsider its decision concerning Kosovo.

"Hague scenario" at work in Kosovo, lawyers say

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- The legal team defending Oliver Ivanović warned on Monday that a "Hague scenario was now at work in Kosovo and Metohija."

They said the investigation against the Serb politician from northern Kosovo "was not being conducted in a transparent manner."

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Fifteen years since the NATO aggression on Serbia was marked in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) on Monday with commemorative gatherings, memorial services and paying tribute to the victims.

The Kosovo authorities have handed over the remains of 27 of the people who were killed by Serbian forces during the 1998-99 conflict to their relatives.

A Belgrade human rights group marked the 15th anniversary of the start of the Serbian military campaign by launching a website detailing unpunished crimes against Kosovo Albanians.

Ashton on dialogue between Belgrade and Priština

BRUSSELS -- The prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, not the EU, are behind the Brussels agreement, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has said.

Serbia's stance on Ukraine "must be responsible"

BELGRADE -- Serbia's view concerning the situation in Ukraine "has to be and will be completely responsible" and will not be adopted by the outgoing government.

This is according to the SNS party leader and deputy prime minister in the caretaker cabinet, Aleksandar Vučić said on Saturday.

Serbia "to protect survival" of Serb entity

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vučić said on Saturday that Serbia respected the Dayton Agreement and the integrity of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

BRUSSELS - The EU is not the one behind the Brussels agreement, but the prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, EU High Representative Catherine Ashton has said at a panel discussion of the Brussels Forum.

She said at an annual forum of the German Marshall Fund the Brussels agreement was not her doing, but of Serbia's Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and Kosovo's Prime Minister Hasim Taci.