Independence of Kosovo

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivan Mrkic stated on Monday that the statement by Gerhard Schroeder, former chancellor of Germany, that the 1999 air campaign against Serbia constituted a violation of the international law came too late, reiterating that Serbia advocates the adherence to the international law in all circumstances.

BELGRADE - Political leader of Serbs in north Kosovo-Metohija Oliver Ivanovic has been in solitary confinement in Pristina as of Saturday, and his health has deteriorated, Ivanovic's wife Milena told Tanjug on Monday.

“I visited Oliver in the detention unit in Pristina. This is the seventh day in a row that he is on a hunger strike. His health was very poor today,” she said.

BELGRADE – The March 16 Kosovo elections will be held in accordance with the agreements reached in Brussels on April 16 and with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Sunday.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government said at a meeting it held late on Friday that the intention of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government in Kosovo to form “Kosovo armed forces” is destabilizing the situation in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) and announced bringing the this issue to the United Nations (UN).

BELGRADE - The Serbian government office for Kosovo stated on Friday concern of the deteriorated health of Citizen Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic, who has been on a hunger strike in a prison in Pristina for four days.

"Ivanovic's condition is so poor that he was unable to make it through his lawyer's visit today, according to what we have been told," the statement says.

BRUSSELS - The next round of the talks concerning the normalization of the relations between Belgrade and Pristina has not been scheduled yet and it is unknown when it will be held, Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson of the EU High Representative Catherine Ashton, told reporters on Friday.

Atmosphere at Croatia-Swtzerland match and St Galen | Photo: Beta/AP

Serbia's Football Association, FSS, has written to FIFA, asked it to cancel a decision to allow Kosovo's national team to play friendly matches.

The FSS said the Serbian flag was set on fire before Kosovo's first such friendly, played in Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, against Haiti.

Montenegrin associations in Kosovo filed a joint initiative for consolidation of the community's legal status in the country on Thursday.

The initiative was submitted to President Atifete Jahjaga, the speaker of the Assembly, Jakup Krasniqi, and the Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci.

Ivanović still on hunger strike, his health deteriorates

PRIŠTINA -- The health of Oliver Ivanović, the detained Serb politician from northern Kosovo, who earlier this week began a hunger strike, "has worsened."

This is according to his wife Milena Popović-Ivanović, who spoke late on Thursday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The health condition of Oliver Ivanovic, the detained leader of Citizens' Initiative Serbia, Democracy, Justice who is on a hunger strike, has worsened, his wife Milena Popovic Ivanovic said on Thursday.