Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

BELGRADE - The OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Police Academy presented on Thursday a publication on youth and hooliganism in sports events, focusing on preventive action.

The OSCE's Chairman-in-Office and Swiss President Didier Burkhalter has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the situation in Ukraine.

Serbia won't change Russia policy, expects Lavrov's visit

VIENNA -- Serbia respects the territorial integrity of UN member-states, but will never adopt measures against Russia or oppose Moscow.

This is what Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said at a Council of Europe ministerial meeting in Vienna on Tuesday.

Dačić attends Council of Europe ministerial meeting

VIENNA -- First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dačić is in Vienna where he will take part in the 124th ministerial meeting of the Council of Europe, the Serbian MFA said.

Upon arriving in Vienna, Dačić conferred with Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz late on Monday, according to the ministry.

Russia's Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights is ready to partner with international organizations to monitor the situation in Ukraine.

The central committee of National Democratic Rebirth, NDR, an ethnic Albanian party headed by former Gostivar mayor Rufi Osmani, said it would not participate in the next parliament, calling last week’s elections illegitimate.

All 7 kidnapped observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, who were held by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine since 25 April, were freed, Saturday.

Five Ukrainian officers taken with them were also freed, according to Russian media reports.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukrainian forces pull back from the south-east of their country in a conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

A phone call between the two has held as Merkel decided to ask Putin for help in the OSCE hostage crisis of the last few days, Der Spiegel magazine has reported.

Merkel asks Putin to help free OSCE observers

MOSCOW -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to help free a team of OSCE observers captured in Ukraine by a pro-Russian militia.

First interview of new diplomacy Chief and former Prime Minister Dacic: I dare anyone challenge me!

The First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic reveals in his interview with the Blic what his first tasks shall be, the outcome regarding diplomatic passports and relations within the SPS.