Political status of Kosovo

The Kosovo parliament postponed a vote on amendments to the constitution whose aim was to enable the formation of a special court on the wartime crimes of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

Serbian FM Ivica Dacic will be representing Serbia at the UN Security Council meeting on Kosovo, to be held in New York on Tuesday.

The Serbian government met on Thursday in Belgrade and passed a draft on amendments to the Law on Privatization.

The draft proposes that the existing deadline for privatization should not refer to the companies of strategic importance for the Republic of Serbia and business entities in Kosovo and Metohija.

The future of the preamble of the Constitution of Serbia, which states that Kosovo and Metohija is an integral part of Serbia, "is safe for the time being."

This was the message from the ruling coalition on Wednesday after the first meeting of parliament's Action Team for the Reform of the Political System. The Action Team's first meeting "discussed the manner of its future work."

UN Security Council session on Kosovo on May 26

BELGRADE -- Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic conferred on Friday with the head of the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, Farid Zarif.

Serbia won't recognize Kosovo, president reiterates

MOSCOW -- Tomislav Nikolic has told the Russian Interfax agency that the most important condition set before Serbia for joining the EU will be "to recognize Kosovo."

But the president added that this was a condition "that only slaves could accept."

US ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson said on Thursday that the United States could not continue to block attempts by permanent UN Security Council member Russia to form a tribunal for Kosovo if Pristina fails to approve the formation of the new special court to try senior Kosovo Liberation Army figures for serious crimes during and after the 1998-99 war.

PRISTINA - Kosovo's constitutional court on Wednesday unanimously adopted an amendment on setting up a special war crimes court.

The court established that the amendment to chapters 2 and 3 of the Kosovo constitution is acceptable as it does not diminish human rights and freedoms.

The constitutional court ruled that a new EU-backed special court that is expected to try senior Kosovo Liberation Army figures does not breach any rights or freedoms.

Constitutional Court rules on Kosovo-related motions

BELGRADE -- A decree on the control of crossings along the administrative line with the autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija is not in line with the Constitution.

This has been determined by the Constitutional Court of Serbia.