Politics of Serbia

BRUSSELS - A new round of talks between Belgrade and Pristina, facilitated by European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, commenced in Brussels Wednesday.

Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for Ashton, said the European foreign policy chief is currently having a joint meeting with Serbian Prime minister Ivica Dacic and Kosovo Prime Minister Hasim Taci.

BELGRADE - Serbia is an engine taking regional processes in a favorable direction, Gerard Stoudmann, OSCE chairperson-in-office special representative on the Western Balkans, said in Belgrade Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Nemanja Sarovic, deputy leader of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), claims that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has subjected SRS leader Vojislav Seselj to inhuman treatment, as after the recent surgery, he was put in isolation in the prison hospital.

BELGRADE - The United Regions of Serbia submitted on Monday its slate, entitled Let's Work and Live for the snap parliamentary election on March 16.

The first name on the slate is that of URS leader Mladjan Dinkic, follwed yb Sasa Milenic and Verica Kalanovic.

URS Vice Preisdent Suzana Grubjesic is 6th on the list.

BELGRADE - The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) has presented its "Program for Serbia's Development from 2014 to 2019 - Economy of Political Neutrality", thus launching the campaign for early parliamentary elections that will be held on March 16.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic has announced that, at Monday's United Nations Security Council session in New York, he will point to problems in Kosovo-Metohija that are related to the lack of respect of fundamental human rights, as well as the issues of security and the property of the Serbian Orthodox Church.