Republic of Serbian Krajina

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Marko Djuric said Saturday's commemorations for Serbs killed or expelled in Croatia's 1995 "Operation Storm" had reflected the sadness over the loss of innocent lives and that Serbia had demonstrated it remembered the unfortunate event in worthy and dignified manner.

President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui, attends the commemoration of the Day of Remembrance of the martyred and exiled Serbs during the "Storm" operation.

Croatia's Minister of Veterans' Affairs, Tomo Medved, said the authorities remain committed to finding all the remaining missing persons from the 1991-95 war, as five more war victims were formally identified on Friday at the Dr Juraj Njavro National Memorial Hospital in the eastern town of Vukovar.

Follow the latest updates from our reporters in The Hague and Bosnia as the UN's war crimes tribunal delivers its appeal verdict in the retrial of former Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic.

The retrial of Serb ex-policeman Milenko Maric for committing war crimes against the civilian population will begin on Tuesday in Osijek after he was extradited for the second time in six years from Britain, where he has been living for more than 25 years.

Maric, 63, who was extradited to Croatia on April 5, will be tried alongside 11 others.

Andrija Matin wept as he said goodbye to Kristic and to his grandchildren, although neither he nor she knew that they would never see each other again.

Erdut, the small town where they lived in eastern Croatia, was no longer a safe place for anyone, let alone children.

On the anniversary of the day in 1995 when the last territory occupied by Serb rebel forces in Croatia's Baranja and Eastern Slavonia region during the war was finally returned to government control, a film screening was held in the city of Vukovar to mark the peaceful reintegration.

ZAGREB - The president of Croatia's Serb National Council, Milorad Pupovac, who is also the leader of the Independent Democratic Serb Party, signed with Serbian Human Rights Minister Tomislav Zigmanov, who is also the leader of the Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina, a declaration on cooperation between Serbs in Croatia and Croats in Serbia.

Radoslav Brdjanin, wartime leader of a Serb-run rebel territory called the Autonomous Region of Krajina in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has died at the age of 74, a few days after his release from prison.

Radoslav Brdjanin, wartime leader of a Serb-run rebel territory called the Autonomous Region of Krajina in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was released after serving two-thirds of his 30-year sentence.