Western Balkans Fund

TIRANA, October 4 /ATA / – Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA) and the Serbian Tanjug News Agency organized Wednesday in Tirana the international conference “Serbs and Albanians – Which Way Further?” in Tirana.

The National Assembly of Serbia on Thursday passed a bill ratifying an agreement on the establishment of the Western Balkans Fund.

Its aim is to "strengthen ties and encouraging the European integration of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia," Tanjug has reported.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government is not pursuing a policy of treason and it is not acting as an accomplice in creating an independent Kosovo, FM Ivica Dacic said in the parliament Wednesday.

Dacic was responding to objections from opposition MPs who had said the government was practically recognising Kosovo's independence by setting up the Western Balkans Fund.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government is not pursuing a policy of treason and it is not acting as an accomplice in creating an independent Kosovo, FM Ivica Dacic said in the parliament Wednesday.

Dacic was responding to objections from opposition MPs who had said the government was practically recognising Kosovo's independence by setting up the Western Balkans Fund.

EU membership "key foreign policy priority"

BRATISLAVA -- Full EU membership is the key foreign policy priority for Serbia, and the vision of a common European future is a vision shared by all the Western Balkans.

This is according to Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić who spoke in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Friday.

BRATISLAVA - Full membership in the EU is the key foreign policy priority for Serbia, and the vision of a common European future is a vision shared by all of us in the Western Balkans, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday.