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BELGRADE - The sale of Komercijalna banka, where the government is the biggest shareholder, is in sight and should be completed by 2017, head of the National Bank of Serbia department for financial institution monitoring Djordje Jevtic has said.

The German Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection, Heiko Maas, on the occasion of a meeting with his Romanian counterpart, Robert Cazanciuc, appreciated the activity of the Romanian Ministry of Justice of the last two years, appreciation he said he also expressed during his bilateral meetings with other counterparts, reads a release of the Ministry sent to AGERPRES.

 First section of three-part report investigates evolution of ties between Athens and Berlin and chancellor?s rise to center stage of Europe

By Yannis Palaiologos

The 18th Flying Broom International Women?s Films Festival will be held this year between May 8 and 18.

The festival program was launched at a meeting held at Ku?ulu Park in the Turkish capital. The festival, which will host a number of workshops, forums and panel discussions, has the theme ?The States of 18,? in its 18th year. 

Germany's Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said that the creation of a special court on war crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, during the conflict of the 1990s is an essential tool for Kosovo to deal with unresolved issues from the past.

PRISTINA - Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga in Pristina on Wednesday and stressed the importance of the implementation of the Brussels agreement, which is meant to bring the relations between Belgrade and Pristina back to normal.

BELGRADE - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier came to Belgrade with the positive message that Berlin is an advocate of further EU enlargement, says the president of the NGO Centre for Foreign Policy Aleksandra Joksimovic.

BELGRADE - Serbian officials' meetings with Germany's Foreign Minister Walter Steinmeier in Belgrade have shown that Germany has balanced its policy regarding Kosovo to an extent and that Pristina has to be prepared to compromise, professor of the Belgrade Faculty of Political Science Ivo Viskovic has said.

BELGRADE - Program Director of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) Nikola Jovanovic said that the visit of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier brought no new elements or conditions in the relations between Serbia and Germany.

PRISTINA - Setting up of a new special tribunal to deal with allegations of war crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is for the benefit of future generations in Kosovo, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in Pristina.