Yugoslavia

Nikola Sainovic, the former deputy prime minister of Yugoslavia convicted of war crimes in Kosovo, will become the fourth Balkan war criminal to serve his sentence in Sweden.

A report on average wages in former Yugoslavia countries and Albania, compiled by Anadolu news agency, says Slovenes earn most in the region per month, with average wages of 1,002 euro.

This comes as no surprise, as the country has been a member of the EU for almost 10 years and was the wealthiest republic in Yugoslavia.

BELGRADE - The exhibition of documents and photographs marking the seven decades since Operation Halyard, a World War II rescue mission in central Serbia during which more than 500 downed U.S. airmen were airlifted to safety, will open on Tuesday evening in Belgrade.

Regional countries join hands to resolve missing persons issue

BRUSSELS- Spokesperson of the high EU representative for foreign affairs and security policy Maja Kocijancic refused on Thursday to comment on media reports according to which High EU Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton decided to unfreeze the property of late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, his family and close associates.

Sarajevo assassin was defending his country - president

BELGRADE -- Tomislav Nikolić said at an exhibition dedicated to the Sarajevo assassination that Gavrilo Princip's act "can be understood as the defense of his own country."

Serbs in Bosnia "closely watching" Scottish referendum

Bosnian Serbs are "closely watching Scotland's independence referendum," the French agency AFP is reporting on Monday.

According to this, they are hoping that if Scots vote to break away from Britain "it would set a precedent that could boost their own chances of proclaiming a separate state."

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will meet with Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency member Nebojsa Radmanovic on Monday.

The meeting will be held in the building of the president's General Secretariat, the presidential press office said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Darko Tanaskovic has been appointed new permanent delegate of the Republic of Serbia to UNESCO in Paris by a decree of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic.

President Nikolic signed the decrees on the appointment of ambassadors on September 11, and they entered into force on Friday.

BELGRADE - "Young Bosnia and the Sarajevo Assassination" (Mlada Bosna i Sarajevski atentat), an exhibition prepared by the Republika Srpska (RS) Archives based in Banja Luka to mark the centenary of the beginning of World War I, will be opened at the Archives of Yugoslavia in Belgrade on September 15.