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Linta: Amendments aim to get Serbs to give up on property

BELGRADE - The objective of the amendments tabled by Croatian members of the European Parliament (EP) to the progress report for Serbia is to get Serb refugees and expellees from Croatia to give up on their demands for a return of their seized flats and other property rights, says the president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia, Miodrag Linta.

Linta condemns Tomasic's statement on minorities

BELGRADE - President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta most fiercely condemned on Friday the pro-ustasha statement of Croatian MP in the European Parliament Ruza Tomasic who said that the status of national minorities in Croatia should be called off and that all members of national minorities are 'political Croats.'

Croatian Leader Appeals to UN Over Seselj

Newly-elected Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic urged the UN secretary-general to push for Serbian nationalist war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj to be returned to custody in The Hague.

Linta: Grabar Kitarovic's statement is chauvinistic

BELGRADE - President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta condemned on Friday in the strongest terms the "provocative and chauvinistic" statement by the newly-elected President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic that she considers all citizens of Croatia to be Croats.

Stefanovic: Croatian president's statement- scandalous

BELGRADE - Nebojsa Stefanovic, vice-president of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), qualified on Friday as scandalous the statement by the newly-elected President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic that all Serbs in Croatia are Croats.

During the election campaign, Grabar Kitarovic addressed all citizens of Croatia as "Croats".

Number of asylum seekers increases in December

Number of asylum seekers increases in December

BELGRADE -- Last year, about 16,500 people "had the intention to seek asylum in Serbia," and December saw a drastic increase in their number.

3,400 people requested asylum that month, heard a conference organized by the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration in Belgrade on Thursday.

Number of asylum seekers increases drastically in December

BELGRADE- Last year, about 16,500 people had the intention to seek asylum in Serbia, and December saw a drastic increase in the number of asylum seekers, with 3,400 people requesting asylum that month, it was said at a conference organized by the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration in Belgrade on Thursday.

Linta: New Croatian president must advocate Serb rights

BELGRADE - The president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia, Miodrag Linta, on Monday urged new Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarevic to demand that Zoran Milanovic's government honour the rights of ethnic Serbs that are guaranteed by the constitution, the law and international agreements signed by Croatia.

DSS: Croatia's new president has no respect for Serb rights

BELGRADE - President of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Sanda Raskovic Ivic said on Monday that in it scontacts with Croatia's new president, Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, Serbia should insist on protecting the rights of the Croatian Serbs and solutions to the the problem of Serb refugees and missing persons from the 1991-1995 conlfict.

Croatian law on minorities "not implemented"

Croatian law on minorities "not implemented"

BELGRADE -- Croatia's constitutional law on minority rights remains a "dead letter" even though it was adopted 12 years ago.

This is according to Miodrag Linta, president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia, and a deputy in the Serbian National Assembly on the ruling SNS party ticket.

Ship issues distress signal west of Corfu

A ship that issued a distress signal off the west of Corfu on Tuesday is believed to be carrying undocumented migrants, with Greek authorities investigating concerns that some of the passengers may be armed.

Serbia told to free detained Falun Gong members

Serbia told to free detained Falun Gong members

BRUSSELS -- European parliament member Eduard Kukan has asked in a statement issued late on Wednesday that Serbia releases all activist detained in Belgrade.

Macedonia, Croatia tackle corruption

Macedonia, Croatia tackle corruption

Officials' involvement in organised crime raises the issue of cross-border security.

Macedonian and Croatian police continue to co-operate to bring to justice current and former high-level officials suspected of corruption including cross-border fraud, experts said.

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Serbs insulted at peaceful protest in Glina

GLINA - Serbs were verbally attacked and insulted during a peaceful protest against the decision of the local government in Glina, central Croatia, to ban memorial services and commemorations at the site where the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin once stood and in which Croatian Nazi troops Ustashas massacred 1,500 Serbs back in 1941.

Croatian Serb Refugees Demand Belgrade Monument

Refugees who fled Croatia during the 1990s war asked the Belgrade authorities to erect a monument dedicated to Serb victims who died during the conflict.

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