OSCE mission

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic Wednesday called for releasing Citizens' Initiative 'Freedom, Democracy, Justice' (SDP) leader Oliver Ivanovic and three other Serbs from detention in Kosovska Mitrovica pending a verdict.

PRISTINA - The continued presence of illegal re-occupation of properties gives a cause for concern and calls for a determined response by Kosovo institutions that should guarantee the full protection of the property rights of all communities in Kosovo, reads an OSCE Mission report launched on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, said in Podgorica Tuesday that as holder of the OSCE chairmanship, Serbia wishes Montenegro to become a member of the European Union as soon as possible.

FM in Montenegro: Brotherly peoples, sisterly states

PODGORICA -- OSCE Chairman and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said that "Belgrade and Serbia" want Montenegro to join the EU as soon as possible.

Fighting raged around a key railway hub in eastern Ukraine on Monday despite a ceasefire agreement that officially went into force a day earlier.

BELGRADE - The citizens' trust in the police has increased in 2014, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Peter Burkhard said Friday, voicing hope that Chapter 24 in Serbia's EU accession talks, related to justice, freedom and security, will be opened this year.

Interior ministry "to work on counter-terrorism strategy"

BELGRADE -- Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has said that his ministry "will be actively engaged in the fight against terrorism."

He made the statement during a meeting in Belgrade with d during the OSCE Mission to Serbia chief Peter Burkhard.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said during a meeting he had with Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia Peter Burkhard on Wednesday that the Serbian Interior Ministry would be actively engaged in the fight against terrorism.

The fighting in eastern Ukraine has been renewed with new intensity, claiming the lives of at least eleven people over the past day.

Military spokesperson Andriy Lysenko announced on Friday that at least six soldiers were killed and 18 were wounded in the past day, the Guardian reports.

BELGRADE/VIENNA - Serbia will formally take over from Switzerland as the OSCE chair at the meeting of the organisation's Permanent Council on Thursday.