Kosovo

BELGRADE - Imposing sanctions on Moscow would be fatal for Serbia itself, Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Chepurin told the Vecernje novosti daily in an interview.

"We see that the Serbian leaders are not considering such an option at all, and many EU member states are also looking for a possibility to abandon the sanctions," he said.

A war crimes court that will deal with the crimes committed in Kosovo by the KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army") will start its work in the first half of next year.

Special Prosecutor David Schwendiman did not wish to speculate about the number of indictments, nor about when they will be raised.

Montenegrin PM Milo Djukanovic said in an exclusive interview for B92 that by recognizing Kosovo no one in Montenegro had any bad intentions towards Serbia.

BELGRADE - First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will head the Serbian delegation at the 17th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on Venezuela's Margarita Island on September 17-18.

He will also head the Serbian delegation at a September 15-16 meeting of NAM foreign ministers.

BELGRADE - Commenting on a statement by Michael Roth, Minister of State for Europe at Germany's Foreign Office, that Germany supported Serbia if it was resolved to become a part of the EU rather than Russia, FM Ivica Dacic said he did not understand it.

"Serbia and Russia are traditional friends, but when did Serbia express an intent to be a part of Russia?" he asked.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Tuesday received outgoing Moroccan ambassador Abdellah Zegour, who noted that his country's position of non-recognition of Kosovo would remain unchanged.

Agim Demaku, a resident of Pristina, is waiting impatiently in line at the civil registration office for provisional license plates that will enable him to drive abroad.

The contract with the company that supplies permanent plates expired months ago, and for now citizens of Kosovo can only get the temporary ones, which only Albania accepts.

THE HAGUE - David Schwendiman, lead prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers - set up to try crimes committed by the "Kosovo Liberation Army" - held in The Hague on Thursday his first press conference since his appointment.

He declined to speculate on the number of future indictments and on when they will be raised.

The chief prosecutor at the new special court set up to try former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters for crimes during and after the war promised he would conduct his investigations fearlessly and independently.

BELGRADE - The deputy head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Dusan Kozarev, on Monday presented to Chaloka Beyani, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, the concept of the Sunny Valley returnee settlement in Kosovo-Metohija and the obstacles to a greater sustainable return of IDPs.