Kosovo War

15 years on, "no solution" for Kosovo IDPs - OSCE

PRIŠTINA -- 15 years after the Kosovo conflict there are still no lasting solutions for the return or integration of around 220,000 people "displaced outside Kosovo."

Another Serb monastery defaced with graffiti

ORAHOVAC -- Unidentified perpetrators wrote graffiti reading "KLA" (Kosovo Liberation Army) and "Kosovo" in the yard of the Sebian Orthodox Monastery in Zociste, in Kosovo.

The Diocese of Raska and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church qualified this as "a new provocation."

European Parliament slams Seselj's rhetoric

ORAHOVAC - Unidentified perpetrators have daubed graffiti reading "KLA" (Kosovo Liberation Army) and "Kosovo" within the courtyard of the Sveti Vracci (Holy Healers) Monastery in Zocciste, western Kosovo-Metohija, and the Diocese of Raska and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church qualified this as a new provocation.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic said Friday that Serbia wanted the highest form of cooperation with NATO that a partner state that did not want membership of the Alliance could have, and stressed that a creation of armed forces of Kosovo-Metohija was unacceptable for Serbia.

Russian envoy: Ethnic strife persists in Kosovo

NEW YORK -- Violence against Serbs in Kosovo and desecration of Orthodox monasteries "are a clear evidence of persisting ethnic strife in the Kosovo Albanian society."

BELGRADE - Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj, an indictee of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) who has been granted provisional release by the tribunal due to poor health, said on Thursday that the health condition of Goran Hadzic - a former Croatian Serb leader who stands trial before the ICTY - is very grave.

BELGRADE - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has made the decision on Vojislav Seselj's release without consulting Serbia, so the Hague-based tribunal should also worry about him now, says Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic.

BRUSSELS - Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic attended a meeting of foreign ministers from the Western Balkans at the European Parliament (EP) on Tuesday, where he criticised the EP resolution concerning International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indictee Vojislav Seselj that was adopted last week.

Prosecution asks court to order Seselj to return

THE HAGUE -- The Hague Prosecution has asked the Trial Chamber of the Hague Tribunal (ICTY) to order war crimes indictee Vojislav Seselj to return to the detention unit.

He was last month granted provisional release on medical grounds.