Kosovo War

The war crimes trial of two Serbian officers has been repeatedly delayed because the defendants have not turned up and Kosovo lawyers representing the victims have been barred.

BELGRADE - Establishment of a Kosovo army would increase the lack of security for Serbs and other non-Albanian communities because it would, in fact, be a successor of the terrorist "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA), Milovan Drecun, the former chairman of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija, said on Tuesday.

MUP unit in Kosovo as part of "planned activity"

BELGRADE -- The Ministry of Interior has said that members of the Serbian Army, and MUP's Gendarmerie on Tuesday conducted a joint reconnaissance activity with KFOR.

This went "in line with the Kumanovo Agreement," said the MUP.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Interior said on Wednesday that representatives of the Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) and the Serbian Gendarmerie have conducted a joint reconnaissance operation with Kfor representatives in line with the Kumanovo Agreement.

Controversy has erupted over a state fund that will be set up to support former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas on trial at a new internationally-backed war crimes tribunal.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - United Kingdom's (UK) Ambassador in Pristina said Wednesday that the UK strongly supports the continuation of reserved seats in the Kosovo assembly and that a move forward in the setting up a community of Serb municipalities is expected after Kosovo's parliamentary elections.

SARAJEVO - The chief prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Serge Brammertz has said that, following a recent visit to Sarajevo, he is disappointed with the progress in war crimes investigations transferred several years ago by the ICTY Prosecutor's Office to Bosnia.

"Court for KLA is not criticism of Hague's work"

THE HAGUE -- Serge Brammertz says a tribunal to deal with KLA crimes would not represent "criticism of the work of the Hague Tribunal concerning the Kosovo conflict."

The relatives marched through Gjakova/Djakovica on Sunday to draw attention to the fact that more than 1,700 people who went missing during the conflict in the late 1990s have not yet been found.

BELGRADE / BRUSSELS - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that the Kosovo government’s approval of a special court to investigate 1998-1999 war crimes committed by members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army KLA, former ethnic Albanian paramilitary organization, in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), is a step forward for justice and the rule of law.