Kosovo

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that the Constitution will have to be changed in the next 2-3 years, but that a consensus within the society will be needed regarding the issue.

The cause of the chage will not be Kosovo, he told Radio and Television of Serbia on Monday.

Steinmeier: Germany is "reliable partner on path to EU"

BELGRADE -- "I come to Belgrade with the message that Germany will continue to be a sincere and reliable partner to Serbia on its way towards the EU," says Germany's FM.

The EU rule-of-law mission, EULEX, on Monday said it had found human remains in a village cemetery in the Skenderaj/Srbica area of Kosovo after a villager provided information.

Montenegro intends one day to set up joint diplomatic representatives offices with a number of countries, including Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania, a Montenegrin diplomat in Kosovo has said.

The Montenegrin Charge d'Affaires in Kosovo, Radovan Miljanic, said the time was not far off when Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia would have a number of joint embassies and consulates.

KUMANOVO - Macedonian police authorities are conducting a large scale raid in the area near the Kosovo border, in the villages of Gosince, Brest and Malina Mahala, Deputy Minister of Interior Ivo Kotevski said.

Searching houses in this region, mostly abandoned, the police found weapons and ammunition, Kotevski said, MIA news agency reported.

Civil society members and representatives of international organizations gathered in Pristina on Friday for the launch of "Big Deal: Lost in Stagnation," a report on the implementation of the Brussels Agreement between Kosovo and Serbia.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Friday stated in Craiova that both the Romanian minority in Serbia and the Serbian minority in Romania represent a bridge for an even closer relationship between the two countries, also pointing out that the government he leads is open to any kind of observations on this topic.

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"99.5 percent of asylum seekers returned to Serbia"

BELGRADE -- Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic says that 99.5 percent of Serbian citizens seeking asylum in EU countries have been sent back.

The reason is that Serbia has been declared a country of safe origin, he told a news conference on Friday.

Russia sees "lingering conflict potential in Balkans"

MOSCOW -- Russia was "deeply alarmed to learn that in the early hours of April 21 a group of armed men attacked the Macedonian checkpoint of Gosince."

A statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website explained that the incident happenedd on the Kosovo section of the border between Serbia and Macedonia.

Kosovo Serb politicians on Thursday agreed to return to the country's parliament and government after receiving assurances in discussions that their coalition agreement will be respected.

Prime Minister Mustafa on Friday named Dalibor Jevtic from the Srpska List as the replacement for Aleksandar Jablanovic, the Minister for Returns and Communities who was removed two months ago.