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Serbs to participate in polls, "barring special conditions"

LEPOSAVIĆ -- Serbs in northern Kosovo will take part in early elections in the province "unless Priština sets last-minute special conditions that are impossible to meet."

This is what Leposavić Mayor Dragan Jablanović told Tanjug on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The identification of remains of 19 Serb victims killed during the armed conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995 in Croatia was carried out at the Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminalistics of the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, in the presence of family members.

BELGRADE - Regulations in Serbia often pose an obstacle to better cooperation with Serbian scientists in the diaspora and there is no clear will to facilitate their return, a conference held at the Rectorate of the University of Belgrade was told on Tuesday.

MPs in favor of Serbs participating in elections

BELGRADE -- Deputies from the ruling majority and the opposition in the Serbian parliament agree when it comes to participation of Serbs in elections in Kosovo.

According to them, it is important that Serbs participate in the voting on June 8.

BELGRADE - Milovan Drecun, president of the parliamentary Committee for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), has stated that Serbs should stand for the early parliamentary elections in KiM with a single slate since that would be the best way to protect Serb interests.

Mufti hopes for unity among Serbia's Muslims

BELGRADE -- The Islamic Community of Serbia (IZS) wants unity of Muslims to be achieved under its Riyasat in Belgrade, IZS deputy Reis-ul-Ulema Muhamed Jusufspahić says.

BELGRADE - Serbian State Secretary in the Ministry of Youth and Sports Predrag Perunicic conferred on Thursday with members of the Serbian kayak representation Olivera and Nikolina Moldovan, Sima Boltic and Vladimir Torubarov who won silver medals at the World Cup in Milan last weekend.

“Serbia remains a loyal friend of Russia,” Ivica Dacic, Serbia's Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, told his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on the sidelines of a ministerial session of the Council of Europe held in Vienna on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The stickers with the Croatian flag used to cover the bilingual signs on government buildings in Vukovar, which were put there by members of an association of war veterans, confirm that Serbs are underpriviliged citizens in Croatia and that the law does not protect them, head of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta said on Saturday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said Thursday on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of Operation Flash that, in this case, justice turned out to be slow and out of reach for Serbs.