- 17:43 10/09/2010
Serbia has finally been persuaded to compromise over Kosovo. On the eve of a vote on the UN General Assembly resolution on Kosovo, Serbia (which had been calling for Kosovo's status to be reconsidered) threw its weight behind the EU initiative.
- 21:35 22/07/2010
A ruling on Thursday by the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia was legal will not affect Russia's position on the issue, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
- 20:35 22/07/2010
A ruling on Thursday by the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia was legal will not affect Russia's position on the issue, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
- 19:08 22/07/2010
Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia does not contradict the norms of international law, the president of the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) said on Thursday.
- 18:16 22/07/2010
Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia does not contradict the norms of international law, the president of the UN International Court of Justice said on Thursday.
- 22:08 25/03/2008
Russia and Serbia will soon agree on a humanitarian aid package for crisis-hit areas of Kosovo in line with a request from the Serbian government, Russia's ambassador to Belgrade said on Tuesday.
- 16:38 19/03/2008
Serbia's neighbors Bulgaria, Croatia, and Hungary issued a joint statement on Wednesday saying they would recognize Kosovo's independence.
- 10:39 12/03/2008
A draft statement on Kosovo proposed by Russia to the UN Security Council was met with skepticism by Western nations.
- 21:44 11/03/2008
The European Union is to give the government of Kosovo over $385 million to prepare for admission into the EU, the head of the European Commission Liaison Office in Kosovo said Tuesday.
- 15:09 11/03/2008
About 20 senior officials of the EU's police and justice mission (EULEX) in Kosovo have arrived in Pristina, the mission's head French General Yves de Karmebon said on Tuesday.
- 09:37 11/03/2008
Russia's delegation to the United Nations Security Council successfully blocked British and American attempts to thwart a council meeting set for Tuesday on Kosovo, a diplomatic source in the UN said.
- 19:26 08/03/2008
President Vladimir Putin said Saturday Russia could recognize Kosovo's independence only in line with international law, and if Serbia agrees to that.
- 09:32 07/03/2008
On Serbia's request, Russia has called for a session of the UN Security Council to be held next Tuesday to discuss Kosovo, a spokesperson for Russia's office to the UN told reporters on Friday.
- 20:59 05/03/2008
Serb's foreign minister left for New York on Wednesday to urge the UN to convene a special meeting to discuss Kosovo's independence, the country's Foreign Ministry said.
- 22:10 04/03/2008
Russia's Foreign Ministry warned on Tuesday that forcing Serbs living in Kosovo to recognize the province's independence, declared on February 17, would further destabilize the situation.
- 18:15 29/02/2008
Countries recognizing the unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo are encouraging separatist tendencies all over the world, Russia's envoy to the European Union said on Friday.
- 13:13 29/02/2008
Russia's UN envoy called the planned police and justice mission to Kosovo "illegal," during a closed-doors UN Security Council meeting.
- 20:47 28/02/2008
Serbia is continuing to recall its ambassadors from those countries, which have officially recognized Kosovo's independence, as it summoned diplomatic heads in Austria and Switzerland home Thursday.
- 21:14 27/02/2008
Kosovo is preparing documentation to enable it to gain membership in major international organizations, the prime minister of the self-proclaimed state said on Wednesday.
- 19:14 27/02/2008
The UN mission in Kosovo has drafted a plan to hand over power to a new European Union mission and the local government, the UN mission press secretary said on Wednesday.
- 19:52 26/02/2008
Bosnian Serb protestors rallying against independence for Kosovo have attempted to storm the U.S. consulate in the city of Banja Luka, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Beta agency reported on Tuesday.
- 15:31 26/02/2008
The country's parliamentary speaker, Bronislaw Komorowski, had earlier said that "I believe that Poland will be among those states to recognize the independence of Kosovo, guided, in principle, by the fact that no one has found an effective way to bring together two mortal ethnic enemies."
- 11:40 26/02/2008
Belgium has formally recognized Kosovo's unilateral independence, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
- 18:09 25/02/2008
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Russia acted in line with international laws by supporting Serbia's efforts to regain its territorial integrity.
- 14:56 25/02/2008
First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reaffirmed on Monday that Russia will maintain a firm stand on territorial integrity of Serbia.
- 18:50 24/02/2008
Russia will never use force to solve the problem of Kosovo, which unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia, Russia's envoy to NATO said on Sunday.
- 15:23 24/02/2008
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Sunday slammed as cynical the U.S. position on Kosovo, which unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia.
- 21:25 22/02/2008
- 16:44 22/02/2008
- 13:01 22/02/2008
Protests against Kosovo's independence, the largest in Serbia's history, turned into running street riots in Belgrade overnight leaving over 150 people injured.
- 09:30 22/02/2008
The UN Security Council condemned attacks on the U.S. embassy in Belgrade by rioters protesting against Kosovo's independence.
- 23:16 21/02/2008
A total of 75 people have been injured in street protests against Kosovo independence in Belgrade, including 15 policemen, doctors said Thursday.
- 21:34 21/02/2008
Russia's foreign minister called on Thursday for talks on the status of Kosovo, whose parliament declared independence on February 17, to be resumed.
- 20:42 21/02/2008
- 21:54 20/02/2008
Serbia will utilize all possible political and diplomatic means to maintain the country's territorial integrity in the wake of Kosovo's declaration of independence, its foreign minister said on Wednesday.
- 18:15 20/02/2008
The U.K. has appointed David Blunt as its first ambassador to Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia on Sunday, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday.
- 12:53 20/02/2008
Russian proposals on Kosovo's status, earlier submitted to the UN Security Council, remain in force, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday.
- 20:36 19/02/2008
The Serbian foreign minister called on the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to condemn Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence on Tuesday.
- 19:43 19/02/2008
"We lost our influence there long ago. We... betrayed our fraternal Slavic nation, we should have prevented it back then, there would not have been any question of independence today," Lukashenko said in an interview with RIA Novosti and the Russia Today TV channel.
- 15:28 19/02/2008
Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence will destroy the entire system of international law and cause a chain reaction of similar moves, a Russian first deputy prime minister said on Tuesday.
- 15:05 19/02/2008
Serbia regrets that the UN Security Council was unable to solve such a principal issue as Kosovo, Serbia's ambassador to Russia said on Tuesday.
- 14:03 19/02/2008
The deployment of a EU mission to Kosovo without the permission of the UN Security Council violates UN resolution 1244, Russia's envoy to the UN said on Tuesday.
- 13:36 19/02/2008
Several thousand Serbs gathered in the town of Kosovska-Mitrovica to protest against Sunday’s unilateral proclamation of independence by Kosovo
- 10:27 19/02/2008
Belgrade has recalled its ambassador from the U.S. over Washington's recognition of Kosovo, as the rift among the international community deepened on Tuesday.
- 20:13 18/02/2008
Russia hopes that the UN Security Council will annul as illegitimate Kosovo's unilateral declaration of sovereignty, a Russian official said on Monday.
- 20:13 18/02/2008
A day after Kosovo declared unilateral independence from Serbia, the consequences of Sunday's historic events look set to resound across Europe and beyond for many years to come.
- 19:22 18/02/2008
- 18:39 18/02/2008
Kosovo, which unilaterally declared independence on Sunday, could eventually become a part of Albania, Serbia's ambassador to Russia said on Monday.
- 18:39 18/02/2008
Serbia is set to lose real estate worth some $220 billion following Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence on Sunday, the Tanjug news agency said on Monday.
- 13:29 18/02/2008
- 12:49 18/02/2008
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon called for calm in the aftermath of Sunday's declaration of independence by Kosovo as Western powers prepared to recognize the sovereignty of the world's 'newest state'.
- 20:08 17/02/2008
"We have waited for this day for a very long time," Kosovan Prime Minister Hashim Thaci told a packed parliament at the start of an emergency session called on Sunday afternoon to, as he said, "take decisions on the future of our nation."
- 20:02 17/02/2008
Georgia does not intend to recognize Kosovo's independence, and the issue is not on the agenda, a parliamentary spokesman for the former Soviet republic said on Sunday.
- 18:26 17/02/2008
Kosovo declared independence on Sunday after an emergency session of parliament, with Prime Minister Hashim Thaci saying the new state would be "proud, independent and free."
- 16:06 17/02/2008
Warsaw is likely to recognize the sovereignty of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo, Poland's parliamentary speaker told journalists on Sunday.
- 13:29 17/02/2008
Thousand of residents of Pristina, the capital of Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo, have taken to the streets to celebrate the impending declaration of independence by the Albanian-dominated region.
- 12:04 16/02/2008
The European Union gave its final approval for sending a civilian and police mission to Serbia's breakaway Kosovo to replace the current UN mission, diplomatic sources in Brussels said on Saturday.
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