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Belgrade: Serb Radical Party (SRS) leads with 33.2 percent support; the coalition of four parties gathered around President Boris Tadic’s Democrats (DS) is in second place with 31.5 percent; and Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica’s Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and his coalition partners New Serbia are third with 13.8 percent support – articulated a new [...]

Jean Marie Guehenno, the UN head of peacekeeping operations, said yesterday in Belgrade that the UN wants to have peace and stability in the Balkans as its legacy.

Speaking in Leskovac, the New Serbia leader Velimir Ilic, who is also the infrastructure minister in the caretaker Kostunica cabinet, said yesterday that the DSS-NS coalition “totally rules out forming a new government with the Tadic list”.

Belgrade: Serbian Education Minister Zoran Loncar, who is also a high-ranking official of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), yesterday called on Serbian President Boris Tadic to reveal in public “who is that special representative of his that is denouncing Serbian Prime Minister (Vojislav Kostunica) to foreigners.”

Belgrade: Serbia has now signed the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA); it will enter the EU within four years, stated the Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Delic yesterday.

Belgrade: Serbia’s Electoral Commission (RIK) yesterday released voter tally, according to which, there are total 6,747,867 registered voters in Serbia, and there are a total of 91,639 registered voters in Kosovo.

Vuk Draskovic, the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) leader, yesterday stated that Serbia is doomed if it does not choose the European path at the next elections.

Belgrade: It’s now crystal clear that Serbia is determined to hold local elections in Kosovo on 11 May, 2008, despite strong opposition from UNMIK and UN. The Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) has fabricated rules on the commission’s structure for holding municipal elections in Kosovo.

Slobodan Samardzic, Minister for Kosovo said late Saturday that the EU mission to Kosovo is illegal, with no legal framework present for it to replace UNMIK.

PRISTINA: The Resolution 1244 doesn’t allow Serbia to organize local elections in Kosovo, said Chairwoman of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Southeastern Europe Doris Pack late Saturday.