Serbia hopes to sign EU pact on January 28: foreign minister
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Serbia hopes to sign a key aid and trade pact with the European Union before the end of this month, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said Tuesday, as its province of Kosovo heads toward independence.
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The U.N. mediator on Kosovo's future status said on Thursday he was willing to grant Serbia more time to consider his complex plan that most see as paving the way for the province's independence from Belgrade.
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New European Union president Slovenia  said on Tuesday it wanted Serbia to take a key step towards  future membership this month, but acknowledged some EU states  needed to be convinced.
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The sensitive issue of energy supplies is to feature in a renewed pact between Moscow and the European Union, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said ahead of a meeting with top officials from the bloc.
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The chief UN war crimes prosecutor says EU talks on co-operation with Serbia resume as soon as possible.
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EU foreign ministers offer to resume talks on closer ties with Serbia if the country takes steps to catch war crimes suspects.
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War crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte is confident that Ratko Mladic will soon be handed over for trial. That's because Serbia's government wants to get on with joining the EU
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The European Union will not sign a pact on ties with Serbia this week as planned after its nationalist prime minister blocked the move, a top EU official said on Wednesday.
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EU ministers vow to remain united on the future of Kosovo if Serbs and ethnic Albanians fail to agree.
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The European Union has welcomed the re-election of Serbia's pro-Western president.  Will it get Serbia an early EU entry?
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Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica greeted the resumption of suspended talks with the European Union on Wednesday by urging the EU to back down on its support for the independence of Kosovo.
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The Serbian minister for Kosovo said Friday that his government has information that the province's Albanian leadership will declare independence on Feb. 17.
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Turkey&#39;s Justice Minister Cemil Cicek sounded extremely optimistic on Sunday: &quot;Now the European Union&#39;s going to give us a date for negotiations,&quot; he told parliament after
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Serbia's President expects Russia,  China and some other U.N. Security Council members to back  further talks on the status of Kosovo, though the West says all  avenues of possible compromise have been exhausted.
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Russia's foreign minister said in a  television interview on Friday it was "not impossible" that the  European Union could take over the U.N.'s role in the breakaway  Serbian province of Kosovo, provided Belgrade agreed.
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"It is completely up in the air at the moment"  EU foreign ministers will debate on Monday whether to sign an interim trade agreement with Serbia -- a move seen as boosting pro-European President Boris Tadic ahead of a February 3 presidential run-off. Tadic ... via Reuters UK
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The EU says a political dispute in Serbia has prompted a delay in signing a co-operation deal.