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Recent suggestions by the prime minister of the Bosnian Serb Republic, Milorad Dodik, that Bosnian Serbs do not see their future as part of Bosnia-Herzegovina has raised concern in the West, which is pushing for a strong central government. Since the end of the war in 1995, Bosnia-Herzegovina has been comprised of two entities, a Serb Republic and a Muslim-Croat federation. Seska Stanojlovic is foreign editor of the news weekly, Vreme, in Belgrade. She says, for Serbs, the situation in Bosnia is directly linked to what is likely to happen in Kosovo, the Albanian majority U.N.-administered province that is seeking...

"As todays Belgrade "Novosti" dayly sais, sources from Serbian goverment confirmet that Amrti Akhtisaary, UN negotiator on kosovo status talks have offered to Serbian goverment, facing his own failiure as mediator of negotiations, DEAL in which Serbia should give indipendance to Muslim occupied Kosovo region and recive in return 1. Serbia joining "Partnership For Peace" without extradicting Ratko Mladic to hague 2. Serbia Joining to EU, without extradicing ratko Mladic to Hague 3. US financial aid 4. EU financial founds access 5. Growing of direct foreighn investments in Serbia. As source add, this was rejected strongly by Serbian goverment, that...

MOSCOW, January 30 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that he seek universal approaches in resolving the Kosovo problem. Lavrov, at a conference in the Kremlin on Monday, briefed the president on the upcoming meeting of the Contact Group on Kosovo settlement at the ministerial level. The present time is the crucial stage at the settlement as the talks on determining the final status of Kosovo have begun, Lavrov said. "We'll be guided by our position of the necessity of finding a solution which would be acceptable both for Belgrade and Albanian leaders," the...