Feb 27 - UNMIK Chief Harri Holkeri has told representatives of Kosovo Serb coalition Povratak that he will include their remarks as well as those by the United Nations and Contact Group in the final version of the plan for the implementation of standards for Kosovo

March 3 - The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will continue on March 4, when representatives of the working groups for energy will meet in Pristina

Feb 27 - Privatised companies in Serbia employ some 360,000 workers, putting the number of Serbia's private sector employees at around 760,000, Serbian Privatisation Agency Director Mirko Cvetkovic said at a round table meeting on Thursday, stressing that the private sector has taken over the country's economy

March 3 - The Serbian parliament appointed on Wednesday Vojislav Kostunica as prime minister and approved his proposed 18-member cabinet by a vote of 130 to 113, with one abstention

March 2 - After a new government is formed, outgoing Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic will hand over office to the new prime minister. The ceremony will take place at the main government building, 11 Nemanjina St

March 2 - The Serbian parliament has today begun its first regular session, with the election of the new Serbian government on the agenda. Parliament Speaker and Acting Serbian President Dragan Marsicanin proposed President of the Democratic Party of Serbia Vojislav Kostunica as Prime Minister Designate. Kostunica presented the programme of the new government and named his cabinet in an address to parliament members

March 2 - Serbian Minister of Justice Vladan Batic said on Monday that the intervention of UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri with the Hungarian authorities to secure the release of commander of the Kosovo Protection Corps Agim Ceku, arrested on Feb 29, is an act of the abuse of office. Ceku was arrested on an Interpol warrant issued by Belgrade for genocide against Serbs in the province

March 1 - Serbian Minister of Finance and Economy Bozidar Djelic said that the Ministry has spent the past three years trying to reform public finance, stressing that there can be no state without good public finance management

March 1 - The Serbian government adopted on Thursday conclusions on further activities to implement a programme called "A Green Vinca," including the dismantling of the RA nuclear reactor and the removal from it of radioactive fuel, which is to be shipped and temporarily stored in Russia

March 1 - The US Department of State said in its annual report on human rights practices across the world that ethnic and religious tensions are still present in Kosovo-Metohija, that there were different forms of violence, politically and ethnically motivated killings, kidnappings and restrictions of the freedom of movement for members of non-Albanian ethnic communities

March 1 - Representatives of Coalition Povratak (Return) have handed over their objections to the Kosovo standards implementation plan to UNMIK officials, demanding that certain solutions stemming from the Kosovo standards document be annulled or clarified

Feb 27 - Serbian Commissioner for Refugees Ozren Tosic said that the Commissariat is negotiating a €20 million loan with the Council of Europe Development Bank, stressing that the funding will be used to disburse soft housing loans to refugees