A session of the Serbian parliament was interrupted Thursday when a member of the opposition Radical Party threw her shoes at the chairman of the parliamentary session, Belgrade media reported. The shoes missed their target but the session was interrupted for a short time.

Gordana Pop-Lazic from the ultranationalist Radical Party threw her shoes at Gordana Comic, from the ruling Democratic Party, because she was unhappy with Comic's decision not to allow another representative of the Radical Party to speak to the parliament.

Serbia blundered in the search for its most wanted fugitive war crimes suspect, Ratko Mladic, when it arrested his helpers years ago instead of trailing them, the country's prosecutor for war crimes said in an interview released Tuesday. Acting on orders of the government task force in charge of tracking down Mladic, police arrested several of his helpers in 2006, cutting the trail which may have led to him, prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic told the daily Vecernje Novosti.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel sees "good prospects" for Serbia's attempts to join the European Union despite disagreements over the status of Kosovo. Merkel was speaking at a joint press conference with Serbian President Boris Tadic, who was received in Berlin Monday to meet with the chancellor as well as German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and business leaders.

Podgorica - Montenegrins will vote in early parliamentary polls on Sunday, but though their country is teetering on the verge of a major economic crisis, the only issue is whether Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic will barely win again, or win an absolute majority.

The country's top exporter, the Podgorica aluminium combine KAP, is about to collapse under the burden of debts running into hundreds of millions of dollars. The 2,700 workers, who have received no payment in months are now planning to launch massive public protests.

Belgrade - Serbia is the crossroads of the Balkans, straddling the shortest route between Western Europe and the Middle East, but still it has been losing lucrative transit traffic to its neighbours.

The pan-European corridor 10, from western Austria, via Slovenia and Croatia, runs through the Serbian capital Belgrade as the fastest, best-developed and shortest road to Thessaloniki in Greece and Istanbul in Turkey.

But "because of time and cost, Serbia is out of the question," says Ingo Noe, an agent with the German shipping firm Willi Betz.

Several people were injured and arrested during clashes on Sunday between Serbian veterans and the police, Belgrade media reported.

"In the UN Security Council Serb position will be very clear - we do not accept Kosovo's independence under any form".

Serbian President Boris Tadic said this in an interview for the Serbian agency Fonet.

Serbian head of state believes that only the UN Security Council has the power to change the mission of the UN Civil Administration in Kosovo UNMIK.

As it was expected Serbia reacted strongly to the Constitution of Kosovo and did not recognize its promulgation.

Belgrade announced that the Serbs in northern Kosovo would establish their own government, along with that of Kosovo.