Pristina  - Kosovo officials on Friday granted Serbian president Boris Tadic permission for a "private visit" to Kosovo, government officials told the German Press Agency dpa.

The Serbian president will visit the Decani monastery in western Kosovo and spend Orthodox Good Friday there with monks and believers, Tadic's cabinet told Belgrade media. The cabinet said that Tadic had not formally requested a permit to enter Kosovo.

Belgrade  - Serbian president Boris Tadic has called for the National Security Council to meet Monday to discuss the public rift between Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac and Chief of General Staff Zdravko Ponos.

"Because of their disagreement in public, each of them has a responsibility and I will analyse and propose measures all in line with my powers," Tadic told Vecernje Novosti daily on Saturday.

The conflict began when Ponos ordered generals not to attend Sutanovac's New Year reception and later when he accused the Defence Ministry of incompetence.

Belgrade - Pro-European Serbian President Boris Tadic's Democratic Party (DS) and the Serbian Socialist party (SPS) (of the late former president Slobodan Milosevic), formally reconciled on Saturday, four months after agreeing to build a coalition government.

The DS and SPS jointly declared Serbian membership of the European Union as their goal, while - in a reference to the declaration of the former-Serbian province of Kosovo in February - pledging to preserve "the full integrity of Serbia."

Belgrade  - Serbian President Boris Tadic Tuesday said that he was not planning to propose a partition of the breakaway Kosovo, but neither did he rule the idea out, while authorities in Pristina angrily did.

"Partition is being discussed in Serbia and the international community and it has been one of the options during all these years," Tadic told an evening press conference. "That option I can consider only when all other options are spent."

New York- Serbia's President Boris Tadic on Friday rebuffed UN Secretary General Ba

New York  - Serbian President Boris Tadic told th