Radovan Karadzic claimed again before the Hague tribunal that the explosion at the Sarajevo Markale market in 1994-95, where citizens were killed and wounded, was “prearranged” and “produced” by bringing the corpses from frontlines, in order to push NATO to the war in Bosnia.

Milorad Dodik, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats leader (SNSD), and Mladen Bosic, the Serbian Democratic Party leader (SDS), have agreed about most positions concering the joint platform draft for the two parties in the institutions of Bosnia and Herzgovina, and one of them is that if Bosnia and Herzegovina is invited to join NATO in the future, the citizens of Republic of Srpska should pronounce themselves in a referendum.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh, visited Kremlin yesterday in order to discuss missile defense, Euro-Atlantic security and cooperation in Afghanistan with Russia.

Russia hopes that NATO’s new strategy to be passed in Lisbon in November will provide for collective defenses which stay within the bounds of the international law.

Suspected militants attacked and set fire to at least 20 oil tankers in Pakistan en route to NATO forces in Afghanistan, police said.

Serbian authorities are pondering a number of missions European Union is involved in and, in accordance with the domestic capacities, Serbia will offer the engagement of members of the army, police and Emergency Situations Sector service, as confirmed by Serbian Minister of Defence, Dragan Sutanovac.

Serbia’s office with the NATO Program Partnership for Peace in Brussels has become operational yesterday, stated Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac.

The Czech defence minister says his country will withdraw 300 peacekeepers from Kosovo to free up troops for NATO’s Afghanistan mission.

NATO has invoked “self-defense” to justify the week-end cross-border raids by its helicopters in Pakistan’s tribal regions along the Afghan border in which dozens of Islamist militiamen were killed.

In an interview with the Voice of Russia on Thursday, Russia’s NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin urged full-fledged collaboration between the alliance and Moscow, which he said will remain the two’s top priority for months to come. Rogozin said he does not rule out President Dmitry Medvedev’s participation in the upcoming Russia-NATO summit.