Kosovo

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with newly-appointed head of the Council of Europe (CoE) Office in Serbia Janos Babity on Friday to discuss cooperation to date and continuation of cooperation with the CoE on existing as well as new programmes.

BRUSSELS - Serbia's Ambassador to NATO Branimir Filipovic says Serbia-NATO cooperation has been "continuously very good", with a high level of communication at various levels, and that it is very important for preserving peace and security in Kosovo-Metohija, NATO being the only legal military force in the territory under UNSCR 1244.

The Republic of Serbia paid their salaries, but in Potanska tedionica, due to the decision of the Central Bank of Pristina, there were no dinars.
Sladjana Milenkovi, one of those gathered in front of the Savings Bank, said that she was outraged by the decision of the Pristina authorities, which greatly complicates everyday life.

PRISTINA - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said on Tuesday he had met with Pristina's chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi to discuss implementation of the Ohrid Agreement and the so-called Kosovo central bank's ban on the Serbian dinar and announced he would host a Brussels meeting of chief negotiators in the coming days.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The so-called Kosovo Police said on Monday it had arrested a Serb suspected of allegedly having committed a war crime.

In a statement, it said the 70-year-old man, identified with the initials Z N, had been arrested in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica for allegedly committing a "war crime against civilians - sexual violence" in the Vucitrn municipality in 1999.

BELGRADE - At a meeting with German Ambassador to Belgrade Anke Konrad, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic warned that an expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija and abolition of Serbian institutions in the province were the real reasons behind Pristina's ban on the Serbian dinar, which took effect on February 1.

TIRANA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday Ukraine was a friend of Serbia and that, most importantly, it did not recognise the so-called Kosovo.

BELGRADE  By sending a technical delegation to Brussels, Pristina practically boycotted Tuesday's dialogue about the suspension of the Serbian dinar in Kosovo-Metohija, the outgoing chairman of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Wednesday, noting that the West was not criticising Pristina PM Albin Kurti's decision on the dinar but only the manner in wh

BRUSSELS, - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said on Tuesday, after a series of Brussels meetings following a decision by the so-called central bank of Kosovo to ban the Serbian dinar, that many political questions remained unanswered.

BRUSSELS - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said in Brussels Belgrade's delegation in Tuesday's round of the dialogue with Pristina had demonstrated full commitment to solve problems and that a solution must be found to ensure dinar payments to Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.