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BRUSSELS - EU spokesperson Peter Stano said on Friday the Brussels and Ohrid agreements from the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue were legally binding in their entirety to both parties and that their comprehensive implementation was an integral part of the parties' EU paths.

BUDAPEST - If the European Council includes the Brussels and Ohrid agreements in Serbia's EU accession talks, which Serbia opposes, Belgrade can always count on Hungary, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban told Tanjug in an interview.

BRUSSELS - The next technical-level meeting of the chief negotiators of Belgrade and Pristina, Petar Petkovic and Besnik Bislimi, will be held in Brussels on November 16, diplomatic sources have told Tanjug.

The parties last met in Brussels on October 26, when EU representatives held separate meetings with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Pristina's PM Albin Kurti.

BRUSSELS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday evening after a series of meetings with European officials in Brussels that Serbia, in line with its policy, had said clearly it wanted all agreements signed in the dialogue with Pristina implemented, from a fundamental agreement from 2013 to agreements later reached in Brussels and Ohrid.

LONDON - Commenting on the latest developments in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Tuesday they were another provocation by Pristina's PM Albin Kurti, who she said was causing a fresh escalation and a new wave of violence to avoid commitments from the Brussels and Ohrid agreements, including the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities.

"Thirty KFOR soldiers, of whom 19 Hungarians and 11 Italians, were injured on Monday in a cowardly attack by urban guerrillas. I am with them and their families. Nine Italians are in the hospital at the Camp Villaggio base in Italy, one was admitted to a health facility in Pristina, and one in Skopje. None of them are life-threatening, they will recover quickly," said Ristuccia.

BELGRADE - Serbian Ambassador to the US Marko Djuric said on Friday that, compared to some European states, the US was more insistent on implementation of agreements on a Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija.

OHRID - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in Ohrid, North Macedonia, on Saturday evening some kind of agreement had been made in a new round of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and that he was pleased with that, and noted that he had not signed anything and that "this was no D-Day."

Sofia has expressed "concern" after North Macedonia's Justice Minister, Krenar Loga, on Thursday banned a Bulgarian club from being named after a Bulgarian nationalist who became a Nazi collaborator, after a state commission in charge of advising on such issues recommended the move.

Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday adopted a declaration condemning the recent attack on a Bulgarian activist in neighbouring North Macedonia, an alleged "anti-Bulgarian campaign" in the country and warning that this could derail Skopje's EU integration.