Pristina

BELGRADE - A group of Russian journalists from theNews Front agency has been detained in Kosovo, the news agency's director Konstantin Knyrik told Interfax.

Agim Demaku, a resident of Pristina, is waiting impatiently in line at the civil registration office for provisional license plates that will enable him to drive abroad.

The contract with the company that supplies permanent plates expired months ago, and for now citizens of Kosovo can only get the temporary ones, which only Albania accepts.

BELGRADE - Ensuring a sustainable return to Kosovo-Metohija calls for greater engagement on returnee safety and security, as well as on the internally displaced persons' exercise of property rights, Chaloka Beyani, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, said Monday.

BELGRADE - It is good that Germany recognises the constructive role Serbia is playing in the region, Minister for European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic said Monday, adding that Serbia would continue to enhance its bilateral relations with Germany.

BRUSSELS - Meeting with Kosovo FM Enver Hodzaj at the European Commission (EC) headquarters in Brussels on Monday, European Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn noted the significance of progress in the process of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, will head a delegation that will participate in the continuing expert-level dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels.

The technical dialogue will resume on Tuesday and continue on Wednesday, the Office announced in a statement.

Delegations of Belgrade and Pristina continued their expert level negotiations on Wednesday in Brussels.

Some progress was made regarding telecommunications during the 13 hours of negotiations on Tuesday, but some key issues remained open.

Marko Djuric will head a delegation that will participate in the continuing expert-level dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels.

Djuric is the director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo.

BRUSSELS - The Serbian Office for Kosovo-Metohija has reiterated in a statement to Tanjug there was still no agreement with Pristina on registration plates.

BRUSSELS - No final agreement on vehicle registration plates has been reached in the technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, says European Commission spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic.