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BELGRADE - Belgrade wants a continuation of the dialogue with Pristina in a status-neutral way that also implies that Pristina does not begin every discussion with references to "genocide" or "ethnic cleansing" allegedly committed by Serbia, FM Ivica Dacic said Thursday.

Serbian Foreign Minister Dacic told at a press conference on Thursday that he might have been wrong to walk out of a meeting in Warsaw over comments he said were made by his Kosovo counterpart, Enver Hoxhaj.

"I might have made a mistake, but at that moment that was how I felt," he said.

Journalist, academic and columnist Professor L. Doğan Tılıç received Malaga University's UNESCO Chair 7th International Press Freedom Award on Dec. 1.

Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says he left a meeting in Warsaw on Tuesday "because of the insults made by Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj."

Dacic said on Wednesday that Hoxhaj accused Serbs of being guilty for "all wars in the former Yugoslavia and for genocide."

BELGRADE - Serbian police have arrested 11 people in separate operations - mostly in the northern Vojvodina province - on suspicion of crimes including murders, attempted murders, illegal drug trade and prison escapes, and a large quantity of weapons and ammo has been seized as well, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Friday.

BRUSSELS - A Brussels court has sentenced Serbian nationals Veselin Vukotic, Andrija Draskovic and Bozidar Spasic to life imprisonment for the murder of Kosovo human rights activist Enver Hadri in Brussels 26 years ago.

The jury handed maximum jail terms to the three men, sentencing Vukotic and Draskovic as the perpetrators and Spasic as the mastermind of the killing.

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BELGRADE - A photograph of Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic holding Independent State of Croatia (NDH) flag appeared on social networks, reported Croatian portal "Indeks".

Russia on Tuesday flatly dismissed a call by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic for Russia and Ukraine to draw on the experience on the peace agreement signed in Croatia in the 1990s.

While the vast majority of properties have been returned or their owners compensated, several major cases are still pending.

The US president's visit to Athens undoubtedly constitutes the most closely followed event of recent days. It is of paramount significance to note that this is the first trip made by any sitting president of the United States to our country, which does not coincide with the involvement of either party in fierce diplomatic or military disputes. During Dwight D.