Office for Kosovo-Metohija

BELGRADE - The Serbian government on Tuesday decided to annul all the legal consequences of acts and actions by the interim self-government institutions in Pristina regarding the factual and legal position of the Trepca mining complex, PM Aleksandar Vucic said.

"We were compelled to make such a decision as we want Trepca to continue to operate," he told a press conference.

ZVECAN - A large group of Serb protesters gathered in Rudare near Zvecan, northern Kosovo-Metohija, on Friday to call for a withdrawal of Kosovo's draft bill on the Trepca mining complex, warning that usurpations of Serbia's property in the province could be a threat to the ethnic composition in Serb communities there.

ZVECAN - A large group of Serb protesters gathered in Rudare near Zvecan, northern Kosovo-Metohija, on Friday to call for a withdrawal of Kosovo's draft bill on the Trepca mining complex, warning that usurpations of Serbia's property in the province could be a threat to the ethnic composition in Serb communities there.

BELGRADE - Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hodzaj has banned Marko Djuric, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, from entering Kosovo-Metohija for the next two weeks, Pristina's Ekspress daily reported Monday.

Hodzaj made the decision following consultations with Prime Minister Isa Mustafa and security institutions in Kosovo-Metohija, the paper reported.

BRUSSELS - Belgrade has not agreed to establishment of "telecommunication enclaves" for Kosovo Serbs, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, said Friday after the Belgrade and Pristina delegations had failed to reach a deal on the implementation of an agreement on telecommunications following days of talks in Brussels.

BRUSSELS - There was no visible progress or official statements late Wednesday following three days of this week's Belgrade-Pristina talks on telecommunications.

BRUSSELS - The discussions in the technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will resume in Brussels on Monday.

Scheduled to conclude on September 29, this round of the dialogue will primarily address the implementation of an agreement on telecommunications.

GRACANICA - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, has told reporters a gross and illegal attempt to arrest him and deport him from Kosovo had been made in Gracanica Wednesday night.

BRUSSELS - A deal preventing a scrapping of Serbian vehicle registration plates in Kosovo-Metohija and extending the validity of status-neutral KS plates for another five years has been agreed in the technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

BELGRADE - The deputy head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Dusan Kozarev, on Monday presented to Chaloka Beyani, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, the concept of the Sunny Valley returnee settlement in Kosovo-Metohija and the obstacles to a greater sustainable return of IDPs.