OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna

Tanjug reported this, citing TASS.

"The Serbian Orthodox Church still faces mistreatment. Kosovo Albanians are trying to impose an economic blockade on it, to deprive it of its property and all means of subsistence," the Russian diplomat told a session of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on Thursday.

Starting on Friday and for the next year, Germany will hold the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Germany will formally assume this role during a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna, on January 14. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will present the program and priorities of his country's presidency.

BELGRADE - Thursday's decision by the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna to extend the mandate of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) and allocate necessary resources confirms the support and commitment of all 57 participating States to implementing the Minsk agreements and to the Mission, said OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic discussed with UK's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on the phone on Monday improvements to bilateral relations, his upcoming visit to Belgrade, EU integration and Serbia's OSCE chairmanship.

FM: EU made "no official request" regarding Kosovo

BELGRADE -- Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Sunday Serbia's stance not to recognize the unilaterally declared independence of Kosovo remains unchanged.

The EU "has not officially requested this from Serbia," he told a regular monthly news conference.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said on Sunday that Serbia's OSCE chairmanship starting as of January 1 is a great challenge, but also a chance for Serbia to show that it could play the role of a fair mediator in peaceful resolution of conflicts.

Serbia's OSCE presidency, "great challenge"

BASEL -- Serbian Foreign Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic has said that the Serbian chairmanship of the OSCE will be "a great challenge and responsibility."

The Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe is to send international monitors to Ukraine within 24 hours.

Europe's leading security organization announced Saturday its teams, comprising a total of 100 members, will be stationed in various regions, including south-eastern areas where violence had erupted amid tensions ahead of Crimea's secessionist referendum.