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BELGRADE - Tanjug reporter Andjelko Utjesanovic, who was on Wednesday denied entry to Kosovo-Metohija, says claims by the so-called Kosovo Police that he was allowed to enter the territory are untrue.

MERDARE - Tanjug reporter Andjelko Utjesanovic was denied entry to Kosovo-Metohija by the so-called Kosovo Police at the Merdare administrative crossing on Wednesday afternoon.

Utjesanovic was to report on Serbian Patriarch Porfirije's visit to Serbian holy sites in Kosovo-Metohija.

MERDARE - Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Wednesday began a visit to Kosovo-Metohija, where he will celebrate Christmas with Serbs living in the province.

Accompanied by a delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the patriarch will first visit the Patriarchate of Pec and then also Visoki Decani, Gracanica and other monasteries.

NEW YORK - Serbia's Consul-General in New York Vladimir Bozovic has met with Archbishop Elpidophoros in the seat of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America to discuss many current topics of mutual interest, Serbia's consulate-general in New York said in a statement.

Ministry of Culture of the Temporary Pristina Institutions, in its campaign of appropriating the material and spiritual heritage of the Serbian Orthodox Church, started the alleged "renovation" of the Orthodox church in the village of Gornje Vinarce, seven kilometers from Mitrovica, on the north side of the Ibar River, it was announced on the Facebook page of the City of Mitrovica.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Thursday Pristina's usurpation of the Rajska banja spa complex near Zvecan was a sheer robbery of private property owned by the Serbian Orthodox Church.

PARIS - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo on Friday before the Paris Peace Forum.

"A cordial meeting with a great friend of ours, the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, before the start of the Paris Peace Forum," Vucic wrote in a post on his buducnostsrbijeav Instagram account.

BRUSSELS - The EU on Friday refuted Pristina PM Albin Kurti's claims that he tabled the only proposal at Thursday's meeting of the Brussels dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

SRBAC - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday thanked Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church for his patience and understanding during a meeting at the Osovica monastery in the Republika Srpska municipality of Srbac earlier in the day.

SRBAC - The presidents of Serbia and Republika Srpska, Aleksandar Vucic and Milorad Dodik, and Patriarch Porfirije of the Serbian Orthodox Church are holding a discussion on the most significant national issues, Tanjug learns.