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DUBAI - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan in Dubai on Monday.

On the fringes of the World Government Summit, they discussed bilateral relations and further advancement of economic cooperation.

Brnabic conveyed Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's greetings to al Nahyan.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said on Monday diplomatic activities aimed at resolving the Kosovo-Metohija issue had been stepped up but that the same was the case with pressure, and noted that EU special envoy Miroslav Lajcak's visit to Belgrade this evening was an additional form of pressure.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday Serbia must maintain balance, protect the vital interests of its people in Kosovo-Metohija and stop the so-called Kosovo from joining the UN.

At a special parliament session on Kosovo-Metohija, Vucic said he would consider that a victory for Serbia.

On the agenda of the special session of the Assembly of Serbia is the Government's "Report on the negotiation process with the institutions of temporary self-government in Pristina, from September 1, 2022, to January 15, 2023".

The UN Security Council just renewed the mandate for UNFICYP - the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus - for another year instead of for six months. The renewal comes amid controversy over the UN Secretary General's Special Representative in Cyprus, and is also occurring less than a week before the first round of presidential elections in Cyprus.

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has confirmed Greece's commitment in pursuing a fair and viable solution to the Cyprus problem in a meeting with the island's outgoing President Nicos Anastasiades at the Presidential Mansion Wednesday.

The comments come amid speculation about Washington's possible involvement in a recent drone attack on an Iranian military factory.
"Using the military option at any level means US entering into war," Tehran's permanent mission to the UN told Newsweek on Monday. Iran currently considers such a possibility to be weak, according to the statement.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has criticized a decision of the United Nation's Security Council of extending the mandate of the global body's peacekeeping force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) for one year rather than six months as it extends every year, saying that it disregards Turkish Cyprus' will and insists on models that have already been tried and failed.

Greek Cypriots want UN reports on the Cyprus problem to continue ever six months, but sources say the Security Council is leaning towards an annual extension at least for the peacekeeping force mandate following "no meaningful progress" on the issue.

Italian energy giant Eni signed an $8 billion gas deal with Libya's state-run National Oil Corporation on Jan. 28 as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Tripoli.