Marko Djuric

Prime minister, ministers travel to Kosovo

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and a number of members of his cabinet will be in Kosovo and Metohija on Wednesday.

They will visit Pasjane, Strpce, and Gracanica. According to announcements, this will be "the first time since 1999 that a Serbian prime minister travels to Pasjane, Strpce, and Kosovsko Pomoravlje."

Prime Minister Vucic said on Monday that Serbia was still on its way towards membership of the EU despite press speculation about whether he could maintain good relations with Brussels after he accused the EU of helping to spread lies to destabilise his administration.

Vucic said however that Belgrade also has an "independent policy, created with no influence from any other source".

Serbian officials said that Vucic will pay his first visit to Kosovo this week since becoming Prime Minister of Serbia in April 2014, most likely on Wednesday.

Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government office for Kosovo, said Vucic planned to visit Gracanica, a large Serbian enclave near Pristina, as well as Serb-run municipalities in central Kosovo, Pasjane and Strpce.

BANJALUKA - President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik underscored on Friday that RS will never give its consent for Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) to recognise Kosovo's independence unilaterally declared by ethnic Albanians in the southern Serbian province.

BANJALUKA - Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric wished the citizens of the Republika Srpska (RS) a happy national holiday - Day of Republika Srpska - and urged them to show unity and solidarity with the southern Serbian province.

Kosovo office head urges solidarity

NOVO BRDO -- Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director Marko Djuric visited a soup kitchen in the village of Prekovce, in Kosovo for Orthodox Christmas on Wednesday.

NOVO BRDO - Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric visited the soup kitchen in the village of Prekovce, municipality of Novo Brdo in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), to mark the holiday of Orthodox Christmas on Wednesday.

Police have boosted their presence throughout Kosovo in preparation for the main religious holiday of the Serbian minority.

Ice thrown at Serbian Pilgrims in Gjakova

Kosovo police arrested two members of the nationalist Vetevendosje Movement for throwing ice at a bus carrying pilgrims to Serbian Orthodox ceremonies in the western town of Gjakova.

"Fight against Kosovo's independence continues"

ZVECAN -- Marko Djuric has said that Serbia "will continue to fight against the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo by all means at the state's disposal."...

BELGRADE - The funds allocated by the Serbian government were used in Kosovo and Metohija (KiM) in the past eight months to build 25 houses and four buildings with more than 40 housing units and to complete 20 projects of repair and construction of local roads, Marko Djuric, director of the Serbian government's Office for KiM, said on Monday.