Kosovo

BUDAPEST - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday in Budapest Hungary would vote against admissions of the so-called Kosovo to European organisations such as the Council of Europe and the EU.

BUDAPEST - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday in Budapest there were three red lines for Serbia when it comes to the situation in Kosovo-Metohija.

BUDAPEST - Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said on Tuesday in Budapest his country would vote against Kosovo's membership in European bodies.

In an article analyzing the situation in the Western Balkans, titled "Europe needs to do more", the Guardian states that in December "local disputes" led to the installation of barricades in the north of Kosovo, which is mainly inhabited by Serbs.

BELGRADE - In the latest rankings published by the US-based Global Firepower website, Serbia is placed 58th out of 145 countries, ranking higher than any other country in the region in terms of military strength.

Compared to the previous rankings, Serbia has moved up from the 61st position.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Monday KFOR's negative response to Serbia's request for a return of its security forces to Kosovo-Metohija was a political decision and that over 300 ethnically motivated attacks against Serbs in the province were not seen by KFOR as threats to peace and stability.

DUBAI - Commenting on KFOR's negative response to Serbia's request for a return of its security forces to Kosovo-Metohija, Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said that "what KFOR says is one thing and the reality is another thing," and noted that the reality was that Serbs were not safe in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday KFOR had given a negative response to Serbia's request for a return of its army and police troops to Kosovo-Metohija, and noted that the response had "accidentally" been delivered on Orthodox Christmas Eve.

The Albanian, who wounded two Serbs with an automatic weapon in the Kosovo village of Gotovusa, has been arrested, "Kurir" reported. The suspect has the initials A.K and is 33 years old.

Yesterday, an 11-year-old boy and a 21-year-old youth were injured in the village of Gotovusa near the town of Shterpce by a passing car. Both were taken to hospital with moderate injuries.

STRPCE- Kosovo Serbs blocked a regional road between Strpce and Urosevac on Friday in protest against a drive-by shooting and wounding of two Serb youths earlier in the day, Tanjug's correspondent on the ground reports.